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	Western Australian Legislative Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia.
		The Legislative Assembly was the first elected legislature in Western Australia, having been created in 1891, when Western Australia gained self-government.
		In 1921, Edith Cowan became the first woman to be elected to parliament anywhere in Australia when she won the Legislative Assembly seat of West Perth for the Nationalist Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Australian_Legislative_Assembly (606 words)

	Australian PR
		The Australian Federal government consists of three major parts: a bicameral Legislature comprised of the House of Representatives (the Lower House) and the Senate (the Upper House), an Executive (Governor-General) who is the representative of the Queen, and the Judiciary.
		The Australian Labor Party is on the left of the political spectrum and represents a variety of Australian society.
		Australian government is still very much in the control of the party who can garner the highest majority in a single member electorate.
	www.duke.edu /web/poli/classes/proprep/australiatext.htm (1102 words)

	Western Australian Legislative Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia.
		In 1850, the British Government passed an Act that permitted the Australian colonies to establish Legislative Councils that were one-third nominated and two-thirds elected, but only under the condition that the colonies take responsibility for the costs of their own government.
		When Western Australia gained responsible government in 1890, a bicameral system was adopted, and the Legislative Council became a house of review for legislation passed by the Legislative Assembly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Australian_Legislative_Council (765 words)

	National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame - Alice Springs, Northern Territory
		Australian women first voted in a federal election on 16 December 1903 (although Aboriginal women were not entitled to vote until 1967).
		Elected to South Australia's Legislative Council in 1959, she was the first female member of the SA parliament beating Joyce Steele, who had been elected to the House of Assembly the same day, by only an hour.
		First Australian Democrat Senator from 1977-1978, she was later appointed leader of the Australian Democrats in 1986, the first female leader of an Australian parliamentary political party.
	www.pioneerwomen.com.au /womensplace.htm (800 words)

	Northern Territory Legislative Assembly - NT Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		According to the notice, the Legislative Assembly was 'to assemble and beholden for the dispatch of diverse urgent and important affairs'.
		The Legislative Assembly shall consider the amendments recommended by the Administrator and the proposed law, with those or any other amendments or without amendments, may be presented again to the Administrator for assent.
		The Legislative Assembly shall consider the amendments recommended by the Governor-General and the proposed law, with those or any other amendments or without amendments, may be presented again to the Administrator for assent.
	www.nt.gov.au /lant/parliament/nt.shtml (2973 words)

	THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SECESSIONIST MOVEMENT - [2003] MqLJ 6; (2003) 3 Macquarie Law Journal 95
		Western Australia had only become a self-governing colony in 1890, and its leaders were reluctant to give up any of the political power which their colony had only so recently attained.
		The Western Australian delegates who attended the constitutional conventions of 1891 and 1897-98 were drawn for the most part from the traditional elements of Western Australian society.
		Western Australia’s petition to secede was presented to the Imperial Parliament in November 1934 and its supporters were supremely confident that the petition would be received and acted upon.
	www.austlii.edu.au /au/journals/MqLJ/2003/6.html (15521 words)

	The Western Australian System of Government
		It is bicameral; that is, it comprises two Houses: the Legislative Assembly (commonly known as the lower House) and the Legislative Council (commonly known as the upper House).
		The Legislative Assembly traditionally is referred to as the Lower House of Parliament.
		The Legislative Council traditionally is referred to as the Upper House of Parliament.
	www.anawa.org.au /politics/wa-government.html (300 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Geoffrey Ian Gallop (born 27 September 1951), Australian academic and former politician, was the Premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006.
		He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Victoria Park in 1986.
		Gallop is a strong supporter of the movement for an Australian republic, and took a leading role in the push for a directly-elected President during the 1998 Constitutional Convention in Canberra.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Geoff_Gallop (510 words)

	Legislative Assembly Summary
		In Quebec, the Legislative Assembly was renamed the National Assembly after the Legislative Council was abolished in 1968.
		The Legislative Assembly would be made up of representatives elected by Electors, who were elected by active citizens: a male citizen who paid annual taxes equal to the local wages paid for three days of labor.
		The Legislative Assembly convened in a hall; the conservatives sat on the right side while the radicals were seated in the left.
	www.bookrags.com /Legislative_Assembly (969 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.
		As part of the celebrations for the 175th anniversary of the proclamation of the Swan River colony and the State Parliament Building’s centenary, the Western Australian Legislative Assembly staged a regional sitting in Albany on Tuesday, 23 March and Wednesday, 24 March 2004.
	www.parliament.vic.gov.au /council/info_sheets/Regional_sittings.htm (1658 words)

