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 | | South Australia and Tasmania call the lower house the House of Assembly. | | | A Legislative Assembly in British constitutional thought is the second-to-top or third-to-top tier of a government led by a Governor-General, Governor or a Lieutenant-Governor, inferior to an Executive Council and equal to or inferior to a Legislative Council. | | | India : in 23 of India's 28 states, the Legislative Assembly serves as the unicameral legislature. |
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http://www.1-helmets.com/articles/Legislative_Assembly
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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 House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of South Australia. | | | The leader of that party subsequently becomes Premier of South Australia, and their senior colleagues become ministers responsible for various portfolios. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australian_House_of_Assembly
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| | Steele Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Born in 1930, Hall was originally a farmer from Owen, seventy kilometres north of Adelaide, before gaining election to the South Australian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal and Country League (LCL) member for Gouger (later renamed Goyder) in 1959. | | | Raymond Steele Hall was Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970, Senator for South Australia from 1975 to 1977 and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996. | | | Hall won a Federal Senate seat for the Liberal Movement in 1975, and served in the Senate for two years before resigning his position. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_Hall
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| | 2006 South Australian Election. Legislative Council. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) |
| | The Council's electoral system is essentially the same as the Senate's, a form of proportional representation where voters can select a single ticket of candidate and preferences by voting 'above the line' on the ballot paper, or by giving preferences to all candidates 'below the line'. | | | The quota for election to the Legislative Council is 8.3%. | | | There are 22 members of the Legislative Council elected to alternating terms, 11 MLCs facing the electorate at each election for the House of Assembly (lower house). |
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http://abc.net.au/elections/sa/2006/guide/lc.htm
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| | Dictionary of Australian Biography G |
| | In 1887 he was elected to the South Australian assembly for Light, and in 1895 he became the representative of North Adelaide. | | | He was nominated to the legislative council of New South Wales in February 1887, and, after the great strike of 1890, was appointed president of the royal commission on strikes. | | | In 1855 he was elected a member of the legislative council, and when responsible government was established a year later, was elected a member of the legislative assembly for Sandhurst. |
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http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogG.html
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| | South Australian legislative election, 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Legislative elections for State Parliament were held in South Australia on March 18, 2006. | | | In the Legislative Council, Labor won 4 seats, the Liberals won 3 seats, both No Pokies MLC Nick Xenophon and his running mate Ann Bressington were elected and both Family First and the Greens won a seat each. | | | Matthew decided to retire at the 2006 election and the seat was contested for the Liberals by Legislative Council member Angus Redford. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australian_legislative_election,_2006
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| | Women & Politics in South Australia |
| | Dame Roma Mitchell became the first woman in Australia, and only the fourth Australian, to be invested with the Cross of Merit with Crown, by the Soverign Military Order of St John, (also known as The Order of Malta) in honour of her dedication to the sick and underprivileged. | | | Anne Levy of the ALP became the President of the Legislative Council, the first woman to be a Presiding Officer of a House of Parliament in Australia. | | | Senator Meg Lees was elected leader of the Australian Democrats and Senator Natasha Stott Despoja was elected deputy leader. |
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http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/women_and_politics/sa1.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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| | Dictionary of Australian Biography D |
| | He still kept his interest in social legislation, his factory act of 1893 has been already referred to, but all the time the question of federation was in his mind, and at the conference of 1890 and the conventions of 1891, 1897 and 1898 he was a leading figure. | | | He worked for responsible government, and was a non-official member of the legislative council when the constitution act was passed. | | | Among the measures he introduced and carried through the legislative council were an equity act, a divorce act, which gave to the wife the same rights as those of the husband, and the act authorizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister. |
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| | Physician-Assisted Suicide - Willamette University College of Law |
| | On 6/2/04, the South Australian parliament's Legislative Council voted 13-8 against the Dignity in Dying Bill, which would have allowed voluntary euthanasia. | | | This federal law, which prohibits Australian territories from enacting legislation permitting voluntary euthanasia, was intended to overturn existing legislation in the Northern Territory. | | | On 6/3/04, Australian Democrats deputy leader Lyn Allison gave notice in the federal parliament of a private member's bill to repeal the Euthanasia Law Act 1997. |
