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Adam Bandt
Adam Paul Bandt (born 11 March 1972) is an Australian politician, former industrial lawyer and acting Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens.
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Alternative Law Journal
The Alternative Law Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed law journal covering law reform.
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Andrew Wilkie
Andrew Damien Wilkie (born 8 November 1961 in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian politician and independent federal member for Denison.
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Angus & Robertson
Angus & Robertson (A&R) was a major Australian bookseller, book publisher and book printer.
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Assault rifle
An assault rifle is a selective-fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT; known as the Federal Capital Territory until 1938) is Australia's federal district, located in the south-east of the country and enclaved within the state of New South Wales.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history.
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Australian federal election, 1901
Federal elections for the inaugural Parliament of Australia were held in Australia on Friday 29 March and Saturday 30 March 1901.
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Australian federal election, 1903
Federal elections were held in Australia on 16 December 1903.
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Australian federal election, 1906
Federal elections were held in Australia on 12 December 1906.
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Australian federal election, 1910
Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 April 1910.
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Australian federal election, 1913
Federal elections were held in Australia on 31 May 1913.
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Australian federal election, 1914
Federal elections were held in Australia on 5 September 1914.
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Australian federal election, 1917
Federal elections were held in Australia on 5 May 1917.
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Australian federal election, 1919
Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 December 1919.
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Australian federal election, 1922
Federal elections were held in Australia on 16 December 1922.
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Australian federal election, 1925
Federal elections were held in Australia on 14 November 1925.
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Australian federal election, 1928
Federal elections were held in Australia on 17 November 1928.
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Australian federal election, 1929
Federal elections were held in Australia on 12 October 1929.
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Australian federal election, 1931
Federal elections were held in Australia on 19 December 1931.
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Australian federal election, 1934
Federal elections were held in Australia on 15 September 1934.
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Australian federal election, 1937
Federal elections were held in Australia on 23 October 1937.
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Australian federal election, 1940
Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 September 1940.
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Australian federal election, 1943
Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 August 1943.
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Australian federal election, 1946
Federal elections were held in Australia on 28 September 1946.
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Australian federal election, 1949
Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 December 1949.
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Australian federal election, 1951
Federal elections were held in Australia on 28 April 1951.
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Australian federal election, 1954
Federal elections were held in Australia on 29 May 1954.
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Australian federal election, 1955
Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 December 1955.
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Australian federal election, 1958
Federal elections were held in Australia on 22 November 1958.
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Australian federal election, 1961
Federal elections were held in Australia on 9 December 1961.
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Australian federal election, 1963
Federal elections were held in Australia on 30 November 1963.
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Australian federal election, 1966
Federal elections were held in Australia on 26 November 1966.
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Australian federal election, 1969
Federal elections were held in Australia on 25 October 1969.
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Australian federal election, 1972
Federal elections were held in Australia on 2 December 1972.
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Australian federal election, 1974
Federal elections were held in Australia on 18 May 1974.
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Australian federal election, 1975
Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 December 1975.
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Australian federal election, 1977
Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 December 1977.
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Australian federal election, 1980
Federal elections were held in Australia on 18 October 1980.
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Australian federal election, 1983
Federal elections were held in Australia on 5 March 1983.
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Australian federal election, 1984
Federal elections were held in Australia on 1 December 1984.
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Australian federal election, 1987
Federal elections were held in Australia on 11 July 1987, following the granting of a double dissolution on 5 June by the Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen.
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Australian federal election, 1990
Federal elections were held in Australia on 24 March 1990.
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Australian federal election, 1993
The 1993 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 37th Parliament of Australia.
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Australian federal election, 1996
The 1996 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 38th Parliament of Australia.
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Australian federal election, 1998
The 1998 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 39th Parliament of Australia.
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Australian federal election, 2001
Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 November 2001.
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Australian federal election, 2004
Federal elections were held in Australia on 9 October 2004.
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Australian federal election, 2007
Federal elections were held in Australia on 24 November 2007.
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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 federal election, 2013
A federal election to determine the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia took place on 7 September 2013.
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Australian federal election, 2016
The 2016 Australian federal election was a double dissolution election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia, after an extended eight-week official campaign period.
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Australian Federal Police
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the principal federal law enforcement agency of the Australian Government with a unique role to investigate crime and to protect the national security of the Commonwealth 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 House of Representatives committees
Parliamentary committees of the Australian House of Representatives are groups of Members of Parliament, appointed by the House of Representatives, to undertake certain specified tasks.
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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 National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a national research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.
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Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)
The Australian referendum of 27 May 1967, called by the Holt Government, approved two amendments to the Australian constitution relating to Indigenous Australians.
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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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Barnaby Joyce
Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce (born 17 April 1967) is an Australian politician.
