Do you have statistics about the history of the parliament showing, by year, how many bills were introduced and passed?
Ministers in the House of Representatives
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Ministers seated in the House of Representatives. Ministers sit on the front bench of the government side of the House of Representatives, behind the Prime Minister. Ministers introduce most bills to Parliament.
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Thanks for your great question Mark.
The House of Representatives has put together a very interesting table of statistics about this topic, dating back to 1901. You can find the table by following this link and clicking on ‘General statistics’.
Using this table, you can see that the largest number of bills – proposed laws – passed into law in one year is 264 (in 1992) and the smallest number of bills passed into law in one year is 12 (in 1907). The average number of laws made per year since 1901 is 108.
This table does not list how many bills have been presented to the Senate each year. You can find a record of all the bills passed by the Senate in each Parliament going back to the 31st Parliament (1978-80) on the Australian Parliament House website.