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	New South Wales Legislative Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia.
		The Legislative Assembly was created in 1856 with the introduction of a bi-cameral parliament.
		Two years later, the Electoral Reform Act, which was passed despite the opposition of the Legislative Council, saw the introduction of a far more democratic system, allowing anyone who had been resident in the colony for six months the right to vote, and removing property requirements in order to stand as a candidate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_South_Wales_Legislative_Assembly (360 words)

	NEW SOUTH WALES - LoveToKnow Article on NEW SOUTH WALES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		New South Wales is bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the E., by Queensland on the N., by South Australia on the W. and by Victoria on the S. It lies between 28 and 38 S. lat., and 141 and 154 E. long.
		South of Sydney the rivers are of less importance; the principal is the Shoalhaven, 260 m.
		In the extreme south-east of New South Wales, at the head of the Genoa river, are sandstones with Archaeopleris howilti, which are an extension of the Lower Devonian beds of Victoria; while farther to the east, at Eden and Twofold Bay, are Upper Devonian sandstones.
	96.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEW_SOUTH_WALES.htm (8772 words)

	Footnotes; Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Volume III: Library of Economics and Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The constitution of New South Wales, the oldest of the Australasian colonies, is embodied in the act 18 and 19 Vict., cap.
		The number of electors on the roll of the legislative council was increased by the action of the bill of 1881 from 33,105 to about 110,000; the number of electors for the legislative assembly was 176,022, according to the latest returns.
		The new cabinet of the 1st of June was formed from the liberal opposition; Braamcamp, the leader of the historians, occupied the position of president and of minister of foreign affairs.
	www.econlib.org /LIBRARY/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCyNotes3.html (17887 words)

	Key Dates - Parliament of Victoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		November 24 Introduction of universal manhood suffrage for electors of the Legislative Assembly.
		Legislative Council membership reduced to 35, number of Electoral Provinces increased to 17; there would be two legislative councillors for each Electoral Province, and a single legislative councillor to represent public servants and railway workers.
		She stood for the Legislative Assembly seat of Barwon as a Labor candidate in the election of 26 June 1924 (gaining 30.46% of the vote).
	www.parliament.vic.gov.au /key.html (1017 words)

	Electoral district of Pittwater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pittwater is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales.
		The first member elected to the seat was Sir Robert William Askin, then Premier of New South Wales.
		The seat was famously held by New South Wales Opposition Leader John Brogden from 1996 until his resignation in 2005, but was lost in the resulting by-election when then-Mayor of Pittwater Council, Alex McTaggart, defeated Liberal candidate Paul Nicolaou in a landslide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electoral_district_of_Pittwater (202 words)

	Information Sheet No.17 - Legislative Council's Electoral System 1851-2003 - Parliament of Victoria
		In 1922 Legislative Council Members first received a wage (£200 per year), the minimum age for a Member was reduced to 21 years of age in 1937 and in 1950 universal adult suffrage was adopted in the Legislative Council.
		Voting in Legislative Council elections was not compulsory until 1935 (voting became compulsory in the Legislative Assembly in 1926).
		An important subsidiary issue to the introduction of compulsory voting in the Legislative Assembly was the decision in 1926 to hold elections on Saturdays for both Houses of the Victorian legislature.
	www.parliament.vic.gov.au /council/info_sheets/Old_system.htm (2036 words)

	2905.0 - Statistical Geography: Volume 2 - Census Geographic Areas, Australia, 2001
		New South Wales has two Houses of Parliament but only the Legislative Assembly (lower House) electoral districts are represented in the SED classification since the Legislative Council (upper House) is a single constituency.
		In Victoria, the Legislative Council (upper House) Provinces are obtained by amalgamating the Legislative Assembly (lower House) electoral districts.
		Like New South Wales, in South Australia, there are two Houses of Parliament but only the House of Assembly (lower House) electoral districts are represented in the SED classification since the Legislative Council (upper House) is a single constituency.
	www.abs.gov.au /AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/66f306f503e529a5ca25697e0017661f/F345CC5430744880CA256C2500036F6C?opendocument (687 words)

