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Lee Rhiannon

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Lee Rhiannon (born 30 May 1951) is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for New South Wales since July 1, 2011, after being elected at the 2010 federal election, representing the Australian Greens. [1]

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ABC News (Australia)

ABC News is a national news service in Australia produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Australian Associated Press

Australian Associated Press (AAP) is an Australian news agency.

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Australian Catholic University

Australian Catholic University (ACU) is a publicly funded university with seven campuses around Australia.

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Australian Electoral Commission

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is the federal independent agency in charge of organising, conducting and supervising federal elections and referendums.

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Australian federal election, 2010

A federal election was held on Saturday, 21 August 2010 for members of the 43rd Parliament of Australia.

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Australian Greens

The Australian Greens (commonly known as The Greens) is a green political party in Australia.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

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Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is Australia's national security agency responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, attacks on the Australian defence system, and terrorism.

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Australian Senate

The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.

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Balance of power (parliament)

In parliamentary politics, the term balance of power may describe a parliamentary situation in which a member or a number of members of chamber are in a position by their uncommitted vote to enable a party to attain and remain in minority government, and the term may also be applied to the members who hold that position.

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Bob Brown

Robert James Brown (born 27 December 1944) is a former Australian politician, medical doctor, and environmentalist who is a former Senator, and former Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens.

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Bob Carr

Robert John Carr (born 28 September 1947) is a former Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005, as the leader of the Labor Party.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (also known as the BDS Movement) is a global campaign promoting various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets what the campaign describes as " obligations under international law", defined as withdrawal from the occupied territories, removal of the separation barrier in the West Bank, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and promotion of the right of return of Palestinian refugees.

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Casual vacancy

In politics, a casual vacancy (casual in the sense of "by chance") is a situation in which a seat in a deliberative assembly becomes vacant during that assembly's term.

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Cate Faehrmann

Cate Faehrmann (born 17 March 1970) is an environmental activist.

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Catholic Bishops and Archbishops of Sydney

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney has had a number of Bishops and Archbishops since 1842.

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Catholic News Service

Catholic News Service (CNS) is an American news agency that reports on the Roman Catholic Church.

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Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government or occupying international power.

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Communist Party of Australia

The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991.

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Communist Party of Australia (current)

The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) is a minor political party in Australia which was founded in 1971 as the Socialist Party of Australia (SPA) by former members of the Communist Party of Australia who resigned or were expelled from that party as a result of their opposition to policy changes.

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Contempt of Parliament

In some countries, contempt of Parliament is the offence of obstructing the legislature in the carrying out of its functions, or of hindering any legislator in the performance of his or her duties.

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Cross City Tunnel

The Cross City Tunnel is a 2.1 km-long twin-tunnel tollway located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, which is operated by Transurban.

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Dawes Point, New South Wales

Dawes Point is a suburb of the City of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Embryonic stem cell

Embryonic stem cells (ES cells or ESCs) are pluripotent stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, an early-stage pre-implantation embryo.

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Freda Brown

Freda Yetta Brown (9 June 1919 – 26 May 2009) was an Australian political activist who was a member of the Communist Party of Australia and later the Socialist Party.

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George Pell

George Pell (born 8 June 1941) is an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church.

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Goods and services tax (Australia)

The goods and services tax (GST) in Australia is a value added tax of 10% on most goods and services sales, with some exemptions (such as for certain food, healthcare and housing items) and concessions (including qualifying long term accommodation which is taxed at an effective rate of 5.5%).

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Greens New South Wales

The Greens New South Wales is the state Greens party in New South Wales and a member party of the Australian Greens.

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Higher School Certificate (New South Wales)

The Higher School Certificate (HSC) is the credential awarded to secondary school students who successfully complete senior high school level studies (Years 11 and 12 or equivalent) in New South Wales, Australia.

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Holy See

The Holy See (Santa Sede; Sancta Sedes), also called the See of Rome, is the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, the episcopal see of the Pope, and an independent sovereign entity.

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Howard Government

The Howard Government refers to the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister John Howard between 11 March 1996 and 3 December 2007.

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Ian Cohen

Ian Cohen (born 5 June 1951) is a former Australian politician and member of the Greens New South Wales.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Left Renewal

Left Renewal is a tendency and/or political faction that exists within the Australian Greens, primarily the NSW Greens branch, which was established publicly in late 2016.

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Mark Aarons

Mark Aarons (born 25 December 1951) is an Australian journalist and author.

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Mehreen Faruqi

Mehreen Saeed Faruqi is a Pakistani-born Australian politician.

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Michael Costa (politician)

Michael Costa (born 15 July 1956) is a former Australian Labor politician.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New South Wales Electoral Commission

The New South Wales Electoral Commission is the statutory agency with responsibility for the administration, organisation, and supervision of elections in New South Wales for state government, local government, industrial and Aboriginal organisations, and registered clubs and statutory bodies.

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New South Wales Legislative Council

The New South Wales Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales.

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New South Wales state election, 1999

Elections to the 52nd Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday, 27 March 1999.

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Next Australian federal election

The next Australian federal election will elect members of the 46th Parliament of Australia.

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Parliament House, Canberra

Parliament House is the meeting place of the Parliament of Australia, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

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Parliament of New South Wales

The Parliament of New South Wales, located in Parliament House on Macquarie Street, Sydney, is the main legislative body in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW).

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Pine Gap

Pine Gap is the commonly used name for an Australian Earth station approximately south-west of the town of Alice Springs, Northern Territory in the centre of Australia which is operated by both Australia and the United States.

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Pope

The pope (papa from πάππας pappas, a child's word for "father"), also known as the supreme pontiff (from Latin pontifex maximus "greatest priest"), is the Bishop of Rome and therefore ex officio the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Rhiannon

Rhiannon is a major figure in the Mabinogi, the medieval Welsh story collection.

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S11 (protest)

S11 refers to a series of protests against meetings of the World Economic Forum on 11, 12 and 13 September 2000 in Melbourne, Australia, where approximately 10,000 people of many ages and a wide cross section of the community were involved.

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Sydney Girls High School

Sydney Girls High School, is an academically selective public high school for girls located at Moore Park, in Sydney, NSW.

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The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

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The Australian Jewish News

The Australian Jewish News is a newspaper published in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)

The Sunday Telegraph is an Australian newspaper, the separately published Sunday edition of The Daily Telegraph.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Union of Australian Women

The Union of Australian Women (UAW) is a left-wing women's organisation concerned with local and international issues regarding women's rights, international peace and equality.

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University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales (UNSW; branded as UNSW Sydney) is an Australian public research university located in the Sydney suburb of Kensington.

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World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss nonprofit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland.

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World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade.

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Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Rhiannon

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