	The Samuel Griffith Society: Volume 3: Chapter Five
		By the 1880s the adult Australian population included a majority of nativeborn, and as males of this generation attained political prominence they spoke the rhetoric of a new nationalism; a nationalism whose symbols were provided for many by the work of the Heidelberg painters in Melbourne and the Bulletin writers in Sydney.
		Underlying this curious logic was the assumption that it was the duty of the good citizen to promote economic growth, to secure the welfare of his [sic] children, and to strive for a society free of the wrangling which had characterised the relations of the Commonwealth Government and the States.
		It was not until the mineral boom of the 1960s began to tilt the balance of economic and demographic growth away from southeastern Australia to Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory that the pretensions of the States began to revive.
	www.samuelgriffith.org.au /papers/html/volume3/v3chap5.htm (2956 words)

	Women in politics - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		Edith Cowan - a pioneer for women's and children's rights at the turn of the century - became the very first woman to enter any Australian parliament when she was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in 1921.
		In 1986, Janine Haines became the first women to lead an Australian political party when she was elected leader of the Australian Democrats.
		Senator Amanda Vanstone, a South Australian, is the senior woman in John Howard's Government who has had responsibility for the portfolio of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs since October 2003.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/womeninpolitics (1163 words)

	RangeVoting.org - Australian politics
		The Australian Democrats, Greens, One Nation, Family First, Christian Democrats) are often able to hold Senate seats thanks to the multiwinner PR system used to elect it, but have usually been unable to hold House seats thanks to the fact that they are elected using IRV.
		We conclude that third parties are almost totally unsuccessful in Australian IRV seats (1 seat out of 564) but independents have won 33 seats (5%).
		According to Australians who helped us, the Independents usually got there, just like in the USA, by having disputes with their major parties causing them to part ways.
	rangevoting.org /AustralianPol.html (787 words)

	Australian DemocratsAustralian Democrat Speeches
		He went on to say that the Australian Labor Party had stood for one vote, one value electoral equality for 100 years and did not intend to walk away from its commitment to that principle, remaining totally committed to electoral equality.
		We as Australians have an obligation in international law to ensure that basic standards of democracy are observed throughout Australia.
		It is untenable to resolutely defend the right of all Australians to vote, while at the same time supporting a system where the votes of some people in one part of the country count for up to four times the votes of others.
	www.democrats.org.au /speeches/index.htm?speech_id=1580 (1368 words)

	Part 1 - Debates - Thursday 26 February 2004
		The Presiding Officers and Clerks of all Australian parliaments, the Northern Territory Auditor-General, the Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, and the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission received formal advice of the reference and were invited to provide a written submission.
		The amendments made by the committee to the draft code as proposed in the document tabled by the Chief Minister adhere to those fundamental objectives and include the range of principles and specific standards that were set out in that draft including four major principles established by the code: integrity, accountability, responsibility and public interest.
		Madam Speaker, in line with the provisions of the new electoral legislation, it is proposed that this material be made available for all future candidates for election to this Assembly.
	notes.nt.gov.au /lant/hansard/hansard9.nsf/webSearchView/696D605E32B9315969256E6800413B5C?opendocument (1207 words)

	Civics \| Electoral events timeline
		Australian Colonies Government Act passed by British government, providing for part-elected Legislative Councils in Victoria, South Australia, Van Diemen's Land and the future Western Australian Council.
		Indigenous Australians were excluded from enrolment and voting unless they already had the franchise in their states.
		In 1962 Indigenous Australians were given the right to enrol to vote but this was not compulsory.
	civicsandcitizenship.edu.au /cce/default.asp?id=10033 (852 words)

	Cardell-Oliver, Dame Annie Florence Gillies (1876 - 1965) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
		Having been defeated in 1934 by John Curtin for the seat of Fremantle in the House of Representatives, Cardell-Oliver (as she now styled herself) was returned in February 1936 to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as the Nationalist member for Subiaco: she defeated two other endorsed Nationalists and the Labor sitting member on preferences.
		A vigorous debater with independent views, in 1939 she organized a campaign to oppose the establishment of free birth-control clinics, and, in opposition to her party, on 3 September 1941 unsuccessfully moved for the abolition of the death penalty.
		She was a member of the Victoria League, the Royal Institute of Great Britain, and the Karrakatta and Perth clubs, was president of the Women Painters' Society of Western Australia and of the Western Australian Women's Hockey Association, and represented her Subiaco parish on the Anglican diocesan synod.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A130406b.htm (840 words)

	Launching Webdiary and Club Chaos in Western Australia
		It was not before one of those hundreds of Australians working on this project remained dissatisfied by the response to her complaint against the Sydney Morning Herald and took The Sydney Morning Herald Fairfax outlet to the Press Council tribunal, that we got a result.
		The Australian Press Council as a result of this action then finally issued an adjudication and ruled that the "illegal" label of refugees arriving by boat and unannounced on our shores constitutes "incorrect reporting".
		On 19 February 2004 Burnside claims that Ruddock, Vanstone and Howard are guilty of crimes against humanity under Australian legislation at a Melbourne Rotary breakfast.
	www.safecom.org.au /wd-freo-launch.htm (2958 words)

