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Quick Search

Enter your words in the search box.  By default  this will search the current year, and both the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. 

Advanced Search

Use the Advance Search if you want to find a speech by a particular member of parliament, and/or on a particular date, and/or by particular type of activity (eg second reading speech)

If you want to select more than one item in a list use your control keys to select the items.

If you want to know what the different "activity types" mean see the activities help information

Searching Tips

All the words you put in the search box will be used (unless you specify the OR option in Advance Search) 

The OR option searches for any of the words, ie not every word has to be present in the results.   

To find a specific phrase use quotation marks eg "Westgate Bridge"

Use the "~" symbol to search for variations of a word. For example type "~consult" to find consult, consulting, consultant, consultants etc.

Use a space rather than a comma for large numbers eg 10 000 not 10,000.  This is important when searching for Questions on Notice that can exceed 9999 in a year

Upper or lower case doesn't matter eg "Premier" will give the same results as "premier"

More information on how to search is available here   How to Search Hansard (470 KB)

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