	Barry McGowan \| Class, Hegemony and Localism : the Southern Mining Region of New South Wales, 1850–1900 \| Labour ...
		New deposits were found, but more importantly there was a dramatic reduction in the licence fee and Chinese miners arrived en masse, bringing with them both money and expertise.
		The main concerns of the new Committee were the construction of a bridge over the Boorowa River, road repairs and a police quarters and lockup, the appointment of a police magistrate to attend a court of petty sessions, and the construction of a weather shed for the public school.
		The region ranges broadly from Goulburn in the north to Harden in the west, Cooma to the south and Braidwood in the east.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/86/mcgowan.html (10873 words)

	Parliament of Australia:Senate:Publications - Can Responsible Government Surive In Australia?
		As new provinces joined, or the population increased, the number of members of the House of Commons was increased from 181 in 1867 to 301 in 2000.
		New South Wales then used the opportunity to press for some changes to the draft Constitution, which were considered at a special premiers’ conference in January 1899.
		For instance, in John Howard’s electorate the voting was strongly ‘yes’, despite the fact that Howard was opposed to the republic, while in Kim Beazley’s electorate the voting was strongly ‘no’, despite the leader of the opposition’s campaign in favour of the republic.
	www.aph.gov.au /SENATE/pubs/hamer/chap02.htm (16317 words)

	Quota Notes, September 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		New Zealand First's share of seats is proportional to its vote, and the electoral system that ensured that was decisively carried at a recent referendum of New Zealand voters.
		The system has never been directly put to voters for their choice between it and its predecessor, as was New Zealand's - its democratic basis is the power to legislate for an electoral system that was given to the Federal Parliament by the democratic (in the context of the times) adoption of the 1901 Constitution.
		On 4th September, the Legislative Council passed a resolution instructing its President and two other MLCs to inform the Premier of the principles it will insist on if it forgoes some of its current unparalleled powers over legislation for a suspensory veto in which disagreements can be resolved by referendum or dissolution of the Assembly.
	www.cs.mu.oz.au /~lee/prsa/qn/1997c.html (3101 words)

	The Early Days
		President of Legislative Council and Speaker of Legislative Assembly sworn in.
		From 1836 to 1851 the region was a district of New South Wales administered from Sydney.
		In 1857 universal manhood suffrage was introduced for Legislative Assembly voters while all property qualifications for candidates to the Lower House were also abolished (these reforms were not adopted in the Upper House until 1950).
	www.victoria.org.au /History.htm (2883 words)

	Electoral Council of Australia - Electoral Systems- New South Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Members elected for the duration of 2 Parliaments with 21 members retiring at elections held at the same time as general elections for the Legislative Assembly.
		Voting compulsory for electors who are enrolled for the State.
		Conducted by "Electoral Districts Commission", Supreme Court Judge (current or retired), Surveyor General and Electoral Commissioner.
	www.eca.gov.au /systems/australia/by_area/nsw.htm (216 words)

	ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE DEMOCRACY IN AUSTRALIA 26 MARCH 1999
		On 16 August 1853, John Bayley Darvall, the member for the County of Cumberland in the New South Wales Legislative Council, presented a petition to the Council signed by 2,630 inhabitants of the city of Sydney.
		If New South Wales were to have an aristocracy, he concluded, let it not resemble ‘that of William the Bastard but of Jack the Strapper’ (Headon and Perkins 1998).
		New South Wales Constitution Bill The Speeches in the Legislative Council of New South Wales on the Second Reading of the Bill for Framing a New Constitution for the Colony Sydney: Thomas Daniel.
	www.manningclark.org.au /papers/wentworth.html (2857 words)

