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	Australian legislative election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Legislative elections were held in Australia on 9 October, 2004.
		The election result was a triumph for Howard, who in December 2004 became Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, and who will see the election result as a vindication of his policies, particularly his decision to join in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
		As in all Australian elections, the second-preference votes of minor parties were crucial in determining the outcome of this election, and the close of nominations was followed by a period of bargaining among the parties.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Australian_legislative_election,_2004 (3320 words)

	Australian legislative election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This large election billboard by the Liberal Party attacking Mark Latham's credentials on economic management was typical of many used during the campaign.
		The election result was a triumph for Howard, who in December 2004 became Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, and who saw the election result as a vindication of his policies, particularly his decision to join in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
		The Australian Democrats polled their lowest vote since their creation in 1977, and lost the three Senate seats they were defending.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_legislative_election,_2004 (3206 words)

	Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Democracy Watch (International) website, further defines fair democratic elections as, "Elections in which great care is taken to prevent any explicit or hidden structural bias towards any one candidate, aside from those beneficial biases that naturally result from an electorate that is equally well informed about the various assets and liabilities of each candidate".
		In the 2004 Iranian parliamentary elections almost all of the reformist candidates were ruled unfit by the Guardian Council of religious leaders.
		In order for democratic elections to be fair and competitive, opposition parties and candidates must enjoy the rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and movement as necessary to voice their criticisms of the government openly and to bring alternative policies and candidates to the voters.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/el/Election.htm (1956 words)

	Talk:Australian legislative election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is not to say that the work is not quality, because it is probably one of the best articles available on the election on the entire internet, but it is just not appropriate for featured status just yet.
		The article has been mostly written by Australians who have all been close observers of, or (as in my case) participants in, the election process.
		Ie, seats won, what the election said about the population's support for the incumbent govt (ie swing) and the potential action the government will take with its 2-house majority (if it gets it).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Australian_legislative_election,_2004 (1180 words)

	2004 Federal election
		The Australian Local Government Association is urging the contenders for the Federal Government benches to commit to a much better deal for what is increasingly becoming the "poor relation" of government in Australia, as Paul Lewer reports.
		In a comprehensive and closely argued election blueprint on the state of local government across the country now with the political parties the ALGA argues that this tier of government - often most closely linked to essential services for average Australians in the city, the regions and the bush - is being starved of funds.
		Also on the health front the ALGA election blueprint calls on the major parties in the election to commit to an immunisation incentive programme for local government, for seeding grants to meet the needs of seniors and federal government resources to buttress a sustainable framework for childcare services.
	www.alga.asn.au /2004FederalElection/lewer.php (1223 words)

	The 2004 ACT election
		As with the federal contest, the ACT election campaign relied heavily on television and brochure advertisements. The overlap of the federal campaign meant voter fatigue was a potential difficulty for ACT candidates in delivering their messages.
		Much of the government’s legislation was passed in the previous Assembly with the negotiated support of the Greens and the Democrats.
		In the 2004 ACT election, with electronic voting used in 8 polling booths, the result of around 27 000 votes (twelve per cent) was available at the close of polls.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rn/2004-05/05rn23.htm (1612 words)

	Australian Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Consequently, in strict constitutional terms, the Government is ''also'' answerable to the Australian Senate, given that the loss of Supply in parliamentary democracies ''automatically'' requires the resignation of a government or ministry, or alternatively the calling of a general election, because without access to exchequer funding a government cannot function and would face bankruptcy.
		This led to the eventual intervention by the Governor-General to withdraw the commission of the Australian Prime Minister (in effect dismissing him), the appointment of a minority government from the Opposition in the House of Representatives and the calling of a general election.
		If the Senate repeatedly refuses to pass legislation initiated in the lower house, the Government may either abandon the bill, continue to revise it, or call a Australian_electoral_system#Double_Dissolutions double dissolution (election for both houses of Parliament) and attempt to pass the bill at a subsequent Joint sitting of Parliamentjoint sitting/ of the two houses.
	www.infothis.com /find/Australian_Senate (1564 words)

