The Victorian government is introducing a pandemic management bill that will structure its ongoing and future response to pandemics. According to the draft made public today, the bill gives the ...

A parliamentary committee has recommended government look into how to improve oversight of animal welfare.

South Africa’s Parliament does not suffer from a lack of attempts at effective oversight. There are audits conducted, oversight visits carried out, and thousands of questions being asked. On paper, it ...

Morocco’s newly elected House of Representatives Speaker, Ahmed Touizi, on Tuesday called for stronger ties between parliament and society, arguing that the quality of lawmakers’ constitutional work ...

At a time of increasing regional tensions, several states have taken extraordinary steps to increase funding for their militaries, bypassing regular budgeting procedures. For example, shortly after ...

African parliaments have been urged to strengthen their oversight of public finances through well-resourced and independent Parliamentary Budget Offices (PBOs) as the continent confronts rising debt ...

Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has accused First Deputy Speaker Bernard Ahiafor of using parliamentary procedures to frustrate the Minority's constitutional oversight role, following a ...

Parliamentary oversight and democratic scrutiny constitute the mechanisms by which elected legislatures hold executive bodies, public institutions and policymakers to account. This interplay ensures ...

ISLAMABAD: President of the Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) of the National Assembly, MNA Syeda Nosheen Iftikhar, has stressed the need to strengthen parliamentarians’ capacity to contribute more ...

The constitution gives parliament authority to oversee the exercise of public power and hold the executive accountable. GCIS South Africa has entered new territory with a government of national unity ...