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The Parliament of South Australia is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of South Australia. It consists of the 47-seat House of Assembly ( lower house ) and the 22-seat Legislative Council ( upper house ). [ 2 ]
South Australia was the second place in the world to do so after New Zealand in 1893, and the first to allow women to stand for election. [1] (The first woman candidates for the South Australia Assembly ran in 1918 general election, in Adelaide and Sturt. [2]) A painting of the House of Assembly meeting in Old Parliament House in 1867
This is a list of members of the South Australian House of Assembly from 2018 to 2022, as elected at the 2018 state election and subsequent by-elections. [ 1 ] Name
In 1856, the Legislative Council passed the Constitution Act 1856 (SA), which prepared what was to become the 1857 Constitution of South Australia.This laid out the means for true self-government, and created a bicameral system, which involved delegating most of its legislative powers to the new House of Assembly.
The other presiding officer is the President of the South Australian Legislative Council. As of the passage of the Constitution (Independent Speaker) Amendment Act 2021 , the Speaker is constitutionally banned from being a member of a registered political party outside of a "relevant election period".
This is a list of by-elections for the Australian House of Representatives from its creation in 1901 until the present day. Casual vacancies in the House of Representatives arise when a member dies, is disqualified or resigns, or for some other reason the seat becomes vacant. Members normally resign by tendering resignation to the Speaker of ...
It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Australian Labor Party (SA Branch). The party is led by Vincent Tarzia since 12 August 2024. During its 42-year existence as the Liberal and Country League, it spent 34 years in government, mainly due to an electoral malapportionment scheme known ...
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