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Bill Spooner (politician)
Sir William Henry Spooner, (23 December 1897 – 14 July 1966) was an Australian politician.
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Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee Hawke, (born 9 December 1929) is a former Australian politician who was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1983 to 1991.
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Bob Katter
Robert Carl Katter (born 22 May 1945) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1993.
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Browne–Fitzpatrick privilege case, 1955
R v Richards; Ex parte Fitzpatrick and Browne (1955) 92 CLR 157, was a legal case which eventually limited the right of privilege of the Australian Parliament.
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Cabinet of Australia
The Cabinet of Australia is the Australian Government's council of senior Ministers of the Crown, responsible to Parliament.
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Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia.
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Canberra Press Gallery
The Canberra Press Gallery, officially called the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery, is the name given to the approximately 180 journalists and their support staff, including producers, editors and camera crews, who report the workings of the Australian Parliament.
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Cathy McGowan (politician)
Catherine McGowan AO (born 29 November 1953) is an Australian politician and independent MP for the rural Victorian seat of Indi since the 2013 federal election, defeating Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella.
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Census in Australia
The census in Australia, or officially, the Census of Population and Housing, is a descriptive count of population of Australia on one night, and of their dwellings, generally held quinquennially.
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Centre Alliance
Centre Alliance is a centrist Australian political party primarily active in the state of South Australia.
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Christopher Pyne
Christopher Maurice Pyne (born 13 August 1967) is an Australian politician who has been the Liberal member for the House of Representatives seat of Sturt since the 1993 election. Upon the ascendancy of the Abbott Government at the 2013 election, Pyne entered the Cabinet of Australia and became Leader of the House and Minister for Education, renamed Minister for Education and Training from December 2014. Upon the ascendancy of the Turnbull Government at the 2015 Liberal leadership ballot, Pyne remained Leader of the House and became Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. With the reelection of the Government in 2016, Pyne became the Minister for Defence Industry.
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Chronology of Australian federal parliaments
The term of Australian parliaments is determined by the opening and dissolution (or expiration) of the House of Representatives.
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Clerk of the Australian House of Representatives
The Clerk of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia is responsible for managing the Parliamentary Department of the House of Representatives.
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Coalition (Australia)
The Coalition (or Liberal–National Coalition) is an alliance of centre-right political parties that forms one of the two major groupings in Australian federal politics.
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Commonwealth realm
A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state that is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and shares the same person, currently Queen Elizabeth II, as its head of state and reigning constitutional monarch, but retains a Crown legally distinct from the other realms.
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Constitution of Australia
The Constitution of Australia is the supreme law under which the government of the Commonwealth of Australia operates, including its relationship to the States of Australia.
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Constitutional convention (political custom)
A constitutional convention is an informal and uncodified procedural agreement that is followed by the institutions of a state.
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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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Country Liberal Party
The Country Liberal Party (CLP), officially the Country Liberals (Northern Territory), is a conservative political party in Australia founded in 1974, which operates solely in the Northern Territory.
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Crossbencher
A crossbencher is an independent or minor party member of some legislatures, such as the British House of Lords and the Parliament of Australia.
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David Feeney
David Ian Feeney (born 5 March 1970) is a former Australian politician.
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Debate chamber
A debate chamber is a room for people to discuss and debate.
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Disappearance of Harold Holt
Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, on 17 December 1967.
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Division of Batman
The Division of Batman is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.
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Division of Bennelong
The Division of Bennelong is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
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Division of Denison
The Division of Denison is an Australian electoral division in Tasmania.
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Division of Fenner
The Division of Fenner is an Australian Electoral Division in the Australian Capital Territory and the Jervis Bay Territory.
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Division of Higgins
The Division of Higgins is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria for the Australian House of Representatives.
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Division of Indi
The Division of Indi (pronounced) is an Australian Electoral Division in northeastern Victoria.
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Division of Lingiari
The Division of Lingiari is an Australian electoral division in the Northern Territory.
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Division of New England
The Division of New England is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
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Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives
In Australia, electoral districts for the Australian House of Representatives are called divisions or more commonly referred to as electorates or seats.
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Dominion
Dominions were semi-independent polities under the British Crown, constituting the British Empire, beginning with Canadian Confederation in 1867.
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Double dissolution
A double dissolution is a procedure permitted under the Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks in the bicameral Parliament of Australia between the House of Representatives (lower house) and the Senate (upper house).
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Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton, (18 January 18497 January 1920) was an Australian politician and judge who served as the first Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1901 to 1903.
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Electoral district
An electoral district, (election) precinct, election district, or legislative district, called a voting district by the US Census (also known as a constituency, riding, ward, division, electoral area, or electorate) is a territorial subdivision for electing members to a legislative body.
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Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus L'Héritier 1789 (plural eucalypti, eucalyptuses or eucalypts) is a diverse genus of flowering trees and shrubs (including a distinct group with a multiple-stem mallee growth habit) in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae.
