Members, staff, and the Office of the Legislative Assembly regularly publish reports and other documents. Click the links below to access PDF copies of them. This page does not include corporate policies - you can access those on the policies page.
If you are having trouble accessing a document, please email ola@parliament.act.gov.au.
Annual reports
These are annual reports of the Office of the Legislative Assembly, the parliamentary support agency.
An erratum or corrigendum corrects mistakes in an annual reports, an addendum adds missing information. The corrections or additions to relevant reports are reflected in the report PDF. We have kept the errata, corrigenda, and addenda below for transparency and posterity.
- 2024-2025 annual report (
PDF 5.5MB) and corrigendum (
PDF 220KB) - 2023-2024 annual report (
PDF 5.6MB) - 2022-2023 annual report (
PDF 6.3MB) - 2021-2022 annual report (
PDF 2.9MB) - 2020-2021 annual report (
PDF 5.3MB) - 2019-2020 annual report (
PDF 3.4MB) - 2018-2019 annual report (
PDF 2.6MB) and corrigendum (
PDF 719.5KB) - 2017-2018 annual report (
PDF 4.8MB) - 2016-2017 annual report (
PDF 4.2MB) - 2015-2016 annual report (
PDF 12.8MB) - 2014-2015 annual report (
PDF 11.8MB) - 2013-2014 annual report(
PDF 3.4MB) and addendum (
PDF 847.2KB)
- 2011-2012 annual report (
PDF 3.7MB) and erratum (
PDF 109.3KB) - 2010-2011 annual report (
PDF 8.0MB) and erratum (
PDF 864.0KB) - 2009-2010 annual report (
PDF 5.0MB) and erratum (
PDF 130.7KB) - 2008-2009 annual report (
PDF 5.7MB) and erratum(
PDF 69KB) - 2007-2008 annual report (
PDF 1.2MB) - 2006-2007 annual report (
PDF 1.6MB) - 2005-2006 annual report (
PDF 537.2KB) - 2004-2005 annual report (
PDF 3.0MB) - 2003-2004 annual report (
PDF 841.4KB) and financial statements (
PDF 2.2MB) - 2002-2003 annual report (
PDF 1.2MB) - 2001-2002 annual report (
PDF 205.4KB)
Strategic plans
- Office of the Legislative Assembly strategic plan 2022-2025 (
PDF 249.2KB) - Office of the Legislative Assembly strategic plan 2019-2021(
PDF 3.2MB)
Exposure drafts
Benchmarking reports
The Assembly is regularly assessed against two international standards for good government: the Latimer House Principles on the Three Branches of Government
, and the Recommended Benchmarks for Democratic Legislatures
, both developed by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
- Democratic Legislatures Benchmarks report 2019 (
PDF 623.1KB) - Parliamentary performance report card 2019 (
PDF 102.3KB) - Administration and Procedure committee inquiry into the 2019 report (
PDF 4.2MB) - Latimer House Principles report 2019 (
PDF 665.7KB) - Administration and Procedure committee inquiry into the 2015 report (
PDF 200.8KB) - Latimer House Principles report 2015 (
PDF 498.1KB) - Latimer House Principles report 2011 (
PDF 3.7MB) - Administration and Procedure committee inquiry into Latimer House Principles report 2009 (
PDF 3.72MB) - Report into how to assess and evaluate government in the ACT against the Latimer House Principles (
PDF 319.1KB)
Statistics
- The long and the short of it (
PDF 282)
2025 - A regularly updated collection of statistics about the Assembly - The long and the short of it (
PDF 289)
2024 - A regularly updated collection of statistics about the Assembly - The long and the short of it (
PDF 286.4)
2023 - A regularly updated collection of statistics about the Assembly - Almost 30 Years (
PDF 571.2KB)
2019 - A look back at notable moments in the Assembly's history
Conference papers
- (2025) The silent reformers: The role of Clerks in strengthening and transforming parliament (
PDF 477KB)
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PPT 14,973KB) - (2025) Parliamentary privilege and judicial scrutiny: The role of the Speaker as amicus curiae in tendered document disputes (
PDF 223KB) - (2024) Embracing or exploring the contrasts for meaningful gender outcomes in parliaments (
PDF 1.0MB) - (2023) Imposition of a WHS prohibition notice on the ACT Legislative Assembly (
PDF 276.6KB) - (2022) Questioning question time: Can it be improved to strengthen and revitalise democracy (
PPT 1.1MB) - (2021) Laws in the time of corona: Optimising parliamentary functions during long-term crises (
PDF 378.0KB) - (2019) Engaging citizens through co-design and deliberative engagements (
PDF 679.2KB) - (2019) Making the grade: Assessment against the updated CPA benchmarks for democratic legislatures (
PDF 261KB) - (2019) Keeping the legislature modern: The additions of the Integrity Commissioner as an officer of the Assembly (
PDF 332KB) - (2018) You can't be what you can't see: Women in the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory (
PDF 349KB) - (2018) More than just points of order: The role of speaker in a small legislature (
PDF 301.5KB) - (2017) Decoding the code: Applying the CPA code of conduct benchmarks to the Legislative Assembly for the ACT (
PDF 902.2KB)
- (2016) Ethical governance: Accountability, transparency, and responsibility in parliaments (
PDF 902.5KB) - (2015) Officers of the Legislative Assembly (
PDF 673.9KB) - (2015) Parliament and the numbers (
PDF 669.9KB) - (2014) A matter of protocol: Maintaining the independence of the budget process for the Office of the ACT Legislative Assembly (
PDF 904KB) - (2014) Parliamentary integrity: An oxymoron? (
PDF 304.7KB) - (2013) Ten measures of a healthy parliament (
PDF 1.3MB) - (2012) Over 21 - How about the keys? Reviewing the ACT Constitution (
PDF 2,894KB) - (2012) Reviewing the Latimer House Principles: The ACT experience (
PDF 220.5KB) - (2012) Enshrining independence: The establishment of the Office of the Legislative Assembly (
PDF 208KB) - (2011) Question time in Australian parliaments (
PDF 169.9KB) - (2010) Enhancing scrutiny in question time: New practices for questions without notice in the ACT Legislative Assembly (
PDF 75.9KB) - (2009) Towards an environmentally sustainable parliamentary building (
PDF 124.9KB) - (2004) Benchmarking and measuring parliament's performance (
PDF 1.5MB)