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Parliamentary Committees in the Western Australian Parliament: An Overview of Their Evolution, Functions and Features

Volume 1: 1870–2000

Harry C. J. Phillips


Full version Full version PDF 2.9MB

Preface, Acknowledgements and Table of Contents Preface PDF 227KB

Chapter 1: Parliamentary Committees: An Introduction Chapter 1 PDF 34KB

Chapter 2: Committees and the Rejection of Responsible Government (1870–1875 with Governors Weld and Robinson) Chapter 2 PDF 24KB

Chapter 3: Select Committees in the Representative Government to Responsible Government Phase (1874–1889) Chapter 3 PDF 260KB

Chapter 4: The Colonial Forrest Era of Responsible Government and Bicameralism (1890–1900) Chapter 4 PDF 310KB

Chapter 5: Joint Select Committees in the Forrest Era of Responsible Government 1890–1900 Chapter 5 PDF 295KB

Chapter 6: Statehood to Secession Chapter 6 PDF 503KB

Chapter 7: Parliamentary Committees in Decline and Quests for Parliamentary Advisory Committees and Standing Committees (1940s–1960s) Chapter 7 PDF 310KB

Chapter 8: Legislative Assembly: Public Accounts Standing Committees (1971 onwards) and Inquiry into the Parliamentary Committee System (1973) Chapter 8 PDF 291KB

Chapter 9: Legislative Council: Standing Committee on State Government Agencies and Inquiry into a Legislative Council Committee System (1980 onwards) Chapter 9 PDF 378KB

Chapter 10: The Changing Patterns of Select Committees Chapter 10 PDF 602KB

Chapter 11: Standing Committee Expansion (from December 1989) Chapter 11 PDF 460KB

Chapter 12: The 1990s WA Inc. Royal Commission and the Commission on Government Years and the Impact on Parliamentary Committees Chapter 12 PDF 478KB

Appendix A: Legislative Council Select Committee Reports 1870–2000 Appendix A PDF 207KB

Appendix B: Legislative Assembly Select Committee Reports 1870–2000 Appendix B PDF 193KB

Appendix C: Joint Select Committees of both Houses 1870–2000 Appendix C PDF 107KB

Appendix D: Reports of Standing Committees in the Legislative Council 1870–2000 Appendix D PDF 177KB

Appendix E: Reports of Standing Committees in the Legislative Assembly 1870–2000 Appendix E PDF 163KB

Appendix F: Reports of Joint Standing Committees of the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council 1870–2000 Appendix F PDF 131KB

Appendix G: Standing Orders of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly (1891) Appendix G PDF 168KB

Selected Bibliography Selected Bibliography PDF 155KB

 


Volume 2: 2001–2021

Harry C. J. Phillips, Niamh Corbett

Full version PDF 93.6MB

Preface, Acknowledgements, Explanatory notes and Table of contents PDF 616KB

Chapter 1: Committees in Western Australia: Setting the scene Chapter 1 PDF 4.65MB

Chapter 2: Establishing a modern committee system Chapter 2 PDF 905KB

Chapter 3: Committees in the thirty‐sixth Parliament (2001–2005) Chapter 3 PDF 5.66MB

Chapter 4: Committees in the thirty‐seventh Parliament (2005–2008) Chapter 4 PDF 11.4MB

Chapter 5: Committees in the thirty‐eighth Parliament (2008–2012) Chapter 5 PDF 11MB

Chapter 6: Committees in the thirty‐ninth Parliament (2013–2017) Chapter 6 PDF 17.7MB

Chapter 7: Committees in the fortieth Parliament (2017–2021) Chapter 7 PDF 37.5MB

Chapter 8: Committee effectiveness Chapter 8 PDF 4.35MB

Chapter 9: Reflections on committee service Chapter 9 PDF 844KB

Appendices: Appendices PDF 2.2MB