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| | Parliament of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | According to Section 1 of the Constitution of Australia, Parliament consists of the Queen of Australia, the House of Representatives (the "lower house"), and the Senate (the "upper house" or "house of review"). | | | Parliament granted a seat to the Northern Territory in 1922, and to the Australian Capital Territory in 1948; these territorial representatives, however, had only limited voting rights until 1968. | | | The Constitution allows Parliament to determine the number of Senators by legislation, provided that the six original states are equally represented. |
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| | Parliament - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | The New Zealand Parliament consists of a 120-member unicameral House of Representatives from which an executive cabinet of about 20 ministers is appointed. | | | Unlike the House of Lords and the Canadian Senate, the Australian Senate is elected and has much more power than its British or Canadian counterparts. | | | Closer in that regard to the British model is the Parliament of Canada, which consists of the House of Commons, the Senate and the Queen, represented by the Governor-General. |
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http://www.politicalinformation.net/encyclopedia/Parliament.htm
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| | LLRX.com - Update to Researching Australian Law |
| | The Australian Commonwealth Parliament and those of the States are bicameral, with the exception of that of the State of Queensland which abolished its upper house in 1922. | | | Although three Australian territories also have self government, their laws may be disallowed by the Federal Parliament. | | | Australian Law Reform Commission is the best known Australian law reform agency. |
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http://www.llrx.com/features/australian.htm
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| | Parliament & Executive Essay Questions |
| | "The backbench member of the Senate and House of Representatives must serve party, electorate and parliament, thereby serving none of them well." Discuss. | | | "Parliament is often criticised as just a 'talking shop' with all decisions cut and dried; and that, except for giving members of the House and the Senate the opportunity to let off a bit of "steam" or "hot air", it serves little purpose as a forum for debate." Discuss this point of view. | | | "Real power in the federal parliament resides in the Senate, since it is there that government legislation may be effectively challenged." Discuss. |
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http://www.australianpolitics.com/parliament/essays.shtml
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| | Australia As a Republic |
| | Section 1 of the Constitution states that the Legislative power of the Commonwealth is vested in a Federal Parliament which consists of 'the Queen, a Senate and a House of Representatives'. | | | The Queen is the head of state of each of the Australian States and the State constitutions all reflect the central role of the Crown as part of the Parliament and Executive of the State. | | | Parliament can provide for as lavish, or as spartan, a life-style for the Governor-General (or a republican head of state) as it wishes. |
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| | Proposed Changes to the Australian Constitution - Republic Referendum 1999 |
| | Until the Parliament otherwise provides, but subject to this Constitution, the laws in force in each State, for the time being, relating to elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of the State shall, as nearly as practicable, apply to elections of senators for the State. | | | Until the Parliament otherwise provides, but subject to this Constitution, the laws in force in each State for the time being relating to elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of the State shall, as nearly as practicable, apply to elections in the State of members of the House of Representatives. | | | Until the Parliament otherwise provides, any question respecting the qualification of a senator or of a member of the House of Representatives, or respecting a vacancy in either House of the Parliament, and any question of a disputed election to either House, shall be determined by the House in which the question arises. |
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http://www.australianpolitics.com/elections/1999referendum/constitution.shtml
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| | Australia Now - Australia's System of Government |
| | Government is based on a popularly elected Parliament with two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate. | | | Elected politicians rarely vote against their parties in Parliament. | | | The Australian Constitution sets out the powers of government in three separate chapters for the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, but insists that members of the executive must also be members of the legislature. |
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http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/sys_gov.html
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| | Encyclopedia: Australian House of Representatives |
| | Australian Senate chamber Entrance to the Senate The Australian Senate is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia. | | | The Speakers chair in the House of Representatives The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Parliament of Australia. | | | Often, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often called a 'senate'. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Australian-House-of-Representatives
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| | Welcome to the Australian Greens Online - View Document |
| | Authorised by Stewart Jackson, Suite 7, Lower Ground Flr, Ethos House, Ainslie Ave, Canberra City ACT - Copyright © 2005 | | | The Prime Minister’s latest laws on terrorism were withheld from parliament this week to avoid one month’s scrutiny by a senate committee, Greens Senator Bob Brown said today after the laws were leaked into the public arena. | | | Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania, Christine Milne, has called on the federal coalition and state Labor governments to recognise the severe disadvantages facing people in the electorate of Braddon and take steps to address the causes of poverty. |
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| | Old Parliament House |
| | Set in the corridors, Chambers and offices of Old Parliament House, My Melancholy Duty tells the remarkable stories of Prime Ministers Menzies and Curtin as they faced the challenges of leading their country during wartime. | | | At Old Parliament House until 29 January 2006 | | | Old Parliament House made headlines for more than sixty years as home to Australia's Federal Parliament from 1927 to 1988. |
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| | The Australian Parliament |
| | Speaker Proposes Reforms To Parliament - an interview with Neil Andrew, Speaker of the House of Representatives, in which he suggests that parliamentary debates should include questions. | | | Australian Democrats Leader Calls for Parliamentary Reform - Senator Meg Lees proposals for reform of parliament (22 Feb 1999). | | | May 9, 2001: Sir William Deane's Address to the Ceremonial Federation Sitting of Parliament |
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http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/21947/20011112/vcepolitics.com/parliament
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| | Australia articles and news from Start Learning Now |
