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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).
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.
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 .
(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.
New South Wales is governed according to the principles of the Westminster system, a form of parliamentary government based on the model of the United Kingdom.Legislative power formally rests with the King, acting with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly—together known as the Parliament of New South Wales. [3]
Bankstown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's West.It has historically been one of the safest Labor seats in New South Wales.
In 1894, single-member electorates were introduced statewide and the two-member electorate of Eden was split into Bega and Eden–Bombala.In 1904 Eden-Bombala was abolished as a result of the 1903 New South Wales referendum which reduced the number of members of the Legislative Assembly from 125 to 90 and part of the district was absorbed by Bega. [5]