	Western Australian Electoral Commission
		The Legislative Assembly has members elected from 57 single member electoral districts (34 metro, 23 country).
		Each of the six colonial governments was made responsible for a range of government activities, other than such matters as defence and foreign policy, which were kept in the hands of the British Government.
		So each colony was mapped out into municipalities and shires, in which the property owners were given the right to elect a council to decide what works were necessary, to levy rates to pay for them and to employ people to carry them out.
	www.waec.wa.gov.au /education/factSheet15.htm?section=education&content=factSheet15.htm (926 words)

	LRQ: March 1998
		The New South Wales State Parliament and ATSIC are at the forefront of the latest push for Indigenous seats.
		The New South Wales Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues is inquiring into Aboriginal representation in Parliament and will complete its report later this year.
		New South Wales Attorney-General, Jeff Shaw also applauds the New Zealand system as a possibility for New South Wales.
	www.faira.org.au /lrq/archives/199803/stories/djerrkura.html (1297 words)

	Documenting Democracy
		The New South Wales Constitution Act 1855 had provided the legal framework to establish representative government in Queensland from the time the new Colony was created in 1859.
		The summonsing of a first Legislative Assembly was set in motion by proclamation on 20 December 1859, dividing the Colony into electoral districts, setting up an electoral roll, and the calling of the first election at a date not more than six months after the Colony was proclaimed.
		The parliamentary and electoral process Bowen implemented created a political system similar to that in force in New South Wales, which had been granted representative and responsible government with a male franchise under the New South Wales Constitution Act 1855.
	www.foundingdocs.gov.au /item.asp?sdID=49 (653 words)

	Center for Voting and Democracy
		Summary: In the New South Wales region of Australia, which includes Sydney, small parties are gaining ground on the biggest three parties (Labor, Liberal, and National.) The Parliament of New South Wales is divided into two houses, the Legislative Assembly, or lower house, and the legislative council, or upper house.
		Elections to the lower house are divided into 93 single member districts, using instant runoff voting, and the upper house is elected by choice voting in one state-wide district.
		In 1999, he says, the massive increase in candidates was partly the result of the upper house ballot, as parties like Unity, One Nation, the Greens, Australian Democrats and Christian Democrats also contested lower house seats to maximise the number of votes in the upper house.
	www.fairvote.org /pr/global/australiamiceroar.htm (837 words)

	Government Guide -- Australian Government Publications
		Before 1904, New South Wales parliamentary papers were bound with the Votes and Proceedings and the Journals.
		G.NSW NEW South Wales G Government gazette of the state of New South Wales Sydney: Government Printer 1832-1914; 1948; 1961-8/5/92 (Imperfect) (Pre 1901 volumes are in Storage at DST 05683) Law 1974- WWW access to the current NSW Government gazettes.
		Fisher MIC NEW South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and 929.394 Marriages 1 NSW Registry of births, deaths and marriages pre 1956 to 1905.
	www.library.usyd.edu.au /subjects/government/ausgov.html (6226 words)

	Constitution (Parliamentary Reform) Bill: Victoria [March 2003] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		(b) have a boundary that is contiguous with the boundaries of the districts that constitute the region.
		Enclosing the districts of Bentleigh, Brighton, Burwood, Carrum, Caulfield, Clayton, Malvern, Mordialloc, Mount Waverley, Oakleigh, Sandringham
		University of Ballarat Act 1993In section 3 of the University of Ballarat Act 1993, in the definition of "Ballarat region", for "province for the Legislative Council of Victoria of Ballarat" substitute "districts for the Legislative Assembly of Victoria of Ballarat East and Ballarat West".
	www.australianpolitics.com /states/vic/2003/parliamentary-reform-bill.shtml (12271 words)

	Welsh History
		There was still tension between north and south Wales, between the thousands of English immigrants and the hard-line, mostly Welsh-speaking nationalists.
		The main points of the Labour Government’s White Paper, published in July, 1997 to establish a directly-elected Assembly which would have responsibility for policies and public services in Wales are as follows: Sixty members (40 to be elected; 20 to be chosen by proportional representation).
		The Assembly was to be granted secondary legislative powers; non-government agencies were to be democratized, and the Welsh language was to be granted equal status with English.
	www.suite101.com /lesson.cfm/17851/1278/3 (705 words)

