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  Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 2004-2007 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blue represents the Liberal Party, green the National Party, red the Labor Party, grey independent members, and white are unused seats.
ALP member Mark Latham resigned on January 18, 2005; ALP candidate Chris Hayes won the resulting by-election on March 19.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Australian_House_of_Representatives   (160 words)

  
 Australian House of Representatives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia.
The 150 members of the House are elected from single-member electorates (geographic districts, sometimes known as "seats" but officially known as "Australian House of Representatives electoral Divisions").
In a reflection of the United Kingdom House of Commons, the predominant colour of the furnishings in the House of Representatives is green.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_House_of_Representatives   (566 words)

  
 Member of Parliament - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In India, the term Member of Parliament refers to the Sansad or the Indian Parliament chambers of the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha MPs to the Lok Sabha are elected popularly by constentuencies in the Indian states and union territories, while MPs to the Rajya Sabha are elected by State legislatures.
In New Zealand Member of Parliament is the term for a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, although parliament technically consists of both the House and the Queen.
The representatives from the Dewan Rakyat are elected in general elections or by-elections, as opposed to the members of the Dewan Negara who are appointed by the King, in recognition of outstanding service to the country in various fields.The various State Governments also have the power to appoint Senators, propotionate to the state's size.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/MP   (753 words)

  
 Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame (chronological)
List of members of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland
List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
www.freeglossary.com /i35j16.html   (266 words)

  
 Member of Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A Member of Parliament or MP is a representative elected by the of an electoral district to a parliament ; in the Westminster system specifically to the lower house or of Commons.
The British Parliament is divided into the House of Commons and the House of Lords ; though it is often assumed that MP is a member of Commons they be a member of either house.
There are several special members of Parliament the Prime Minister other government ministers the Chief Whip of each party Privy Counsellors and the Speaker of the House.
www.freeglossary.com /Member_of_Parliament   (407 words)

  
 LLRX.com - Update to Researching Australian Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
The number of Members elected to the House of Representatives depends on the size of the State's population but the same number of Senators is elected by the people of the States, regardless of the size of population.
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.
www.llrx.com /features/australian3.htm   (4762 words)

  
 Australian Government Attorney-General's Department - Attorney General's Department - Australias Legal System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Australian Parliament consists of the Queen (who is represented in Australia by the Governor-General), the Senate, and the House of Representatives.
In the House of Representatives the number of seats from each State depends on the size of the State's population (although each State is guaranteed at least five seats).
Ministers may either be senators or members of the House of Representatives, although established constitutional practice dictates that the Prime Minister must be a member of the House of Representatives rather than a senator.
www.ag.gov.au /www/agdHome.nsf/AllDocs/RWPA5C949DB88E95857CA256BB300154E38?OpenDocument   (6932 words)

  
 The Australian Parliament
Foremost among these are the ability to make and break governments, to represent the electorate, to represent the States, to legislate, to monitor and scrutinise government activities and the expenditure of public money, and to be a forum for debate and the expresssion of grievances.
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the Australian Parliament.
Currently composed of 150 representatives elected from single-member constituencies, the House decides which party shall govern and is the focal point of political debate and conflict.
pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/21243/20041016/www.australianpolitics.com/parliament   (523 words)

  
 New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elizabeth II is the Queen of New Zealand and is represented by a non-partisan Governor-General; the Queen 'reigns but does not rule', so she has no real political influence.
Members of the Executive Council are required to be Members of Parliament, and most are also in Cabinet.
The silver fern is a national emblem worn by New Zealanders representing their country in sport and also features as the name of New Zealand's highly successful national netball team, the Silver Ferns.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand   (5061 words)

  
 House of Representatives Factsheet: Publications
Members are not permitted to incorporate the text of speeches they have not delivered in the House.
Items are listed as either 'Notices'—signifying that a Member or Minister has given notice of his or her intention to introduce a matter for consideration, or as 'Orders of the day'—signifying that the matter has already been introduced and that the House has ordered it to be considered, or further considered, on a later day.
Members who can assist the Speaker and his or her deputies in the Chair); House and joint committees, their membership and inquiries being undertaken; and the appointment of Members to statutory bodies by the House.
www.australianpolitics.com /parliament/factsheets/12publications.htm   (2461 words)