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http://www.willamette.edu/law/pas/2004_reports/072004.html
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| | Drug Lore Chapter 1 - Introduction |
| | This Charter has been signed by nearly 100 serving and some retired parliamentarians representing every state and territory legislature in Australia, as well as Senators and Members of the Federal Parliament. | | | The need for legislative reform was reviewed by His Honour Justice Michael Kirby, then President of the Supreme Court of NSW. | | | 1.6 The Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation was formed in April 1994 to actively involve the many members who endorsed the National Charter for Drug Law Reform. |
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http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/Library/studies/dlore/dlore_ch1.htm
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| | Women in Parliament - Parliament of Victoria |
| | One year later South Australian women were given the right both to vote and to contest parliamentary elections. | | | She was elected at a by-election for the Legislative Assembly seat of Allandale, caused by the death of the sitting member, Sir Alexander Peacock, the husband of Lady Peacock. | | | In 1982 the late Pauline Toner, Labor Member for the Legislative Assembly seat of Greensborough, became the first female Minister in this State; she was appointed Minister for Community Welfare Services in the first Cain ministry. |
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http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/women.html
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| | Government Guide -- Australian Government Publications |
| | Australian federal and New South Wales state laws are in the Fisher Reference Collection and the Law Library. | | | This is a list of publication lists and bibliographies of the Australian federal and state governments. | | | Department of the Prime Minister and 8 Cabinet Legislation handbook Canberra: AGPS 1983 R328.940765 COMMITTEES of the Commonwealth Parliament 2 (produced by the Departments of the Senate and the House of Representatives) Canberra: AGPS 1987 R354.9404 AUSTRALIA. |
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| | 2006 South Australian Election. Legislative Council. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) |
| | The quota for election to the Legislative Council is 8.3%. | | | There are 22 members of the Legislative Council elected to alternating terms, 11 MLCs facing the electorate at each election for the House of Assembly (lower house). | | | While not facing election, Liberal Angus Redford will be resigning from the Legislative Council before the election to run as the Liberal candidate in the House of Assembly seat of Bright. |
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http://abc.net.au/elections/sa/2006/guide/lc.htm
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| | THE COMMON LAW CONSTITUTION IN CANADA: RETURN OF LEX NON SCRIPTA AS FUNDAMENTAL LAW |
| | Between 1855 and 1862, Justice Benjamin Boothby of the South Australian Supreme Court held that a wide range of colonial statutes were void because of their repugnance to English law, in particular to English constitutional principles. | | | A committee of the South Australian Legislative Council condemned Boothby J. for adopting a theory of judicial supremacy that, while accepted under the United States Constitution, was 'abhorrent … to the principles of the English Constitution.' | | | Aside from the decisions of an eccentric colonial judge from South Australia, one must resort to the decisions of judges in American colonies that were, in effect, preparing for (political) revolution to find decisions in which unwritten law was held to prevail over statute law. |
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| | Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Australia |
| | In a 1999 referendum, Australian voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to establish a Republic, with 6,410,787 votes (54.9%) against the proposal, and 5,273,024 (45.1%) in favor, on a 95.1% turnout. | | | 2004 general election statistics were compiled on the basis of complete results published by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), updated as of January 6, 2005. | | | Unless otherwise indicated, Senate elections are for one-half of the state Senators, as well as all territory Senators. |
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http://electionresources.org/au
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| | Church and State in Australia |
| | The Australian Republican Movement fails to argue that Australia should separate church and state within such a Republic. | | | As of February 2004, a member of the South Australian Legislative Council (Upper House) has introduced a Bill to make mandatory the reporting to relevant authorities the confessions of child abuse in confessionals. | | | This was an odd conclusion since the Australian states had already had a century prior to Federation to establish state religions if they had wanted to. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Legislative branch |
| | Legislative Council met on 25 September 2004 for first time in 20 years with 21 members appointed by the Sultan; passed constitutional amendments calling for a 45-seat council with 15 elected members | | | bicameral Fono or Legislative Assembly consists of the House of Representatives (21 seats - 20 of which are elected by popular vote and 1 is an appointed, nonvoting delegate from Swains Island; members serve two-year terms) and the Senate (18 seats; members are elected from local chiefs and serve four-year terms) | | | unicameral National Assembly or Bunge (224 seats; 210 members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms, 12 so-called "nominated" members who are appointed by the president but selected by the parties in proportion to their parliamentary vote totals, 2 ex-officio members) |
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http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2101.html
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| | Dictionary of Australian Biography Br-By |
