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| | 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. |
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