Articles on the Council
Articles published from 2019 to 2025
Commemorating the Bicentenary of the New South Wales Legislative Council
Author: Office of the Black Rod
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2025
Online publication and the accessibility of parliamentary information
Going viral: Managing inquiries with thousands of submissions and substantial public interest
Author: Fujiwara, S; Halligan, J and McKee, K
Source: 2024 ASPG Conference
Publication Year: 2024
Creating a modern parliamentary workplace: a personal reflection on the NSW experience
Author: Blunt, D
Source: Australian Political Studies Association workshop hosted by Deakin University, Melbourne, 8-9 August 2024
Publication Year: 2024
Reflect, celebrate, imagine: commemorating the bicentenary of the New South Wales Legislative Council
Author: Franklin, B
Source: 53rd Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, 8-12 July 2024
Publication Year: 2024
The transparency agenda: How the NSW Legislative Council strengthened its role as a House of Review in the 57th Parliament
How the NSW Legislative Council's Privileges Committee examines matters concerning alleged abuse of freedom of speech and debates A comparative study and look into the future
Author: Mihaljek, K and Arguelles, F
Source: 2023 ASPG Conference
Publication Year: 2023
The power to compel the attendance of witnesses and the giving of evidence before committees – lessons from the NSW Legislative Council
Postscripts to an extraordinary Parliament and a question for colleagues
Author: Blunt, D
Source: 52nd Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference - Honiara, Solomon Islands
Publication Year: 2023
Burgundy Walls The Fountain Court and the Importance of public spaces and exhibitions for engagement
Back to the future: Charting the evolution of the NSW Legislative Council Regulation Committee
Author: Ohnesorge, S and Frappell, S
Source: ANZACATT 2023
Publication Year: 2023
Examination, publication and use of Cabinet Documents by Legislative Council committees
Parliamentary privilege - Developments since 2019 and current issues
Practice makes perfect? (Or at least a little bit better.) Sessional orders as a vehicle for procedural reform in the New South Wales Legislative Council
Upholding and Strengthening Parliament's Constitutional Functions: The Election of a New President of the NSW Legislative Council in 2021 - A Clerk's Eye View of Proceedings
Author: Blunt, D
Source: 51st Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference - Melbourne Victoria
Publication Year: 2022
The Shake-Up - New rules in play for the NSW Legislative Council
Parliamentary Privilege in New South Wales
Author: Frappell, S
Source: 38th Annual course of the International Association of Law Libraries on Law Down Under. Australia's Legal Landscape
Publication Year: 2019
Parliamentary Privilege in Practice
Author: Blunt, D
Source: Seminar on Practice, Procedure and the Law of Parliament
Publication Year: 2019
Articles published from 2016 to 2018
Orders for Papers and Parliamentary Committees An update from the New South Wales Legislative Council
Author: Blunt, D
Source: 49th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference - Wellington, New Zealand
Publication Year: 2018
Evading Scrutiny: Orders for Papers and Access to Cabinet Information by the New South Wales Legislative Council (2018) 29 PLR 118
Author: Ohnesorge, S and Duffy, B
Source: Public Law Review
Publication Year: 2018
Introduction of the Aboriginal Languages Bill 2017
Author: Ajaka, J
Source: 49th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference - Wellington, New Zealand
Publication Year: 2018
The Development of Legislative Institutions in NSW 1823-1843
Author: Clune, D
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2018
1843: The year it all began
Author: Clune, D
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2018
Parliamentary information and the challenges (and opportunities) of technology
Parliamentary information and parliamentary privilege in the age of cloud computing
Author: Blunt, D
Source: 53rd General Meeting of the Society of Clerks-at-the-table (SOCATT)
Publication Year: 2017
The accountability of statutory bodies to Parliament: The case of Greyhound Racing NSW
Author: Blunt, D
Source: 48th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference
Publication Year: 2017
Engaging the disengaged: Why Parliamentary education and community engagement is core business
Author: Ajaka, J
Source: 48th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference
Publication Year: 2017
Parliamentary privilege and searches by investigatory agencies
The role of clerks in identifying and exercising best practice in parliamentary procedure
No longer strangers in the House: Brazil's e-Democracy project to engage the public with business before the House
Making Honey in the Bearpit: Parliament and its Impact on Policymaking
Author: Reynolds, S
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review (Spring/Summer) 2016
Publication Year: 2016
The NSW Legislative Council's Oral History Project
Author: Blunt, D and Stedman, A
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review 2016
Publication Year: 2016
Preserving the past preparing for the future
Author: Harwin, The Hon. D and Blunt, D
Source: 47th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference
Publication Year: 2016
Parliamentary privilege: New South Wales still on the cutting edge
Author: Blunt, D; Mignacca, V and Ohnesorge, S
Source: Legalwise Seminar 2016
Publication Year: 2016
Out of step? The New South Wales Parliamentary Evidence Act 1901 (2016) 27 PLR 37
Author: Duffy, B and Ohnesorge, S
Source: Public Law Review
Publication Year: 2016
Support for vulnerable witnesses
Articles published from 2012 to 2015
A Case for a Parliamentary Privileges Act for New South Wales
Author: Frappell, S
Source: Australasian Study of Parliamentary Group Review
Publication Year: 2015
Asserting the inquiry power: parliamentary privilege trumps statutory secrecy in New South Wales
Author: Reynolds, S; Griffith, S and Higgins, T
Source: 46th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference 2015
Publication Year: 2015
Parliamentary Sovereignty and Parliamentary Privilege
Cane Toads, Notices of Motion and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The challenge of change: A possible new approach for the independent legal arbiter in assessing orders for papers?
