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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.
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 ...
25 January 2025 – current Deputy Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley: Farrer: NSW 30 May 2022 – current Chief Opposition Whip Bert van Manen: Forde: QLD 26 July 2022 – current Whip Melissa Price: Durack: WA 26 July 2022 – current Rowan Ramsey: Grey: SA 26 July 2022 – current
On 1 February, Gorton resigned from the Senate to stand for the 24 February by-election in Holt's former House of Representatives electorate of Higgins due to the convention that the prime minister be a member of the lower house. For 22 days (2 to 23 February inclusive) he was prime minister while a member of neither house of parliament. [27]
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 ...
The first address by an invited guest to the Parliament in a formally convened joint sitting of which there was an official record was on 2 January 1992, by the US President, George H. W. Bush. Later addresses to joint sittings included those from US presidents Bill Clinton (1996), George W. Bush (2003), and Barack Obama (2011); and paramount ...
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.
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]