| | The Bicameralismbicameral Commonwealth Parliament consists of the Australian SenateSenate (the upper house) of 76 senators, and a Australian House of RepresentativesHouse of Representatives (the lower house) of 150 members. | | | The Queen is represented in each state by a Governors of the Australian statesgovernor; an Administrator of the Northern Territoryadministrator in the Northern Territory, and the Governor-General in the ACT, have analogous roles. | | | The head of governmentheads of the governments in each state and territory are called Premiers of the Australian statespremiers and Chief Ministerchief ministers, respectively. |
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http://www.startlearningnow.com/Australia.htm
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| | attwood.htm |
| | Each house of parliament must approve a constitutional proposal by a two-thirds vote, which is then submitted to the voters. | | | The Australian constitution stands in sharp contrast to the constitution of the United States, where Indian affairs is an entirely federal responsibility. | | | Section 51 paralleled the federal parliamentâs constitutional powers to control immigration, and thus the distinction between "native" and "introduced" races made sense at the time the Constitution was drafted. |
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http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/attwood.htm
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| | Canberra |
| | Canberra has many national monuments and institutions such as Government House (the official residence of the Governor-General), Parliament House, the High Court of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the National Gallery of Australia, Telstra Tower, the Royal Australian Mint, the National Library of Australia, and the National Museum of Australia. | | | The city is laid out on two major perpendicular axes, a water axis that stretches along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House northeastward to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mt Ainslie. | | | In addition, there is an infrastructural axis stretching from the Federal Parliament House on Capital Hill to the seat of territorial government on City Hill, and a second one that stretches from Parliament House to Russell Offices and Duntroon. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/C/Canberra.htm
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| | South Australian House of Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As with the federal parliament and Australian other states and territories, voting in the Assembly is compulsory for all those over the age of 18. | | | The leader of that party subsequently becomes Premier of South Australia, and their senior colleagues become ministers responsible for various portfolios. | | | The development of an elected legislature- although only men could vote - marked a significant change from the prior system, where power had been concentrated in the hands of the Governor and the Legislative Council, which was appointed by the Governor. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australian_House_of_Assembly
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| | Parliament House |
| | Police have no power to enter Parliament House in the ordinary course of their duties without the consent of at least one of the presiding officers, in practice conveyed through the Serjeant-at-Arms, the Usher of the Black Rod or the security controller. | | | In the current parliament there are 76 elected senators and 147 elected members of the House of Representatives. | | | The Chambers of the House of Representatives and the Senate have both private and public areas which are kept secure by Parliament House security attendants. |
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| | The Australian: Parliament back for final fortnight (archived) |
| | The Senate resumes at 12.30pm and the House of Representatives at 2pm. | | | And the government's record on Iraq will be under scrutiny when Senator Hill outlines to the parliament exactly what and when Australian officials first knew of Iraqi prisoner abuse by American guards in Baghdad. | | | The Australian: Parliament back for final fortnight (archived) |
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| | Australian Parliamentary Library Background Paper 11 1996-97 |
| | Aboriginal frustration at the general lack of Federal Government action in the five years following the referendum and the McMahon Government's attitude to land rights culminated in the raising, on 26 January 1972, of a 'Tent Embassy' on the lawns in front of Parliament House in Canberra. | | | Before federation, both women and Aborigines had been entitled to vote in South Australia and in order to preserve the rights of South Australian women, s.41 of the new Commonwealth Constitution provided that 'no adult person' entitled to vote at State elections should be prevented from voting at federal elections. | | | The referendum was not whole-heartedly supported by both sides of politics, did not end legal discrimination, did not confer the vote, equal wages and citizenship on indigenous Australians and did not permit for the first time Commonwealth government involvement in Aboriginal Affairs. |
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| | National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 150 - The 1967 Referendum |
| | The first question, referred to as the ‘nexus question' was an attempt to alter the balance of numbers in the Senate and the House of Representatives. | | | It is interesting to note that because the majority of parliamentarians supported the proposed amendment, a NO case was never formulated for presentation as part of the referendum campaign. | | | On 27 May 1967 a Federal referendum was held. |
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| | Australian Republican Movement - History - Convention - Lindsay Fox Speech 11/2/98 |
| | The head of state would need to be elected by a two-thirds sitting of the parliament and this would mean that, to become head of state, the nominated person would need a majority of the representatives of the Australian people to support him or her. | | | I believe this would involve a joint sitting of the House of Representatives and the Senate to elect the head of state. | | | The Prime Minister's action would need to be presented to a meeting of the House of Representatives for ratification within 30 days of the removal of the president. |
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| | FileRoom.org - Australian Parliament removes photos of human rights abuses |
| | Confronting Bodies: Australian Ministers of Parliament, Speakers of the House and President of the Senate | | | Description of Incident: Approval was given for this exhibit to be displayed in the foyer of the Australian House of Parliament. | | | During its installation in March of 1997, some members of the Australian Parliament ordered the photograph's removal. |
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| | 1927 Parliament House Australian Silver Florin |
| | 1927 Opening of the First Parliament House, Canberra. | | | The Federal Parliament transferred from Melbourne to Canberra in May 1927 and was opened in a grand ceremony by the future George VI known then as the Duke of York and his wife, The Queen Mum, as she became known as in her later years. | | | Although designed by Sir Edgar Bertram Mackenal, who designed the normal circulating George V issues, the portrait is of a distinctive style, showing a crowned George V facing left. |
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| | civics |
| | South Australian Parliament links including History of Parliament, how Parliament works, the Parliamentary process, House of Assembly, Legislative Council, members, Legislation, Hansard, Committees. | | | Links to South Australian Government Departments, Courts, Parliament. | | | Virtual Tour, Youth Involvement, Education Officer, Flag, Emblems and Coat of Arms, Weekly Diary of a Member of the Legislative Council, Weekly Diary of a Member of the House of Assembly, Weekly Diary of a Cabinet Minister. |
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