If a petition has been signed by or more persons, the responsible Minister is required to respond within 35 calendar days after receipt of the petition in the House.
The Minister's response is announced in the House and published on the Parliament's website — Standing Order Paper petitions with 10, or more signatures and ePetitions with 20, or more signatures are set down for a debate in the House, which takes place at 4. If there is more than one petition listed for debate, they are listed in the order they are presented and set down in the Business Paper. There is no requirement for the Member who lodged the petition to speak during the debate.
Up to six Members may speak on a petition for a maximum of 30 minutes in total, although there may be extra speakers by leave of the House. There are several rules that petitions must meet to be approved.
Information about the rules for petitions can be found on the rules page. You are able to request another petition, but the original petition cannot be edited and resubmitted.
Read the rules for more information. You may contact the Committee secretariat if you still have questions. Creating a petition. You may submit another petition if it is different to one that you have submitted before, or if it is another attempt at a petition that was not approved. You can create a petition via the online form. You can sign a petition via the petitions list. Any resident or citizen of Australia except a Member of Parliament can create or sign a petition.
Please read the terms and conditions to find out more. Your e-petition is probably waiting for the Petitions Committee to approve it. Before your e-petition is published and can collect signatures, the Committee must make sure that your petition meets the rules.
The Petitions Committee meets regularly to approve petitions, but there can sometimes be a delay between receiving and publishing your petition. Contact the Committee secretariat if you would like to know when the Committee is due to meet to consider your petition. After you have submitted your petition request it cannot be changed. Please contact the Committee secretariat if you have concerns about the petition you have submitted.
Tip: Write your petition in another document and have someone check before you submit it. This will help you to avoid mistakes. There is no time limit for collecting signatures on a paper petition.
Signatures on paper petitions are collected before the petition is given to the Committee for approval. Only one, but it can have more. Months later, the government said it would try to change the relevant EU law so the tax could be removed. Many retailers also cut costs on sanitary products to shoulder the cost of the tax themselves.
Ms Coryton says she did not expect her petition to be so popular, but believes it was helpful in allowing large numbers of people to document their desire for change. However, she's keen to stress while the petition helped attract attention, there were many more factors behind the campaign's success. Another reason petitions can work is by raising awareness, says Bettina Siegel, a US blogger who led three petitions given "confirmed victory" status by Change.
Ms Siegel is known for her campaign to stop the use of "pink slime" lean beef trimmings made from fatty beef carcass off-cuts in US school lunches, and also petitioned to block a McDonald's infomercial from local schools. However, she adds: "A business is likely to be more responsive because they have a direct financial interest in pleasing their customers. I think it's more complicated when you're petitioning a government. It's fair to say that not all of the 5.
But, people signing petitions for causes they think are unlikely to win is nothing new. Instead, many signed petitions "out of a sense of duty and self-expression" and to "discharge their own personal sense of responsibility". They "hope it will draw attention [to the issue] and play a part in shifting the dynamic", he says. He points to a petition against slavery in the colonies - which was not abolished until - as an example of a petition that supporters would have signed without expecting any immediate change.
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