	QN1998A_ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In mid-1997 the Federal Parliament legislated for the quota-preferential method of proportional representation to be used for electing half the delegates to Australia's 1998 Constitutional Convention.
		He claimed that this new approach was to counter ALP policy to 'dominate the Legislative Council by stealth', and to pursue the goal of having a Legislative Council 'more responsive to the development of Tasmania' (QN62, QN70, QN1996B).
		Single-member electorates are used for the House of Assembly, yet there is now, as a result of this election, a minority government, with the Liberals needing the support of at least one of the two Independents or the one National.
	www.cs.mu.oz.au /~lee/prsa/qn/1998a.html (2662 words)

	PR Analyses of Parliamentary Elections
		By contrast with New South Wales, all 30 MLCs in Victoria were directly elected from 1855, the date on which Victoria gained a Legislative Assembly (all 60 of that Assembly's members were directly elected), by force of The Constitution Act 1855, which formed Schedule 1 of the Imperial Act 18 and 19 Vict.
		The Legislative Assembly's 60 MLAs were elected from 37 districts whenever the Assembly was dissolved, or on its expiry after its five year maximum life.
		countback for one of the seven seats in the House of Assembly for the electorate of Denison was necessitated by the resignation of Dr Norman Sanders, who had been elected to that house in 1982.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~prsa/elections/pr_el_an.htm (1046 words)

	Party Politics Vol. 9, Issue 6, p. 679 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is consistent with the current nature of party organization and electoral campaigning which are system-wide and embrace every opportunity for partisan competition.
		Uncontested seats at parliamentary elections are associated with earlier stages of representative government before parties emerged in their current form and local notables could dominate electoral contests to the point of precluding rivals.
		Once political parties become major players in electoral contests, other factors may lead to a few uncontested seats; the electoral system may have limited effective competition or a party may have been so dominant in some electoral districts as to forestall competition from the candidates of other parties.
	www.partypolitics.org /volume09/v09i6p679.htm (368 words)

	Electoral Council of Australia - Electoral Systems- Number of Members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Note: The Territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands are included on the Northern Territory only for Commonwealth electoral purposes.
		Governor-general (the Governor-general has certain reserve powers and can disallow legislation, recommend amendments to legislation and under extreme circumstance dissolve the Assembly.)
		(The Chief Minister is elected by the Assembly and exercises a number of powers normally exercised by a Governor including appointment of Ministers and signing law into effect.)
	www.eca.gov.au /systems/australia/by_category/number_members.htm (214 words)

	State Electoral Redistribution - 20/05/1997 - QWN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Is the Treasurer aware that under section 28A of the Constitution Act a distribution of New South Wales into electoral districts shall be made forthwith after more than one quarter of the number of electoral districts has been malapportioned?
		The situation now is that 35 per cent of districts are malapportioned.
		No. To be absolutely honest, Mr President, I am not aware of that fact, but I will take the honourable member’s word for it.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC19970520016 (142 words)

	New South Wales Family History - Document Index
		Electoral Roll for the Electoral District of Gwydir, Police District of Warialda 1861-62 (Votes and Proceedings of the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly - 4 pages)
		Clerk of petty sessions Armidale for appointment of a police magistrate (Votes & Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly 1858 - 59)
		Petition against the return of James Hart as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Electoral District of New England (NSW Government Gazette 1859)
	www.ihr.com.au /documents.html (2379 words)

	School Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To access the official website which has been created to inform the public about the Centenary of Federation, click here.
		1.The Role of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales
		8.Hansard in the Parliament of New South Wales
	www.michaelrichardson.com.au /schoolprojects.htm (153 words)

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