  
 The Ultimate Member of Parliament - American History Information Guide and Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
MPs in the House of Commons are elected and remain MPs until Parliament is dissolved (parliaments can last up to five years).
The members of the House of Lords are officially appointed by the Monarch, but the selection is done by the British Prime Minister.
The representatives from the Dewan Rakyat are elected in the general elections, or by- elections, as opposed to the members of the Dewan Negara who are appointed by the King, in recognition to outstanding service to the country in various fields.The various State Governments also have the power to appoint Senators,propotionate to the state's size.
www.historymania.com /american_history/MPs   (572 words)

  
 Instant Runoff Voting for Wisconsin: Australia’s IRV
As described in the Australian Electoral Commission’s online guide to Commonwealth electoral procedures (April 1999), “full preferential voting” applies to elections for both legislative bodies, even though the House consists of legislators elected from single-member districts (¶ 8.1) and the Senate consists of legislators elected from multiple-member districts (¶ 8.1).
For the House of Representatives, a straightforward “instant runoff” mechanism determines the victor in the single-member House districts.
“Members of the House of Representatives are elected on the basis of an absolute majority system.
my.execpc.com /E0/32/galaxy/irv_australia.htm   (445 words)

  
 ozpolitics.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
British-style Cabinet or responsible government: The executive arm of government is formed from the party or coalition of parties with a majority in the lower house of the legislature (the House of Representatives in the Commonwealth Parliament).
Members of the executive government must also be members of the legislature.
The Australian Labor Party is centre-left in orientation and generally espouses the political philosophies of economic liberalism and social democracy.
www.ozpolitics.info /intro/intro1.htm   (1296 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Australian Labor Party
While standard practice in Australian English is to spell the word labour with an "-our" ending, in reference to the name of the party it is spelt with an "-or" ending.
The party has about 50,000 individual members, although this figure tends to fluctuate along with the party's electoral fortunes.The members and unions elect delegates to state and territory conferences (usually held annually, although more frequent conferences are often held).
In the past the ratio of conference delegates coming from the branches and affiliated unions has varied from state to state, however under recent national reforms at least 50% of delegates at all state and territory conferences must be elected by branches.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party   (2259 words)

  
 Australian Labor Party: History of the Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party entered federal politics at the first Commonwealth elections of 1901, when 16 Labor members were elected to the House of Representatives and eight to the Senate.
JC (Chris) Watson, a Sydney printer and former member of the New South Wales Parliament, was elected the first leader of the Party.
During the first decade of the Commonwealth, when the Australian Parliament was divided on the tariff issue between Free Traders, Protectionists and the Labor Party, the ALP gradually increased its numbers and influence.
www.alp.org.au /about/history.php   (2608 words)

  
 Timeline for Australian Jewish History
The Australian Aborigines League attempts to present a resolution ‘condemning the persecution of Jews and Christians in Germany’ to the German Consul-General.
However the full story about the attitude of Australian public figures to the Jews in the British mandate territory of Palestine pre-1948, and to Israel in its early years is rather complex; this is detailed by Chanan Reich in Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship, published by MUP 2002.
Official Australian War Artist Alan Moore was present at the liberation by British troops of the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp on 15 April 1945.
www.ajhs.info /jha/timeline.htm   (2084 words)

  
 Members First   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tesco was a graduate who, having failed to emigrate to Canada, had returned to Camberley, Surrey UK, and had been working in a variety of jobs when the opportunity arose to form a band.
Carroll was dismissed by other members of the band but it was the Tesco-Carroll axis that dominated the band and instigated the line up changes.
It tells the story of a young tomboy who feels that her family is ignoring her while her older brother is preparing to marry.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/123/members-first.html   (986 words)

  
 The Australian government structure
The Australian Federal Parliament is bicameral in that it has two houses, The House of Representatives (Lower House), and The Senate (Upper House).
The Lower House is made up of 148 representatives from around the country, with each representing the same number of people.
Local government is not recognised in the Australian Constitution, and as such is controlled, practically and theoretically by their respective state parliaments.
me.essortment.com /australiangover_rbpt.htm   (754 words)

  
 House parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A leaf of the photo of all the members (pdf 560 KB) of the House of Representatives in 41.o parliament (put to the day the 7 of September of 2005)
The members enumerated alphabetically, Johnson to the wood (format of the pdf 288 KB).
List Of The Ministry, The 30 Pdf Of January Of 2006 (16kb)
parliament.ziportal.com /house-parliament.htm   (355 words)

