Select committees and their role in keeping Parliament relevant: do New Zealand select committees make a difference?

Paper presented to the Australasian Study of Parliament Group National Conference: 14-16 July 2000 Customs House and Queensland Parliament Brisbane, Qld, Australia.

Also published in Australasian Parliamentary Review, Spring 2001, Vol. 16(2), 140–50.

Public Perceptions of the New Zealand Parliament (1999)

This paper was initially presented to the the Australasian Study of Parliament Group 1999 National Conference at the New South Wales Parliament. This was subsequently published in volume 14 of Legislative Studies (now rebranded as the Australasian Parliamentary Review) and republished in the NZ Parliament and Business Trust Information Bulletin 2000 edition 3.

What the Australian Senate can learn from NZ's House of Representatives

This paper, presented to the 1998 Australasian Political Studies Association conference in Christchurch, explores how the changes to the New Zealand Parliament’s Standing Orders made in preparation for the move to proportional representation could provide lessons for Australia.