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Who decides when parliament sits and what happens if it doesn't?

  • Written by: Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
Who decides when parliament sits and what happens if it doesn't?Mick Tsikas/AAP

Complaints have been ringing out about how few days the federal parliament is proposed to sit in the first half of next year.

The parliamentary sitting calendar for 2022 has just been released. This includes ten days of sittings in the first three months of the year.

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