You have committed a great offence and have but a weak answer to make for yourself: When clerks make mistakes
Author: Reynolds, S
Source: Journal of the Clerks-at-the-Table, The Table, Vol
Publication Year: 2014
Parliamentary speech and the locations of decision making
Author: Duffy, B and Blunt, D
Source: 45th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference
Publication Year: 2014
Should upper houses have ministers?
Author: Young, J
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2014
Committee Review of Executive Decisions: Rubber Stamp or Game Changer?
The Parliament of New South Wales and the Independent Commission Against Corruption: Recent interactions on matters of privilege and future issues
Author: Harwin, The Hon D.
Source: ASPG Annual Conference 2013
Publication Year: 2013
Through the lens of accountability: referral of inquiries by ministers to upper house committees
Author: Thompson, M
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review 2013
Publication Year: 2013
Unproclaimed legislation - The Delegation of Legislative Power to the Executive
Author: Stedman, A
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2013
A Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for New South Wales?
Author: Blunt, D
Source: 44th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference
Publication Year: 2013
Parliamentary traditions, innovation and the great principles of English parliamentary law
Author: Blunt, D
Source: ANZACATT Professional Development Seminar paper
Publication Year: 2013
Prorogation and Principle; The Gentrader Inquiry, Government accountability and the shutdown of Parliament
Author: McMichael, T
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2012
How far can they go: committee powers outside of inquiries
Author: McMichael, T
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2012
Three unusual and dramatic recent sitting days in the New South Wales Legislative Council and the impact of the introduction of time limits on debate on government legislation in August 2011
Author: Blunt, D
Source: 43rd Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference
Publication Year: 2012
NSW Legislative Council Committees: current trends
Author: Harwin, The Hon. D.
Source: 43rd Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference
Publication Year: 2012
Articles published from 2003 to 2011
Social media, community engagement and perceptions of parliament: a case study from the NSW Legislative Council
Author: Duffy, B. and Foley, M.
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2011
David, Goliath and the stone of judicial review: the shield of parliamentary privilege in Stewart v Ronalds
Author: Moore, J
Source: Australasian Study of Parliamentary Group Review
Publication Year: 2011
The tablecloth and the long bell: media perceptions of the NSW Legislative Council 1999–2009
Author: Reynolds, S.
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2011
Contemporary and future challenges for procedural and administrative reform
Author: Frappell, S. and Seal-Pollard, J.
Source: ANZACATT Professional Development Seminar paper
Publication Year: 2011
Ensuring strong parliaments - support through effective staff development and training
Author: Blunt,D.
Source: ANZACATT Professional Development Seminar paper
Publication Year: 2010
The Power of the New South Wales Legislative Council to Order the Production of State Papers: Revisiting the Egan Decisions Ten Years On
Author: Lovelock, L.
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2009
The Declining Membership of the NSW Legislative Council Cross Bench and its Implications for Responsible Government
Author: Lovelock, L.
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2009
Members’ documents, parliamentary privilege and search warrants
Author: Frappell, S.
Source: ANZACATT Professional Development Seminar paper
Publication Year: 2009
Orders for Papers and Cabinet Confidentiality post Egan v Chadwick
Author: Duffy, B.
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2006
Responsible Government: Ministerial responsibility and motions of ‘censure’/ ‘no confidence’
Author: Blunt, D.
Source: Australasian Parliamentary Review
Publication Year: 2004
Innovative committee methods: Case studies from two Parliaments
Author: Duffy, B and Thompson, M
Source: Department of the Legislative Council
Publication Year: 2003