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	Legislative Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Legislative Council of New Brunswick (abolished in 1892)
		The Legislative Council of Nova Scotia (abolished in 1928)
		The Legislative Council of Quebec (abolished in 1968)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legislative_Council (294 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Be-Bo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In March 1879 he entered the legislative council, was elected president, and administered the government of Queensland during the absence of the governor from March to November 1880.
		A legislative council reform act was passed, which increased the number of members and reduced the qualification for franchise to all freeholders of £10 annual value.
		He was chairman of the council of the agricultural college at Roseworthy from 1895 to 1902, joined the council of the university of Adelaide in 1916, and gave £52,329 to build a great hall and £20,000 to endow a chair of law.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogBe-Bo.html (20469 words)

	Information Sheet No.15 - Regional Sittings - Legislative Council - Parliament of Victoria
		The Legislative Council sat in Ballarat and the Legislative Assembly in Bendigo: not only were these the Victorian Parliament’s first sittings outside of Melbourne in its 145 year history, these were the first meetings of any Australasian legislature outside of a capital city.
		In the case of the Legislative Council, the success of its Ballarat sitting prompted a second regional sitting on 30 October 2002 at the Benalla Town Hall.
		For the Council to be permitted to sit outside of the normal parliamentary precincts at Parliament House, Melbourne, it was necessary that the Ballarat Town Hall temporarily became part of the parliamentary precincts.
	www.parliament.vic.gov.au /council/info_sheets/Regional_sittings.htm (1658 words)

	The Ultimate Queensland Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		Queensland is a state of Australia, in the northeast of the country.
		West To the west, Queensland is bordered by the Northern Territory, at the 138 deg.
		The elected head of government is the Labor Premier, the Hon Peter Beattie who appoints an Executive Council from the members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly of 89 members (MLAs).
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Queensland (683 words)

	Queensland Government
		Queensland was first seen by Europeans in the 1600s. Dutch explorer Willem Jansz landed on the Cape York Peninsula in 1606 and in 1623 Jan Carstens explored the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		Queensland's early days were spent as part of the British-administered Colony of New South Wales which, at that time, occupied a large part of the Australian continent.
		the abolition of the Queensland Legislative Council in 1922;
	www.qld.gov.au /about_queensland/history/index.html (1618 words)

	Queensland Studies Centre
		This was because the Legislative Council, composed of unelected members appointed for life and almost exclusively representative of conservative and business interests, regularly blocked Labors attempts at social, economic and industrial reform.
		The inability to gain government funds from British sources, and this alleged 'foreign interference' with the sovereignty of Queensland and with the democratically elected government, were used by Theodore as the basis on which to fight a state election, which he brought forward to October 9, 1920.
		In his major election policy speech, Theodore promised that the Legislative Council would be abolished and announced that he 'would be the most disappointed man in Queensland if he did not win 52 seats out of 72'.
	www.gu.edu.au /centre/cpci/qs/docs/content6-link1.html (1486 words)

	Parliament@Work - Queensland
		Queensland's first Parliament was a form of Responsible Government, but it was not a democratically elected parliament like the ones that other Australian colonies had at this time.
		The shield depicted on the Queensland Coat of Arms was given to the colony in 1893 by Queen Victoria.
		Queensland's Parliament House is on the corner of George Street and Alice Street in Brisbane.
	www.parliament.curriculum.edu.au /qld.php3 (1093 words)

	November 1997 Council News
		The Council's fomer Chairman, Prof David Flint, said that he "regards this Bill as a direct attack on freedom of the press, which is the freedom of the public to be informed on matters of interest to them.
		In it, the Council referred to the inadvertent publication of material related to an accused man in a newspaper which led to a trial being aborted and a charge of contempt against the newspaper and the writer.
		Of the 399 complaints concluded by the Council in the year covered by the report, 164 (41.1 per cent) were successfully mediated or otherwise settled to the complainant's satisfaction.
	www.presscouncil.org.au /pcsite/apcnews/nov97/news.html (2335 words)

	Queensland Legislative Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Parliament of Queensland.
		The Queensland Legislative Council was the upper house of the parliament in the Australian state of Queensland, until its abolition in 1922.
		Consequently, the Queensland Legislative Assembly is the only unicameral state parliament in Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queensland_Legislative_Council (90 words)

	Paul Strangio \| Labor and Reform of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1950–2003 \| Labour History, 86 \| The ...
		The legislation's chief purpose was reform of Victorian Labor's historical nemesis, the Legislative Council.
		The history chronicled by Serle in his 1954 article suggested that the role performed by the Legislative Council in Victorian politics during its first century was exactly as the framers of Victoria's Constitution had intended it — a restraint on the democratic urges of the Legislative Assembly.
		Costar's contention that the 1984 legislation stripped the Council of the power to force an early election during the fixed three-year portion of the Assembly term is further discussed in Stone, 'Bicameralism and Democracy', pp.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/86/strangio.html (9711 words)

