(1) Constitutional expert, Professor Anne Twomey, told Guardian Australia prorogation terminates the existing session of parliament which wipes clean the notice paper.
(2) Although prorogation technically terminates the progress of bills, under Senate standing orders they can be reintroduced so the government can pick up where it left off on the ABCC bill and registered organisations bill.
(3) That advice said it was the attorney general’s opinion prorogation was “soundly based in constitutional law and well-supported by a large and uniform body of constitutional precedents”.
(4) Labor has raised concerns that prorogation of parliament may interfere with the work of 70 ongoing Senate inquiries and suggested it could filibuster extra sittings of parliament as members have a right of reply to the governor general’s speech which open the new session of parliament.
(5) Government whips in both houses have to reach deals on which parts of the government programme, bill by bill, can reach the statute book before the prorogation of parliament and the election.
(6) Prorogation and recall of parliament has occurred 28 times since federation but not once since 1977.
(7) University of Queensland’s Professor Graeme Orr said prorogation was “abnormal but legal” and a court case challenging the move was very unlikely.
(8) Brandis included a research paper under his signature which showed prorogation and recall of parliament for an earlier sitting had occurred 28 times since federation.
(9) Given that that concludes the substantive work of the committee in this parliament, and that the committee has no further formal meetings scheduled before the prorogation of parliament, the committee decided that there was therefore no need for it to elect a new chairman for the remaining few weeks.
(10) Yesterday, the government abandoned much of its existing legislative programme as it scrambled to get on to a full election footing by tomorrow's prorogation.
(11) The paper noted although prorogation wipes bills from the notice paper, standing orders allowed them to be restored and “cleansing the notice paper has no effect” on the ability to use bills as a double-dissolution trigger.
Prorogue
Definition:
(v. t.) To protract; to prolong; to extend.
(v. t.) To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage.
(v. t.) To end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business.
Example Sentences:
(1) Canberra, November 11 In a move that has stunned Australia, the Labor Prime Minister, Mr Gough Whitlam, was today dismissed from office and Parliament prorogued by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr.
(2) The governor general did so in a proclamation on Monday, proroguing parliament on 15 April for a new session to begin on 18 April.
(3) Time and again, the then leader of the house, Andrew Lansley, was forced to explain why there wasn’t much government business going on ; his nadir came when he had to find a reason, other than inactivity, why the Commons was being prorogued a week earlier than usual at Easter.
(4) At the close of Thursday's session – the last of this parliament – the house will be prorogued.
(5) The move relies on power in section 5 of the constitution for the governor general, which says he or she can set sessions of the parliament when he or she wants by proroguing parliament.
(6) When the opposition united once more to demand the release of paperwork on the subject, Harper refused … and then persuaded the governor general to prorogue parliament again.
(7) In one instance from April 1914 quoted at length in paper, the governor general explained he had prorogued parliament for parliament “to resume your deliberations earlier than usual” and to “expedite the despatch of urgent public business” including legislation that failed to pass in earlier sessions.
(8) April 6-8 The "wash-up" period, in which the government rushes through a final few bills before parliament is prorogued, takes place.
(9) As it stands, Mr Fraser was voted out by the Lower House in its last act before being prorogued.
(10) March 17 John Major announces parliament will be prorogued, aparently burying Downey report until after general election.
(11) Before parliament was officially prorogued on Monday it targeted cost of living concerns with an announcement that it would provide an extra $450m for before- and after-school care services to provide new places or new care programs.
(12) The paper said the governor general must exercise the power to prorogue parliament on advice of the prime minister, and there was “no known suggestion” of a reserve power to reject that advice.