	ABC Elections. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
		Carr, Iemma and staying in government: In August, as the New South Wales political scene underwent a massive change, Antony Green cast his eye over the legacy of outgoing premier Bob Carr, the electoral challenge that faced new Premier Morris Iemma and the curse of retiring premiers.
		At the 2002 Victorian election, Labor's landslide victory in the lower house also delivered Labor a majority in the state's upper house, the Legislative Council.
		Election Night results and statistics from the ABC's election computer system.
	www.abc.net.au /elections (299 words)

	John Howard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His victory in the Australian legislative election, 20049 October 2004 federal election gave him a fourth term of office, with control of both houses of the Parliament of AustraliaParliament/, and made him the most successful Australian politician of recent times.
		Peacock was defeated by Hawke at the 1984 election and, despite a better than expected performance during that election (most commentators believed that Peacock would lose in a landslide — he actually picked up seats), he began to worry that Howard was a potential leadership challenger.
		Australian opinion was deeply divided on the war and large public protests occurred.
	www.infothis.com /find/John_Howard (3263 words)

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		The government lost a by-election in a safe seat in Queensland, and Labor governments were elected in all the states and territories.
		Australian opinion was deeply divided on the war, and Howard's credibility was damaged when by the end of 2003 no such weapons were discovered in Iraq.
		In early 2004 Howard was preparing to seek a fourth term as Prime Minister, at elections likely to be held late in the year (see Australian legislative election, 2004).
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/john_howard (2554 words)

	The Poll Bludger
		The election will be the sixth since self-government was established in 1989 and the fourth since the original single electorate system made way for three electorates, two (Brindabella and Ginninderra) with five members and one (Molonglo) with seven, elected under the Hare-Clark sytem.
		The system's closest Australian relative is that for the Tasmanian lower house, sharing with it rotating ordering of candidates on the ballot paper so that candidates must compete for votes with party colleagues, in contrast to the otherwise similar Senate system where the parties determine the order of their lists.
		A poll published in the Canberra Times on election eve has Labor on 55 per cent, Liberal on 30 per cent and the Greens on 11 per cent (after allocation of undecided), suggesting 10 seats for Labor might not be out of the question after all.
	www.pollbludger.com /act2004.htm (2040 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Australia
		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.
		The remaining election statistics presented in this space come from official reports and data files issued by the AEC and the Parliament of Australia's Parliamentary Library.
		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.
	electionresources.org /au (525 words)

	The Poll Bludger
		The Legislative Council election will be the fifth under the current system of six multi-member regions, with four regions represented by five members and two represented by seven.
		From the 16 separate elections held for five-member regions since 1989, the major parties have won all five seats on 10 occasions, one minor party member has been elected on four occasions, and two were elected on two occasions (in Agricultural and Mining and Pastoral regions at the 2001 election).
		In the eight separate elections for the two seven-member regions, no minor party or independent member was returned on three occasions, one was returned on three occasions and two were returned on two occasions.
	www.pollbludger.com /walc2005.htm (4092 words)

	Tennis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is a list of national elections (sometimes called General or Presidential Elections) that took place around the world in 2004.
		The ruling party, the People's Party, are said to have lost the elections partly due to the effect on the nation of the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks.
		The second part of the election, the runoff between the two most popular candidates from the first round, was originally run on 21 Nov, but the result was later dismissed by the Ukrainian Supreme Court due to alegations of fraud on behalf of then-Prime Minister and victor of that election, Viktor Yanukovych.
	www.tennisworld.org /index.php?title=Elections_in_2004 (209 words)

	General Election 2004 Voters Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government, is composed of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
		This legislation has equipped federal authorities to conduct successful, comprehensive criminal and intelligence investigations; bar and expel foreign terroristsfrom their sources of financial support; and to punish acts of terrorism.
		The General Assembly, the legislative branch of state government, is composed of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
	pa.lwv.org /washingtoncopa/electionvg04.html (2389 words)

