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Lifecycle of Parliamentary Documents: Australia
Public Information Office and the Parliamentary Education Office.[1] The Department's Corporate Plan for 2021-22 explains that it publishes "the Senate's records, and produce[s] an array of information resources so that people may understand and engage in its work." [2] The roles and responsibilities of the different offices related to parliamentary documents and other information include the following: [3]
- Clerk's Office: The relevant duties of this office include the "production, amendment and updating of Odgers' Australian Senate Practice," and the "production and dissemination of material relating to the work of the Senate and its committees to the widest possible audience."
- Table Office:
- provision of procedural and programming advice and documentation
- production of the official record of Senate proceedings (Journals of the Senate)
- production of the record of all business before the Senate (Notice Paper)
- production of the daily Order of Business (the Red)
- processing of all legislation considered by the Senate
- provision of an inquiry and distribution service covering all documentation and business before the Senate
- arranging custody of all documents tabled in the Senate
- provision of committee secretariats for the Selection of Bills, Appropriations and Staffing and Senate and Joint Publications committees.
- Senate Public Information Office: This office "works with other areas of the department to improve approaches to publishing and sharing information." It is "responsible for web publishing, design and development; video production; graphic design and print; and project liaison." It also "manages the Senate's social media presence, and produces informal records, including the Dynamic Red, The Week Ahead, the Senate Daily Summary, and statistics about the work of the Senate."
- Procedure Office: This office provides a range of services to senators and departmental staff. It has a Research Section with responsibilities that include publishing information about the Senate online as well as in books and brochures, and maintaining a procedural information resource center. The office also provides legislative drafting services, principally to non-government senators.
- Parliamentary Education Office: This office is jointly funded by the departments of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It "delivers parliamentary education services to teachers, students and other learners across Australia," including through "comprehensive websites covering fundamental concepts such as representation, law-making, the separation of powers and responsible government."
- ↑ Department of the Senate Organisational Chart, Parliament of Australia, https://perma.cc/JU9U-2YWG.
- ↑ Department of the Senate Corporate Plan 2021-22 (2021), https://perma.cc/8M62-KCZJ.
- ↑ Department of the Senate: The Clerk and Other Offices, Parliament of Australia, https://perma.cc/6KME-JQCE. See also Department of the Senate Annual Report 2020-21, at 28–68 (2021), https://perma.cc/MCQ3-J2XA.
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