	Documenting Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This document is the Bill passed by both Houses of the Queensland Parliament on 3 November 1921.
		To ringing cheers from the Government benches in the Legislative Assembly, in November 1915 Premier Ryan announced the introduction of a Bill to amend the Constitution by abolishing the Legislative Council.
		In the end, the Legislative Council went quietly, after the elevation of some 30 Government appointees to its ranks between October 1917 and March 1920.
	www.foundingdocs.gov.au /item.asp?dID=63 (599 words)

	Queensland's Constitution homepage
		The Governor in Council is a title used when the Governor is acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council.
		Queensland's Constitution was previously spread over a number of Acts, laws and documents including the Letters Patent of 6 June 1859 which established Queensland as a separate colony.
		The Parliament of Queensland Act 2001 was passed as a companion Act to the new Constitution and brings together the existing laws that relate to the operation of Queensland's Legislative Assembly, its members and committees.
	www.constitution.qld.gov.au /home.htm (657 words)

	1998/ward 2
		The task of the upper house, or Legislative Council in the colonial period was to check the anticipated excesses of popular democracy, represented in the lower house, the Legislative Assembly.
		The remaining four Legislative Councils, in South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia, were all elected, and whilst the franchise was very restricted in each case, and remained so well into this century, the houses had sufficient legitimacy to resist all attempts to restrict their powers.
		The House of Representatives has no legislation or estimates committees so all bills are considered in committees of the whole house, 5 and during the Labour years, from 1983 to 1996, the use of the guillotine grew dramatically.
	www.psa.ac.uk /publications/psd/1998/ward2.htm (5903 words)

	Quota Notes Number 79
		Its Parliament ceased to include a Legislative Council, which had only ever consisted of government life appointees, in 1922, when that Council passed a Lower House bill that allowed the Council to be abolished.
		Queensland is also a State notorious for the high-handed and unaccountable style of its executive government.
		Legislation for a Convention should empower it to recommend draft Constitution Alteration Bills to the Govemor-General, who should be required to gazette the Bills, and to advise Parliament of the intention of the legislation that they be introduced by a Minister, to be considered by Parliament as possible Bills to be put to a referendum.
	www.cs.mu.oz.au /~lee/prsa/qn/79.html (2823 words)

	Queensland Courts - Supreme Court History Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Queensland Parliament donation of documentation relating to disagreements between Lutwyche J and the Queensland Legislative Council
		The Lilleys are a family which has had a great deal of influence in Queensland legal life since the days of Sir Charles Lilley, the second Chief Justice of Queensland. Indeed, the extent of this family’s involvement in the legal profession was the source of some public disquiet in the 1890s.
		This is an indication of the sorts of business a Queensland firm has dealt with over a period of over a hundred years, and the kinds of documents which were needed for running it day-to-day.
	www.courts.qld.gov.au /schp/collections (1813 words)

	Information Sheet No.2 - The President - Legislative Council - Parliament of Victoria
		The role of the President in the Legislative Council (like the Speakership in the Legislative Assembly) is more akin to the British Speakership than the Lord Chancellorship which is an office quite unique to the House of Lords.
		Although Presidents of Victoria's Legislative Council (and Speakers of the Legislative Assembly) are not, and have never been, as removed from party politics as British Speakers, their role continues to be influenced by the independent traditions of their Westminster counterpart.
		Not only is the President the Legislative Council's representative but, depending on the circumstances, he/she may also represent the interests of the State of Victoria and the Commonwealth of Australia.
	www.parliament.vic.gov.au /council/info_sheets/President.htm (2043 words)

	German Settlement in Queensland in the 19th Century
		Queensland became a separate colony from New South Wales in 1859.
		He was able to offer immigrants attractive deals, including free ship's passage, good wages, and the right to select land to the value of £12 once their compulsory period of service (usually 2 years) to a local employer was over.
		As late as 1891, in some Queensland districts the proportion of Germans marrying another German was as high as 80%.
	www.teachers.ash.org.au /dnutting/germanaustralia/e/queensland.htm (975 words)

	Walkabout - Barcaldine
		However, both the maritime and shearers' strikes were defeated when the Queensland and NSW governments sided with business interests, which were similarly amalgamating their associations to form a united front to oppose the unions.
		It is interesting to note that a number of these went on to become significant political figures: William Fothergill returned to become Chairman of Barcaldine Shire Council; William Hamilton became President of the Queensland Legislative Council and George Taylor became the Speaker of the West Australian Legislative Council.
		Like many of the museums in western Queensland it is full of memorabilia collected from locals, including a rare Edison gramophone dating from 1900, some barbed wire from the 1870s and a 1923 ticket issued by Qantas.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/QLDBarcaldine.shtml (1491 words)