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Executive Council (Commonwealth countries)
An Executive Council in Commonwealth constitutional practice based on the Westminster system is a constitutional organ which exercises executive power and (notionally) advises the governor or governor-general.
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Father of the Australian House of Representatives
In Australian parliamentary practice, the Father of the House of Representatives is the member of the Australian House of Representatives who has served longer, continuously, than any other currently serving member.
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Federal Executive Council (Australia)
In Australia's political system, the Federal Executive Council is a body established by Section 62 of the Australian Constitution to advise the Governor-General, and comprises, at least notionally, all current and former Commonwealth Ministers and Assistant Ministers.
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Federation
A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central (federal) government.
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First-past-the-post voting
A first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting method is one in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins.
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Fourth Menzies Ministry
The Fourth Menzies Ministry was the thirty-fifth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 19 December 1949 to 11 May 1951.
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Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states, was an Australian political party, formally organised in 1887 in New South Wales, in time for the 1887 colony election, which the party won.
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Government of Australia
The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia (also referred to as the Australian Government, the Commonwealth Government, or the Federal Government) is the government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.
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Governor-General of Australia
The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative of the Australian monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II.
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Hansard
Hansard is the traditional name of the transcripts of Parliamentary Debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.
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Harold Holt
Harold Edward Holt, (5 August 190817 December 1967), was an Australian politician who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1966 until his presumed drowning death in 1967.
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Higgins by-election, 1968
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Higgins on 24 February 1968.
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Independent politician
An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.
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Instant-runoff voting
Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a voting method used in single-seat elections with more than two candidates.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.
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John Alexander (Australian politician)
John Gilbert Alexander (born 4 July 1951) is an Australian politician and former professional tennis player. As a tennis player, Alexander reached a career-high singles rank of no. 8 in the world in 1975. He reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open singles on three occasions, and won the doubles in 1975 and 1982. He also played in the Australian team that won the 1977 Davis Cup. After the end of his playing career, Alexander worked as a tennis commentator and managed various sports-related businesses. Alexander won the Division of Bennelong for the Liberal Party at the 2010 election, and retained the seat in 2013 and 2016. He resigned effective 11 November 2017 due to constitutional ineligibility arising from his dual citizenship of the United Kingdom. He renounced his UK citizenship and stood as the Liberal Party candidate at the by-election, held on 16 December 2017, which he won.
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John Gorton
Sir John Grey Gorton (9 September 1911 – 19 May 2002) was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1968 to 1971.
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John McEwen
Sir John McEwen, (29 March 190020 November 1980) was an Australian politician who served as the 18th Prime Minister of Australia, holding office from 19 December 1967 to 10 January 1968 in a caretaker capacity after the disappearance of Harold Holt.
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Katter's Australian Party
Katter's Australian Party (KAP) is a political party in Australia.
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Leader of the House (Australia)
In the Australian Parliament, the Leader of the House is the government minister responsible for the management of government business in the House of Representatives, including such matters as.
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Liberal National Party of Queensland
The Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) is a political party in Queensland, Australia.
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Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is a major centre-right political party in Australia, one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP).
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List of Australian federal by-elections
This is a list of by-elections for the Australian House of Representatives from its creation in 1901 until the present day.
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List of political parties in Australia
This article lists political parties in Australia.
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Lower house
A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house.
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Majority government
A majority government is a government formed by a governing party that has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament in a parliamentary system.
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Manager of Opposition Business in the House (Australia)
The Manager of Opposition Business in the House, sometimes called Opposition Leader of the House, is the member of the Australian Official Opposition Shadow Ministry responsible for negotiating with the Leader of the House regarding proceedings in the Australian House of Representatives.
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Members of the Australian House of Representatives
Following are lists of members of the Australian House of Representatives.
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Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 2016–2019
This is a list of members of the Australian House of Representatives of the 45th Parliament of Australia (2016–2019).
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Members of the Australian Parliament who have represented more than one state or territory
This is a list of Members of the Parliament of Australia who have represented more than one state or territory during their federal parliamentary career.
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Members of the Australian Parliament who have served for at least 30 years
This is a list of Members of the Parliament of Australia who have served for at least 30 years.
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National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia (also known as The Nationals or simply, The Nats) is an Australian political party.
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Nationalist Party (Australia)
The Nationalist Party was an Australian political party.
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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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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.
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Old Parliament House, Canberra
Old Parliament House, known formerly as the Provisional Parliament House, was the seat of the Parliament of Australia from 1927 to 1988.
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One vote, one value
In Australia, one vote, one value is a democratic principle widely valued in Australia and applied in electoral laws governing redistributions of electoral divisions of the House of Representatives whereby the divisions have the same number of enrolled voters, within a specified percentage of variance.
