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  • Points of Order: Meeting procedure in Australia and the UK – free/open source e-book

    09 February 2021 | parliamentary procedure meeting procedure | Comment

    Points of Order

    Meeting procedure in Australia and the UK

    This book is about meeting procedure in Australia, with rough applicability to countries with similar procedures, such as the UK, from where Australian meeting procedure originates, and other Commonwealth countries.

    This book takes a descriptive,… »

  • Rules of order rant: ‘That the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question’

    14 September 2019 (updated 14 September 2019) | parliamentary procedure meeting procedure | Comment

    In traditional Australian and UK meeting procedure, a curious procedure takes place when an amendment is proposed to omit words from a motion, including to omit words and substitute other words. Traditionally, the question proposed from the Chair, in either case, is:

    That the words

    … »
  • Rules of order rant: Prior amendments

    12 September 2019 | parliamentary procedure meeting procedure | Comment

    In Australian and UK meeting procedure, there is a rule relating to the order in which amendments may be moved, known as the ‘prior amendment’ rule. Citrine's The ABC of Chairmanship describes this as follows:

    when an amendment has been moved to alter the latter

    … »
  • Model Standing Orders (Australia/UK meeting procedure)

    19 May 2018 (updated 14 September 2019) | parliamentary procedure meeting procedure | Comment

    Some model Standing Orders for general meetings, committee meetings and so on of organisations using Australia/UK meeting procedure. Based on John Rigg's How to Conduct a Meeting: Standing Orders and Rules of Debate, and the Standing Orders of MUMUS Inc.

    Licensed under the Creative… »

  • Australian (and UK) meeting procedure reference books

    06 September 2017 (updated 22 February 2021) | parliamentary procedure meeting procedure | Comment

    Sadly, unlike in America, where Robert's Rules is all but synonymous with meeting procedure, the situation in the UK, and hence in Australia, is far more complex. As such, I've compiled a list of relevant reference works on meeting procedure here, based on Appendix 6… »

  • This day six months: The day that never comes

    04 June 2017 | parliamentary procedure meeting procedure parliament house of lords | Comment

    A curious procedure used in Wesminister parliaments is the so-called ‘six months’ (or ‘three months’) amendment, which provides a method for opposing a reading of a bill by moving an amendment to the motion (e.g. ‘That the bill be now read a second time’) to… »

  • The curious history of the previous question

    26 March 2017 | parliamentary procedure meeting procedure parliament congress | Comment

    While parliamentary procedure is generally very similar between American and British/Commonwealth parliaments and meetings, one curious difference arises in the notion of the ‘previous question’. While such a notion exists both sides of the Atlantic, everything from the form to the function appears to be… »

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