Talk:President of the Senate (Australia)

Arrangements with the Senate presidency
Rrius has asked for a citation for the following sentence that I wrote: "Following the controversy with the 1996 election of ALP turned Independent Senator Mal Colston as Deputy President of the Senate, the major parties have come to an understanding that a Government Senator takes the Senate Presidency while the Deputy Presidency goes to an Opposition Senator."

As I said in the edit summary this is how I remembered it at the time. I remembered that Senator John Faulkner the then ALP Opposition Senate Leader expressing his outrage in the Senate over the Coalition support for Senator Mal Colston as Deputy Senate President and he said that Government party gets the Senate presidency and the Opposition party gets the Deputy presidency.

If it is a citation that Rrius wants I would suggest that he looks up Hansard for the Senate on August 20 1996, the day that particular event happened and he would find that Senator Faulkner did make such a statement over who gets the presidency and the deputy presidency of the Senate.

Also if one notices that since Senator Colston relinquished the Deputy presidency, the President has always been a Government Senator and the Deputy President is an Opposition Senator. The Shadow Treasurer (talk) 22:36, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

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If the official title is "President of the Senate", why is this page not at President of the Senate (Australia)? Hack (talk) 08:39, 28 February 2015 (UTC)