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The Constitution of Australia of 1900 established the House of Representatives in a newly federated Australia. The House is presided over by the speaker . Members of the House are elected from single member electorates (geographic districts, commonly referred to as "seats" but officially known as " Divisions of the Australian House of ...
The Parliament of Australia (officially the Parliament of the Commonwealth [4] and also known as the Federal Parliament) is the federal legislature of Australia.It consists of three elements: the monarch of Australia (represented by the governor-general), the Senate (the upper house), and the House of Representatives (the lower house). [4]
First time in role. 4 Sir Elliot Johnson: Liberal: New South Wales: 9 July 1913 30 July 1914 First time in role. (3) Charles McDonald: Labor: Queensland: 8 October 1914 26 March 1917 Second time in role. First Speaker to serve multiple terms. (4) Sir Elliot Johnson: Nationalist: New South Wales: 14 June 1917 6 November 1922 Second time in role.
Section 24: Constitution of House of Representatives in Australia; Section 25: Provision as to races disqualified from voting; Section 26: Representatives in first Parliament; Section 27: Alteration of number of members; Section 28: Duration of House of Representatives; Section 29: Electoral divisions; Section 30: Qualification of electors
The speaker of the Australian House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Australian House of Representatives, the lower house of the Parliament of Australia. The counterpart in the upper house is the president of the Senate. The office of the speakership was established in 1901 by section 35 of the Constitution of Australia.
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 ...
An example of this is the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia, appointed by resolution by the House of Representatives on 4 July 2019 and the Senate on 22 July 2019. [3] The Inquiry into the destruction of 46,000-year-old caves at the Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara region of Western Australia was referred to this Committee in June 2020. [4]
In Australia, the federal and state governments all operate on a bicameral parliament, with a House of Representatives and a Senate each. Control of each house is formed by either a majority parliament, where a single party or a coalition of parties, holds enough seats to hold power through an electoral term in their own right.