Odgers' Australian Senate Practice

Odgers' Australian Senate Practice is an Australian parliamentary authority published by the Australian Senate. The first edition was published in 1953 edited by James Rowland Odgers, then Usher of the Black Rod and Clerk of Committees and later Clerk of the Australian Senate from 1965 to 1979.[1]

Currently in its fourteenth edition, published in 2016,[2] the text is the comprehensive and authoritative guide to the procedure and practice of the Australian Senate. The equivalent guide in the Australian House of Representatives is House of Representatives Practice.

While Australian parliamentary procedure was originally based heavily on the practice in the House of Commons, over time Odgers' manual has come to be recognised as a stand-alone authority of Australian parliamentary practice. In the current edition of Odgers’, there are no references to Erskine May, virtually no references to British parliamentary procedures, and references to British law only where it has been explicitly adopted, or is likely to be of persuasive value in Australian courts.[3]

Editions

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Edition Year Editor
Australian Senate Practice
1st 1953 James Rowland Odgers
("Usher of the Black Rod and Clerk of Committees")
2nd 1959 James Rowland Odgers
("Clerk Assistant")
3rd 1967 James Rowland Odgers
("Clerk of the Senate")
4th 1972 James Rowland Odgers
("Clerk of the Senate")
5th 1976 James Rowland Odgers
("Clerk of the Senate")
Australian Senate Practice by J.R. Odgers
6th 1991 James Rowland Odgers (published following the death of the author by the Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration (ACT Division))
Odgers' Australian Senate Practice
7th 1995 Harry Evans
("Clerk of the Senate")
8th 1997 Harry Evans
("Clerk of the Senate")
9th 1999 Harry Evans
("Clerk of the Senate")
10th 2001 Harry Evans
("Clerk of the Senate")
11th 2004 Harry Evans
("Clerk of the Senate")
12th 2008 Harry Evans
("Clerk of the Senate")
13th 2012 Harry Evans and
Rosemary Laing ("Clerk of the Senate")
Odgers' Australian Senate Practice: as revised by Harry Evans
14th 2016 Rosemary Laing
("Clerk of the Senate")

References

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  1. ^ Odgers, James Rowland, ed. (1953). "Australian Senate Practice" (PDF) (First ed.). Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  2. ^ Laing, Rosemary, ed. (2016). "Odgers' Australian Senate Practice: as revised by Harry Evans" (PDF) (Fourteenth ed.). Department of the Senate. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  3. ^ https://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/senate/pubs/pops/pop52/20_the_pedigree_of_the_practices.pdf