	2001 Queensland Term Postcards
		The Legislative Council (Upper House) at the Queensland Parliament.
		The Council was abolished ion 23 March 1922, when the acting Governor, on the advice of the Premier, appointed enough politcallly sympathetic Legislative Councillors for the body to vote itself out of existence.
		Queensland became (and still is) the only unicameral Parliament in Australia.
	people.hws.edu /Mitchell/cards01/Parliament.html (201 words)

	Who stole question time \| The Courier-Mail
		Queensland is not alone: every state and the Commonwealth Parliament in Canberra has seen their Question Times diminished by party machinations.
		The notion that in Queensland there should be an Upper House of Review for such people is as meaningless as the notion that Catholic and Christian, Sunni and Shiite, North Korean and South Korea could ever 'consider the other better than themselves'.
		Restoring Queensland's Legislative Council would indeed be a move in the right direction.
	www.news.com.au /couriermail/story/0,,20551705-3102,00.html?from=rss (1806 words)

	Tully - Queensland - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		For five years he was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council during which time he only made one short speech.
		In 1872 the river running through the area was named after William Alcock Tully who was the under-secretary for public lands and chief commissioner of crown lands in Queensland at the time.
		Today, Tully is one of the main sugar-producing regions of Queensland with more than 22,000 ha of sugar cane extending from the Kennedy Valley in the south to Feluga in the north.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Queensland/Tully/2005/02/17/1108500203795.html (1328 words)

	An upper house for Queensland? - On Line Opinion - 11/4/2006
		The legislative council was abolished in 1922 in dubious circumstances following a referendum in which Queensland electors voted against abolition.
		All of them are popularly elected, mostly on a system of proportional representation which ensures that the political complexion of the legislative council is significantly different to that of the legislative assembly.
		At the 2004 Queensland state election, with just 47 per cent of the primary vote, the ALP secured 63 of the legislative assembly's 89 seats and a rare third term in office - and this not because of malapportionment or gerrymander but simply the result of an electoral system based on single-member constituencies.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=4332 (1125 words)

	Australia's Constitutional Milestones (Chronology 1 1999-2000)
		The range of legislative activity of the colonies was enlarged, especially in giving parliaments the power to pass laws with regard to each colony's constitution.
		The High Court suggested that the external affairs power of the Constitution gave the Commonwealth power to legislate on a matter of international concern whether or not Australia was a party to a treaty on that matter.
		Advice on legislation or legal policy issues contained in papers is provided for use in parliamentary debate and for related parliamentary purposes.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/chron/1999-2000/2000chr01.htm (2788 words)

	Queensland History
		Queensland was first seen by Europeans in the 1600s.
		Dutch explorers Willem Jansz and Jan Carstens arrived at the Gulf of Carpentaria and Cape York Peninsula in 1606 and 1623 respectively.
		The dinosaur trackways within the Lark Quarry Conservation Park are nationally significant because of their abundance and their location within an interpreted landscape and behavioural context.
	www.about-australia.com /facts/queensland/history (669 words)

	Electoral Council of Australia - Electoral Systems- Queensland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Same as for Commonwealth but must be resident in Queensland for one month, with added enrolment provision for British subjects who qualify if on roll between 1 May and 31 July 1983.
		Enrolment and voting is compulsory for electors qualified to vote for Legislative Assembly.
		Brisbane City Council is the largest Local Government in population and budget in Australia.
	www.eca.gov.au /systems/australia/by_area/qld.htm (183 words)

	Queensland's State Government
		In 1922 the Upper House, or Legislative Council, was abolished, leaving Queensland with only one House.
		Queensland's industries are represented in the symbols of a bull, ram, sheaf of wheat, gold and sugar cane.
		The President of the Legislative Council (states besides Queensland) and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, who control debates, act as spokespersons and chair sessions of parliament.
	www.beenleigss.eq.edu.au /requested_sites/stategovt (545 words)

	LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Praying that the Council will request the Governor of South Australia, Sir Eric Neal, to undertake an investigation into the State Heritage Authority Members as to their conduct in the failure to process an application accepted and acknowledged as received by the State Heritage Branch and assessed under the criteria of the Heritage Act 1933.
		Praying that the Council will stop the Government selling off our open spaces and instead ensure that a planning system is developed in consultation with the community and local government, which ensures the distribution of an adequate minimum standard of active, passive and environmental open spaces which are equitably distributed across our community.
		The purpose of this Bill is to correct a deficiency in the legislation for the collection of the national heavy vehicle registration charges.
	www.parliament.sa.gov.au /legcouncil/statsums/1997-1998.htm (5192 words)

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