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One 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 place for 32 years from 1936 to 1968. [27]
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 .
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 ...
The Parliament of South Australia began in 1857, when the colony of South Australia was granted self-government. [ 1 ] Old Parliament House on North Terrace is situated to the west of the new Parliament House, and is associated with numerous and progressive legislative reforms in which South Australia led the way (such as the introduction of ...
The history of South Australia includes the history of the Australian state of South Australia since Federation in 1901, and the area's preceding Indigenous and British colonial societies. Aboriginal Australians of various nations or tribes have lived in South Australia for at least thirty thousand years, while British colonists arrived in the ...
In 1842, the Imperial Parliament passed the South Australia Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 61), which further reformed the structure of government in South Australia. The act repealed the South Australian Colonisation Act 1834 and the South Australian Colonisation Act 1838, and empowered the Queen-in-Council to establish a Legislative Council to make ...
South Australian Parliament – 61489 days as of 1 March 2025 Current parties. Australian Labor Party – 20579 days as of 1 March 2025.