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The 47th Parliament of Australia is the current meeting of the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Australia, composed of the Australian Senate and the Australian House of Representatives. The May 2022 federal election gave the Australian Labor Party control of the House, with 77 seats, enough for a two-seat majority government .
This is a list of members of the House of Representatives of the 47th Parliament of Australia (2022–2025). They were elected in the 2022 Australian federal election or subsequent by-elections. [ 1 ]
The current Parliament is the 47th Australian Parliament. The most recent federal election was held on 21 May 2022 and the 47th Parliament first sat on 26 July. The outcome of the 2022 election saw the Labor Party return to government for the first time in nine years, winning 77 seats in the 151-seat House of Representatives (an increase of 9 ...
A member of the House may be referred to as a "member of parliament" ("MP" or "member"), while a member of the Senate is usually referred to as a "senator". Under the conventions of the Westminster system, the government of the day and the prime minister must achieve and maintain the confidence of this House in order to gain and remain in power.
In the Parliament of Australia, the Leader of the House is the government minister responsible for the management of government business in the House of Representatives, including the order in which the Government's agenda is to be dealt with, tactical matters in reaction to impediments to such management, negotiation with the Opposition's counterpart (the Manager of Opposition Business in the ...
Anthony Norman Albanese (/ ˌ æ l b ə ˈ n iː z i / AL-bə-NEE-zee or / ˈ æ l b ə n iː z / AL-bə-neez; [nb 1] born 2 March 1963) is an Australian politician who is the 31st and current prime minister of Australia since 2022. [3]
Opposition Leader of the House: Tony Burke: Watson: NSW 18 October 2013-23 May 2022 Deputy Leader of the Opposition: Richard Marles: Corio: Vic 30 May 2019-23 May 2022 Chief Opposition Whip in the House: Chris Hayes: Fowler: NSW 14 May 2013-23 May 2022 Whip Graham Perrett: Moreton: Qld 30 August 2016-23 May 2022 Joanne Ryan: Lalor: Vic 16 ...
The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.. The powers, role and composition of the Senate are set out in Chapter I of the federal constitution as well as federal legislation and constitutional convention.