[Not in current Constitution: nearest equivalent sections are:

5 Sessions of Parliament. Prorogation and dissolution
The Governor-General may appoint such times for holding the sessions of the Parliament as he thinks fit, and may also from time to time, by Proclamation or otherwise, prorogue the Parliament, and may in like manner dissolve the House of Representatives.
Summoning Parliament
After any general election the Parliament shall be summoned to meet not later than thirty days after the day appointed for the return of the writs.
First session
The Parliament shall be summoned to meet not later than six months after the establishment of the Commonwealth.
6 Yearly session of Parliament
There shall be a session of the Parliament once at least in every year, so that twelve months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the Parliament in one session and its first sitting in the next session.] 

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The timing and conduct of sessions of each house of Parliament shall be determined by the standing orders made pursuant to section 50, provided that such standing orders must provide:
(a) That after any general election of members of the house, each house must convene a session not less than 30 days after the date appointed for the declaration of the results of the election; and
(b) That each house must convene a session at least once in each year, so that twelve months does not elapse between the last sitting of the last session and the first sitting of the next session.

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The timing and conduct of sessions of each house of Parliament shall be determined by the standing orders made pursuant to section 50, provided that such standing orders must provide:
(a) That after any general election of members of the house, each house must convene a session not less than 30 days after the date appointed for the declaration of the results of the election; and
(b) That each house must convene a session at least once in each year, so that twelve months does not elapse between the last sitting of the last session and the first sitting of the next session.

6A.1 This is a new section which provides that certain minimum requirements for Parliamentary sittings which are in sections 5 and 6 of the present Constitution must be retained in the Standing Orders. The proposed section 6A uses the same words, except that the phrase “return of the writs’, which is likely to confuse many readers will be replaced with the more comprehensible “declaration of the results of the election”.