	The Poll Bludger
		Opinion polling for the Western Australian election has been disappointingly thin on the ground in the past week or two, with only anecdotal evidence available to measure the impact of the Coalition’s circuit-breaking canal proposal.
		State elections are a different matter, since state lower houses have far fewer members (57 in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly compared with 150 in the House of Representatives) and independents have an easier time getting elected due to the smaller sizes of electorates.
		There were four independent members elected to the Legislative Assembly in 2001, two of whom are standing for re-election and two of whom are not.
	www.pollbludger.com /208 (1245 words)

	Kangkushot - Pilbara Indigenous strike leader farewelled (1920-2006) : Melbourne Indymedia
		In the Western Australian Legislative Assembly on 12 September 2006, parliament held a minutes silence in remembrance of three public personalities: Steve Irwin, Peter Brock and Peter Coppin.
		At the funeral Sheila McHale said in tribute "He fought strongly for his culture and language, gaining the respect of both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community," Jon Ford, Minister for the Pilbara, said WA had lost a man of great knowledge and wisdom.
		Former Western Australian premier Peter Dowding, who was a friend of the Indigenous leader, said the country had lost one of its heroes.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2006/09/123645.php (1030 words)

	Notes - Alf Morgans
		Alf Morgans was born at Ochr Chwith Machen Lower, Monmouthshire in Wales on 17 February 1850.
		Morgans came to Western Australia in 1896 as a representative of Morgans Syndicate Ltd. He acquired numerous properties and mining interests throughout the state, including Westralia Mount Morgans, and he was widely considered an authority on mining investment.
		On 4 May 1897, Morgans was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Coolgardie.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Aberdonia4407/alf-morgans-notes.html (476 words)

	Women and the Right To Vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Aboriginal Australians were not granted the full franchise at the Federal level until 1962.
		At the Federation referendums of the late-1890s and the first Federal Election in 1901, only women from South Australia and Western Australia were entitled to vote.
		She was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly district of West Perth in 1921 and held the seat until 1924.
	www.australianpolitics.com /voting/franchise/women.shtml (181 words)

	The Australian: Martial rule not harming Thailand: coup leader [ 11oct06 ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Western nations and human rights groups denounced the coup as a setback to democracy and have urged the current government to quickly lift restrictions imposed by the military, including curbs on press freedoms and limits on public gatherings and political assembly.
		In another sign of the military's continued presence, Sondhi said that his Council for National Security had selected the 250 members to serve as Thailand's interim National Legislative Assembly, or lower house of Parliament, which under normal times is an elected body.
		The military ousted Thaksin while he was attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /printpage/0,5942,20562343,00.html (494 words)

	IPS Seminar on Parliamentary Diplomacy : The Australian Way (Parliamentary Delegation)
		In June 1999, she was part of the of6cial Australian delegation of Election Observers which travelled to Indonesia.
		Senator Lightfoot was chosen by the Western Australian Parliament in May 1997 to represent that State in the Senate, to replace J.H. Panizza (deceased).
		He has served on numerous Senate and Western Australian $tate parliamentary committees that have covered a range of portfolio areas including the environment, communications, recreation, the arts, finance and public administration, foreign affairs defence and trade, community issues, electoral matters, superannuation and competition policy He also takes a particular interest in regional and trade issues.
	www.parliamentofbangladesh.org /IPS_Committee_Conference/ips-42AusDelegation.htm (1056 words)

	Pictures of How-To-Vote Cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The picture on the left is of a how-to-vote-card issued by the ALP in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Vasse for the February 10, 2001 election.
		On the right hand side of the card, the ALP has shown preferences for the Legislative Council election in the South West Region.
		The picture on the right is of a how-to-vote card issued by the ALP in the Queensland Legislative Assembly seat of Cook for the february 17, 2001 election.
	www.australianpolitics.com /elections/htv/htv-cards-pictures.shtml (224 words)

	Turnbull, Hilda Margaret - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
		Hilda Turnbull graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB BS) from the University of Western Australia.
		She worked as a general medical practitioner before being elected as a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in 1989.
		Western Australian Shadow Minister for Family and Youth
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P004381b.htm (122 words)

	Senate Group Voting Tickets (Research Note 6 1999-2000)
		The two legislatures elected by the Hare-Clark system (Tasmanian House of Assembly and ACT Legislative Assembly) are the only cases where the use of proportional representation does not include Group Voting Tickets.
		Ticket voting has also been used in single member systems; three by-elections for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in 1988 (Ascot, Balga and Dale) were conducted using voting tickets.
		A feature of the table is the similarity between the Australian Labor Party and the Coalition parties and the differences between these parties and the Australian Democrats and the Greens.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn06.htm (1044 words)

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