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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]
It includes members of the Parliament of Australia and members of state and territory parliaments. Members of the Australian Parliament For current members, see ...
The 47th Parliament of Australia is the current meeting of the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Australia, composed of the Australian Senate and the Australian House of Representatives. The May 2022 federal election gave the Australian Labor Party control of the House, with 77 seats, enough for a two-seat majority government.
This is a list of members of the House of Representatives of the 47th Parliament of Australia (2022–2025). They were elected in the 2022 Australian federal election or subsequent by-elections. [ 1 ]
This is a list of members of the House of Representatives of the 46th Parliament of Australia (2019–2022). [1] [e] Members. Member Party Electorate State
The ability of the chambers of Parliament to establish committees is given in section 49 of the Constitution, which states that, "The powers, privileges, and immunities of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, and of the members and the committees of each House, shall be such as are declared by the Parliament, and until declared shall ...
The Parliament of Australia has a number of distinctive features including compulsory voting, with full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the lower house, the Australian House of Representatives, and the use of the single transferable vote to elect the upper house, the Australian Senate.
The 47th Parliament of Australia is a meeting of the Parliament of Australia.New members were elected in the May 2022 election and were sworn in on 26 July 2022. [1] There are eight new senators (1 Independent, 1, Liberal, 1 National, 1 Country Liberal, 1 Jacqui Lambie Network, 1 Labor, 2 Greens) and 35 new representatives (1 National, 3 Greens, 3 Liberal National, 4 Liberal, 7 Independent, 17 ...