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Opposition (Australia)
In Australian parliamentary practice, the Opposition or Official Opposition is usually the official title of the second largest party or coalition of parties in the Australian House of Representatives with its leader being given the title Leader of the Opposition.
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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 Australia
The Parliament of Australia (officially the Federal Parliament; also known as the Commonwealth Parliament or just Parliament) is the legislative branch of the government of Australia.
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Parliamentary privilege
Parliamentary privilege is a legal immunity enjoyed by members of certain legislatures, in which legislators are granted protection against civil or criminal liability for actions done or statements made in the course of their legislative duties.
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Prime Minister of Australia
The Prime Minister of Australia (sometimes informally abbreviated to PM) is the head of government of Australia.
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Privy council
A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government.
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Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
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Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1887 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism.
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Queen's Privy Council for Canada
The Queen's Privy Council for Canada (QPC) (Conseil privé de la Reine pour le Canada (CPR)), sometimes called Her Majesty's Privy Council for Canada or simply the Privy Council, is the full group of personal consultants to the monarch of Canada on state and constitutional affairs.
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Question time
A question time in a parliament occurs when members of the parliament ask questions of government ministers (including the prime minister), which they are obliged to answer.
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Quorum
A quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly (a body that uses parliamentary procedure, such as a legislature) necessary to conduct the business of that group.
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Rebekha Sharkie
Rebekha Carina Che Sharkie (born 24 August 1972) is an Australian politician.
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Redistribution (Australia)
In Australia, a redistribution is the process of redrawing the boundaries of electoral divisions of the House of Representatives, a process that in the United States is called redistricting.
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Revenue Tariff Party (Tasmania)
The Revenue Tariff Party, also known as the Tariff Reform Party, was a minor Australian political party that operated in Tasmania in 1903.
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Section 127 of the Australian Constitution
Section 127 of the Australian Constitution was the final section within Chapter VII (dealing with miscellaneous matters), and mandated the exclusion of Aboriginal Australians from population counts conducted for electoral purposes.
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Section 25 of the Constitution of Australia
Section 25 of the Constitution of Australia is a provision of the Constitution of Australia headed ‘Provision as to races disqualified from voting’ and providing that ‘For the purposes of the last section, if by the law of any State all persons of any race are disqualified from voting at elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of the State, then, in reckoning the number of the people of the State or of the Commonwealth, persons of that race resident in that State shall not be counted.’.
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Section 51(xi) of the Australian Constitution
Section 51(xi) of the Australian Constitution is the subsection of Section 51 of the Australian Constitution granting the Commonwealth the power to make laws on "census and statistics".
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Section 51(xxvi) of the Australian Constitution
Section 51(xxvi) of the Australian Constitution,(xxvi).
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Shadow Cabinet of Australia
The Shadow Cabinet of Australia (also known in the Coalition as the Opposition Front Bench) is a group of senior Opposition spokespeople who are regarded as the alternative Cabinet to the Cabinet of Australia, whose members shadow or mark each individual Minister or portfolio of the Government.
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Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Parliament of Australia.
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States and territories of Australia
Australia (officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia) is a federation of six states, together with ten federal territories.
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Swan by-election, 1918
The 1918 Swan by-election was a by-election for the Division of Swan in the Australian House of Representatives, following the death of the sitting member Sir John Forrest.
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Tim Hammond
Timothy Jerome Hammond (born 25 March 1975) is a former Australian politician.
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Tony Burke
Anthony Stephen Burke (born 4 November 1969) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2004, representing the Division of Watson for the Labor Party.
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Tony Smith (Victorian politician)
Anthony David Hawthorn Smith (born 13 March 1967) is an Australian politician who is the 30th and current Speaker of the House of Representatives, assuming office on 10 August 2015.
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Turnbull Government
The Turnbull Government is the federal executive government of Australia, led by the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull.
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Two-party system
A two-party system is a party system where two major political parties dominate the government.
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Two-party-preferred vote
In Australian politics, the two-party-preferred vote (TPP or 2PP) is the result of an election or opinion poll after preferences have been distributed to the highest two candidates, who in some cases can be independents.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.
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Upper house
An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature (or one of three chambers of a tricameral legislature), the other chamber being the lower house.
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Western Australian Party
The Western Australian Party (WAP) was a short-lived Australian political party that operated in 1906.
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Westminster system
The Westminster system is a parliamentary system of government developed in the United Kingdom.
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Winnipeg Free Press
The Winnipeg Free Press is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Women in the Australian House of Representatives
There have been 115 women in the Australian House of Representatives since the establishment of the Parliament of Australia.
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2017–18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis
In 2017, the eligibility of a number of Australian members of Parliament to be elected to the Parliament of Australia was called into question.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_House_of_Representatives
