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The Parliament of South Australia is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of South Australia.It consists of the 47-seat House of Assembly (lower house) and the 22-seat Legislative Council (upper house). [2]
A map of South Australian electorates 1955-69, during the height of the Playmander Another distinctive aspect of the history of the South Australian Parliament was the " Playmander ", a gerrymandering system that instituted a pro-rural electoral malapportionment introduced by the incumbent Liberal and Country League (LCL) government, and in ...
The Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly is the presiding officer of the South Australian House of Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of South Australia. The other presiding officer is the President of the South Australian Legislative Council.
When the Province of South Australia received its original constitution in 1857, it was the most democratic in the British Empire, combining a universal-suffrage lower house (the House of Assembly), with a restricted-suffrage upper house (the Legislative Council). The purpose of the Legislative Council was, as with the 19th century House of ...
The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government or the SA Government, is the executive branch of the state of South Australia. It is modelled on the Westminster system , meaning that the highest ranking members of the executive are drawn from an elected state parliament .
This is a list of members of the South Australian House of Assembly from 2022 to 2026, as elected at the 2022 state election and subsequent by-elections. Name
Parliament House, Adelaide. The first completed western wing is to the left, adjacent to the Old Parliament House. Parliament House, on the corner of North Terrace and King William Road in the Adelaide city centre, is the seat of the Parliament of South Australia. It was built to replace the adjacent and overcrowded Parliament House, now ...
The 2024 South Australian First Nations Voice election was held on 16 March 2024 to elect the inaugural members of the First Nations Voice to Parliament, an advisory body for Indigenous Australians to the Parliament of South Australia. Unlike state and federal elections, voting was not compulsory, and voter turnout was low.