  
 Australian Government Documents Online - University of Wisconsin-Madison - Memorial Library
The home page functions as a gateway for all House of Representatives information, which includes information on members, committees, legislation, and publications.
Gives PDF versions of the House and Senate daily bills list, lists of current bills, with the bill text and explanatory memoranda or proposed amendments, and excise and customs tariff proposals.
Hansard produces proceedings of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Main Committee of the House of Representatives; transcripts of evidence given before parliamentary committees; and transcripts of some ministerial and other conferences.
www.library.wisc.edu /guides/govdocs/austral.htm   (382 words)

  
 American Australian Association
In 1998, Mr Rudd was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Federal Member for Griffith.
Between 1998 and 2001, he was Chair of the Party's Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Policy Committee, a member of the Australian Labor Party Economics Policy Committee, and a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Securities.
He is a member of the Australian/US Leadership Dialogue, the Advisory Council of the AustralAsia Centre, the Korea-Australia Advisory Council, a founding Associate of the Centre for International Strategic Analysis and a regular guest lecturer on North Asia at the Australian Defence College.
www.americanaustralian.org /Corporate/storydisplay.php?storyId=2076   (2136 words)

  
 Parliament of Australia: House of Representatives - Member of the 41st Parliament
List of Members, Vol 59, 17 July 2006
Photographs of Members of the House of Representatives:
A printable photo sheet in PDF format of All Members (PDF 450 kb) of the House of Representatives in the 41st Parliament is also available (updated 30 June 2006).
www.aph.gov.au /house/members   (224 words)

  
 JSMP - News-arc-Sept03
Yesterday, 53 members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to the Australian government urging it to move fairly and expeditiously in negotiations with neighboring East Timor to determine a permanent maritime boundary between the two countries.
As members of the U.S. House of Representatives who are strong supporters of East Timor, we write to urge your country to move
As the poorest country in Southeast Asia, East Timor's dependence on foreign aid is one factor that keeps it from consolidating its stability and economic development, which of course adds greatly to the strain the country continues to face.
www.jsmp.minihub.org /News/mar04/09mar04_frankleads_eng.htm   (640 words)

  
 Victoria Online: Members of Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
List of Senators by State and Territory (Parliament of Australia)
List of Members by State (House of Representatives, Parliament of Australia)
A complete listing of members of the House of Representatives by State and Territory with links to the Parliamentary home pages for each member.
www.vic.gov.au /sl/vic-online/63642-Victoria-Online-Members-of-Parliament.html   (96 words)

  
 June 1997 QN1997B
The Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Bracks, was offered and given the commission to govern after advising me that he enjoyed the support of two Independent Members of the Legislative Assembly and one Independent Member-elect of the Legislative Assembly, and could form a minority government.
The Australian Labor Party was pleased to enter into a formal memorandum of understanding with the Independent Members for Mildura and Gippsland West, and the Independent Member-elect for Gippsland East, based on their Independents' Charter Victoria 1999.
Mr Hamer also noted that, with two-thirds of their members from the House, major parties take their direction from action there, and again suggested that the Senate would perform a better function if senators aspired not to be Ministers, but to head Committees undertaking major work, and to gain public and peer recognition for it.
www.cs.mu.oz.au /~lee/prsa/qn/1999d.html   (2812 words)

  
 Nelson - Political Science-Government and Politics on the Web/Electoral Systems
When the results are added up across a province or the whole country, there are usually significant discrepancies between the share of votes won by the political parties and their share of seats in the legislature.
Voters mark their ballots preferentially, and several members are declared elected for each riding after they have reached a certain quota of the counted votes.
In mixed systems, a portion of the legislature's seats are filled through single member plurality elections, while the rest are filled from party lists according to each party's share of the vote.
www.nelson.com /nelson/polisci/electsys.html   (1079 words)

  
 Resources on Australia and New Zealand
Australian Embassy, Washington, D.C. The Australian Embassy provides diverse information on political, cultural, and economic subjects and activities of interest to both Australia and the United States.
Established in the University of London in 1982, the Centre is endowed by the Australian Government with additional funding from Monash University, the Menzies Memorial Foundation, and subscriptions from a number of Australian universities.
A list of resources created by the The School of Politics, International Relations & the Environment at Keele University.
www.utexas.edu /depts/cas/other.html   (745 words)

  
 NSW Teachers Federation: General: Members of the House of Representatives
ALP leader Kim Beazley’s solid rejection of Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) provides a stark point of distinction between federal Labor and the federal Coalition.
Members in all workplaces near a rally have been authorised to strike for half a day with other workplaces urged to send delegates where this is feasible.
This list was posted posted in December 2002--For latest list follow the link to the House of Representatives below.
www.nswtf.org.au /general/hr.html   (230 words)

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