Reforming the Office of Speaker

Laundy Philip , The Office of Speaker (Cassell, 1964) 139.

UK Parliament, ‘Offices and Ceremonies: The Speaker’ (Living Heritage) <http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentwork/offices-and-ceremonies/overview/the-speaker/>.

Laundy , above n 1, 211.

Ibid 22–5.

Ibid 7.

Souter Gavin , Acts of Parliament (Melbourne University Press, 1988) 115–6.

Singleton Gwynneth , Australian Political Institutions (Pearson, 10th ed, 2012) 154.

Andrew Neil , ‘The Australian Federal Speakership: The First Hundred Years and Some Future Directions’ in Macintyre Clement Williams John (eds), Peace, Order and Good Government: State Constitutional and Parliamentary Reform (Wakefield Press, 2003) 280.

Ibid.

Radenbach Steven , ‘Servant of Two Masters? An Exploration of the Speaker's Role in the Australian Commonwealth Parliament’ (PhD thesis, La Trobe University, 1999) 59.

For examples of abortive reform recommendations, see Rozzoli Kevin , Gavel to Gavel: An insider's view of Parliament (UNSW Press, 2006) 194–7.

Wright Bernard (ed), House of Representatives Practice (Department of the House of Representatives, 6th ed 2012), 539.

Snedden Billy Schedvin Bernadette , Billy Snedden: An unlikely Liberal (Macmillan, 1990) 219–24.

Seccombe Mike , ‘Unlike Howard, at least Halvo was True to his Word’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 4 March 1998, 2.

Henderson Gerard , ‘PM's backflip on Speaker reform’, Courier Mail (Brisbane), 9 March 1998, 2.

Armstrong Grahame , ‘Damage Control as Speaker Quits’, The West Australian (Perth), 4 March 1998, 6.

Coorey Phillip , ‘Behaviour hits the bottom line’, Adelaide Advertiser (Adelaide), 1 July 2002, 19.

Atkins Dennis , ‘Proposal to have an impartial speaker’, Courier Mail (Brisbane), 19 March 2004, 2.

Franklin Matthew , ‘Independents secure overhaul of Parliament’, The Australian (Sydney), 7 September 2010, 1.

The Slipper saga is discussed in Singleton , above n 7, 154.

ABC Radio National, ‘Bishop: Gillard's misogyny speech should not have been allowed’, RN Breakfast, 17 September 2013 ( Bishop Bronwyn ) <http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2013/09/bst_20130917_0832.mp3>.

Malone Paul , ‘Tony Smith as Speaker returns order to the Parliament’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 6 February 2016, 2 <http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tony-smith-as-speaker-returns-order-to-the-parliament-20160205-gmmjrh.html>.

Wright , above n 12, 536–40 and Commonwealth of Australia, House of Representatives Standing Orders, (2015) SO 94(a).

Standing Orders, above n 23, SO 94(d).

Ibid SO 94(b).

Laundy , above n 1, 7.

Ibid 108–15. The contrasts in this regard between the speakership in the UK and Australia are discussed in Ward Alan , Parliamentary Government in Australia (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2012) 180–1.

Rozzoli , above n 11, 194–201.

ABC Television, ‘Apathetic Aussies’, Lateline, 11 August 2014 ( O'Neill Margot ).

Trounsen Andrew , ‘Swinburne Uni survey: Politicians seen as selfish, incompetent’, The Australian (Sydney), 14 April 2015, 6.