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Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is presided over by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The Assembly has 93 members, elected by single-member constituency, which are commonly known as seats. Voting is by the optional preferential system. [4] NSW first Legislative Assembly ...
The Parliament of New South Wales, formally the Legislature of New South Wales, [5] [6] is the bicameral legislative body of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). It consists of the monarch , the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (lower house) and the New South Wales Legislative Council (upper house).
The vacancies were left unfilled until the Parliament passed the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act on 10 December 1920, [11] so that casual vacancies were filled by the next unsuccessful candidate on the incumbent member's party list. If an Independent member retired, the Clerk of the Assembly determined who would fill the vacancy ...
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 57th Parliament hold their seats from 2019 to 2023. They were elected at the 2019 state election on 23 March 2019. [1] [2] The Speaker was Shelley Hancock until May 2019 and then Jonathan O'Dea. [5]
6 February – The Australian Parliament returns for the first sitting day of 2024. [83] [84] 7 February – Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce is filmed late at night engaged in a conversation on his phone while lying on his back on a footpath in the Canberra suburb of Braddon.
Parliament House, Sydney is a group of heritage-listed buildings which houses the Parliament of the state of New South Wales.The main building is located on the east side of Macquarie Street in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales.
(In 1991, the NSW Legislative Assembly was reduced from 109 to 99 Members, and then to 93 members in 1999.) As with the federal parliament and other Australian states and territories, voting in the election to select members for the council is compulsory for all New South Wales citizens over the age of 18.
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