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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 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 .
The Australian state of South Australia is divided into 10 electoral divisions for the purposes of electing the Australian House of Representatives. At the 2022 federal election, the Australian Labor Party won 6 seats, the Liberal Party of Australia won 3 seats, and 1 seat was won by the Centre Alliance. [1]
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 ...
Members of the Parliament of South Australia (8 C) Pages in category "Parliament of South Australia" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
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The other presiding officer is the President of the South Australian Legislative Council. As of the passage of the Constitution (Independent Speaker) Amendment Act 2021 , the Speaker is constitutionally banned from being a member of a registered political party outside of a "relevant election period".