| | In 1872 he was returned to the South Australian house of assembly for Onkaparinga, and from July 1874 to March 1875 was minister for justice and education in the third Blyth (q.v.) ministry. | | | In 1881 Bracken was elected to the house of representatives for Dunedin Central, but at the 1884 election lost his seat by three votes. | | | In 1897 he was in command of the New South Wales lancer regiment with the rank of colonel, and he was afterwards in command of the 1st brigade of the Australian light horse until his retirement in 1908. |
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| | LLRX.com - Update to Researching Australian Law |
| | Nick was joint Australian Law Librarian of the Year in 1997 and has published widely in law and law librarianship. | | | The Australian Constitution, embodying the doctrine of separation of powers, prescribes the authority of the executive, legislative and judicial arms of government. | | | Nick was the convenor of the Australian and New Zealand university law librarians group from 1993 to 1999 and was local convenor of the IALL conference held in Melbourne in September 1999. |
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http://www.llrx.com/features/australian2.htm
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| | University of New South Wales - Library Home - Guide to Legal Research - Australian Legislation |
| | Because the Commonwealth of Australia is a federation of states, Australian citizens are subject to the laws made by both the Commonwealth Parliament and of the parliament of the state or territory in which they reside. | | | For New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, the statutory rule must be notified and published in the government gazette of the legislating state. | | | This term applies to legislation of general application made by a minister, governor general or governor. |
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http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/law/guides/austlaw1.html
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| | Australian Parliamentary Library - Background Paper 12 1996-97 |
| | Sarre, 'The partial "decriminalisation" of cannabis: the South Australian experience', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 6(2), November 1994: 196-207 at 207. | | | Further evaluation of the South Australian expiation notice scheme is under way, including an economic analysis of the scheme and studies of community attitudes and the attitudes of the judiciary and police. | | | From the 1960s, most Australian States gradually removed controls on the non-medical use of drugs from poisons legislation to statutes with a criminal justice orientation. |
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http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bp/1996-97/97bp12.htm
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| | Internet Resource Guide: Australian Law Resources |
| | Includes Australian Current Law (monthly summaries of new cases and legislation); statutes annotations for the Commonwealth and some States; and legal dictionaries. | | | The Legislation Index of the Supreme Court of Victoria Library provides commencement information for Commonwealth acts since 1991. | | | Indexes to Victorian legislation - from the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Department of Premier and Cabinet |
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http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/law/auslaw.htm
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| | Articles - South Australian Legislative Council |
| | The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of South Australia. | | | The Legislative Council was the first parliament in South Australia, having been created in 1840, seventeen years before the Assembly. | | | After the changes, it consisted of 24 members, four official (fulfilling what would be today ministerial positions) and four non-official members, both nominated by the governor on behalf of the Crown, and 16 elected members. |
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| | Australia (09/05) |
| | Discussions between Australian and British representatives led to adoption by the British Government of an act to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia in 1900. | | | Australian military and civilian specialists are participating in the training of Iraqi security forces and the reconstruction of Iraq. | | | General elections are held at least once every 3 years; the last general election was in October 2004. |
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| | states |
| | Case studies - decisions of South Australian Supreme Court cases and Appeals. | | | South Australian Parliament links including History of Parliament, how Parliament works, the Parliamentary process, House of Assembly, Legislative Council, members, Legislation, Hansard, Committees. | | | The Commission provides information about Equal Opportunity laws in South Australia. |
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http://www.letasa.asn.au/states.htm
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| | Fair Election:: Pre-Election Observation Report |
| | The Ohio delegation also consulted with Ohio election law experts; the Directors and staff of the Boards of Elections of Franklin and Cuyahoga Counties; as well as the staff of the Secretary of State’s office. | | | This includes providing greater clarity and consistency on election law and on the responsibilities of state and county officials governing the elections process. | | | Florida law requires a manual recount in elections that are decided by 0.25 percent or less of the votes cast. |
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| | Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2006-2010 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council, as elected at the 2006 state election: | | | Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2002-2006 | | | These were caused by the death of ALP MLC Terry Roberts and the resignation from the Legislative Council of Liberal MLC Angus Redford in the last days of the last parliament. |
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