AuSenate: The Senate Public Information Office

AuSenate is the official YouTube channel of the Australian federal Senate, the channel is managed by the Senate Public Information Office (SPIO) and the Department of the Senate. It mainly uploads Senate Question Time full-length videos, which are also broadcast by the ABC.
== Background ==
The Australian Senate is the upper house of the Australian parliament, it's construction and roles are explained in the first chapter of the Australian constitution. The Senate has 76 seats, with 12 elected for each state no matter the population of each state and 2 elected from each self-governing internal territory.
The Senate has equal power to the lower house of representatives, but is unable to create or amend bills concerning money, it can only reject or accept said bills, this is unique to Australia when compared to other Westminster systems, but is comparable to the U.S. Senate. The Senate uses the single transferable vote to elect members, and has done since 1948. Since 1981, the government has only maintained a majority in the Senate from 2005 to 2007, with negotiations with other parities and independents generally being required to pass laws.
The current 47th Parliament of Australia has Labor party Senators Sue Lines as President, Foreign minister Penny Wong as Leader of the Government in the Senate, Manager of Government Business Katy Gallagher, with Liberal party leader of the opposition Simon Birmingham and manager of the opposition business Anne Ruston.
== Content ==
The first video was uploaded to the channel on 29 July 2020, titled Bushfire condolences, it has 17 views and no other engagement as of 10 March 2024https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALehmPzWNY. The first Senate Question Time uploaded was the second video ever uploaded to the channel, being Senate Question Time, 5 February 2020https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNzpQdevwlM. The most popular video on AuSenate as of 10 March 2024 is Senate Question Time, 18 October 2023 with over 9,700 viewshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbMzSDQ0Bs. This specific question time was important as several senators suggested a Matter of Urgency regarding Israel's invasion of Gaza on 7 October 2023, in which it was suggested that the Senate state it's opinion condemning Israel's invasion of Gaze, however the division ended with the question being negatived with 41 Noes to 11 Ayeshttps://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansards/27134/&sid=0222.
=== Senate Discovery ===
Senate Discovery was a series created by the SPIO summarising political actions and Senate decisions, it was uploaded from mid 2020 to mid 2023https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdTZf14qIgp8FoZecOTVHdGf4fPHCPbe5.
=== 60 seconds in the Senate ===
60 seconds in the Senate is a documentary YouTube Shorts series, the first and currently only video in the series was uploaded on 1 February 2024, it focused on the sandglasses used by the Senate to time divisionshttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/6ULCC1Mc_Y8.
== References ==
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