	ACT Election 2004. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
		Successful Greens candidate Deb Foskey is delighted to be elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly, but expressed disappointment she is the territory's only cross-bench representative.
		The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) today enters the second week of counting to determine the outcome of the ACT Assembly election.
		Labor has taken a strong lead in the ACT election, based on about 15 per cent of the vote counted, but it is still too early to know if it can win a majority of the 17 seats in the Legislative Assembly.
	www.abc.net.au /elections/act/2004 (452 words)

	The Economist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In January 2004, this index was joined by a Starbucks "tall latte index".
		The 2004 Award for Social and Economic Innovation is Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank.
		The newspaper was first published in September 1843 by James Wilson to “take part in ‘a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.’” This phrase is quoted on the newspaper's contents page.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/The_Economist (1699 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After the first week of campaigning, a Newspoll conducted for News Corporation newspapers indicated that the Coalition held a lead on a two-party preferred basis of 52 percent to 48 percent in the government's twelve most marginal held seats.
		The Newspoll in The Australian, generally regarded as the most accurate of the national polls, showed (September 21) Labor leading with 52.5 percent of the two-party vote.
		Many Australian major daily newspaper editorials backed a return of the Howard government, with the notable exception of the Sydney Morning Herald which backed no parties.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Australian_legislative_election,_2004 (3058 words)

	Antony Green Profile. Federal Election 2004. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
		He has worked on every federal, state and territory election since his first election with the ABC in Queensland in 1989.
		He has appeared regularly on camera since the 1993 Federal election, when he was the first to call the return of the Keating government.
		In all Antony has covered 37 election nights with the ABC, the most recent being the election in the ACT on October 16, 2004.
	www.abc.net.au /elections/wa/2005/guide/antony_green.htm (164 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| 2004 Elections
		One conclusion is that the elections conferred no mandate for anything, in fact, barely took place, in any serious sense of the term "election." That is by no means a novel conclusion.
		On the eve of the 2000 elections, about 75% of the electorate regarded it as a game played by rich contributors, party managers, and the PR industry, which trains candidates to project images and produce meaningless phrases that might win some votes.
		On the eve of the 2004 elections, "three quarters of Americans say that the US should not have gone to war if Iraq did not have WMD or was not providing support to al Qaeda, while nearly half still say the war was the right decision" (Stephen Kull, reporting the PIPA study he directs).
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6751&sectionID=90 (2451 words)

	Australian Federal Budget 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If enacted, an immediate lump sum payment of $600 per child will be paid before 30 June 2004 to all families eligible for FTB Part A in the 2003-04 year, with a further entitlement to $600 per child after the reconciliation of their 2003-04 entitlement.
		In addition, the Government has decided to amend legislation, currently before Parliament, to delay until 1 July 2005 the date by which charities, public benevolent institutions and health promotion charities need endorsement by the Commissioner of Taxation in order to access tax concessions relating to fringe benefits tax and the goods and services tax.
		Effectively, private companies will be entitled to a full FDT offset where this liability arises because the company has franked dividends in its first profitable year of operation in anticipation of franking credits based upon a reasonable estimate of the company's tax liability for the year.
	www.pwc.com /extweb/manissue.nsf/docid/314D2B84E7978904CA256ED6001F1DD1 (5366 words)

	Free Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Elections in Australia gives information on election and election results in Australia.
		The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia has two chambers.
		Australian legislative elections: 1993 - 1996 - 1998 - 2001 - 2004 - 2007
	www.freeencyclopedia.net /index.php?title=Elections_in_Australia (195 words)

	AUSUK :: Elections in Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Australian High Commission is located at Australia House, Strand, London WC2B 4LA (corner of the Aldwych and the Strand).
		To be eligible to vote in Federal elections and referenda you must be registered on the Commonwealth Electoral Roll.
		Australians living overseas for career and employment reasons (or those of their spouse) can enrol up to 3 years from their date of departure from Australia and maintain their entitlement to vote for 6 years.
	www.australia.org.uk /ausuk/html/eia1.html (771 words)

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