Journal article
Australian Senate Select Committees: Senate composition, party partisanship and democracy
Social Alternatives, Vol.34(3), pp.18-24
2015
Abstract
Senate committees play a valuable role in the development of policy and the scrutiny of executive government. However, over the past decade Senate committees, and particularly Senate select committees have become increasingly politicised. After each election, as the composition and control of the Senate has changed, Senate majorities have been assembled to establish select committees for partisan political advantage undermining their value to democracy.
Details
- Title
- Australian Senate Select Committees: Senate composition, party partisanship and democracy
- Authors
- Jacqueline Dewar (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
- Publication details
- Social Alternatives, Vol.34(3), pp.18-24
- Publisher
- Social Alternatives
- Date published
- 2015
- ISSN
- 0155-0306; 0155-0306
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2015 Social Alternatives. Reproduced with the permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449211602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
- Research Statement
- false
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