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The politics of Australia has a mild two-party system, with two dominant political groupings in the Australian political system, the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal/National Coalition. Federally, 17 of the 151 members of the lower house (Members of Parliament, or MPs) are not members of major parties, as well as 21 of the 76 members of ...
The 2024 Australian Capital Territory election was held on 19 October 2024 to elect all 25 members of the unicameral ACT Legislative Assembly. [1]The centre-left Labor Party, led by Chief Minister Andrew Barr, which had been in government in the territory since the 2001 election, and in coalition with the progressive Greens since 2012, sought to win a seventh consecutive term in office.
A two-party system has existed in the Australian House of Representatives since the two non-Labor parties merged in 1909. The 1910 election was the first to elect a majority government, with the Australian Labor Party concurrently winning the first Senate majority.
Minor parties have played a greater role in the politics of Australia since proportional representation was progressively introduced. [23] Elections in Australia are seen by parties as a chance to develop and refine policies. [1] Rather than a procedure where the best policies win the day, elections are contests where parties fight for power ...
Australia's Voice (AV) is an Australian political party founded in 2024 by independent and former Labor senator Fatima Payman. [3] The party intends to contest every state in the Senate and multiple House of Representatives seats at the 2025 federal election. [4]
The Legislative Assembly has 59 members, elected for fixed four-year terms from single-member constituencies, using preferential voting. Voting is compulsory, with elections being held every four years on the second Saturday in March, [9] [10] though the term of the Legislative Council does not expire until May after the election.
The Liberal–National Coalition, commonly known simply as the Coalition or the LNP, [a] is an alliance of centre-right to right-wing political parties that forms one of the two major groupings in Australian federal politics.
The party was founded in 2004 by four rural Victorians as the Country Alliance, lodging its initial registration with the Victorian Electoral Commission on 15 August 2005. It was renamed to the Australian Country Party (ACP) in 2015.