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House of Representatives committee room, Parliament House, Canberra A short video on Australian Parliamentary Committees. In addition to the work of the main chamber, the House of Representatives also has a large number of committees which deal with matters referred to them by the main House.
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]
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 ]
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 .
The population counts confirmed that the number of seats in the House of Representatives was to return to 150, with Victoria gaining a seat (39), and Western Australia (15) and the Northern Territory (1) losing a seat each. [61] [62] The abolition of the Northern Territory's second seat in the determination was controversial. [63]
The number of seats won by each party in the Australian House of Representatives at the 2022 federal election were: Coalition 58, Labor 77, Australian Greens 4, Centre Alliance 1, Katter's Australian Party 1, and Independents 10. [1] This election was held using instant-runoff voting. In almost all the districts, the candidate who led in the ...
This article summarises results for the general elections to the Australian House of Representatives and Senate, respectively the lower and upper houses of Australia's federal bicameral legislative body, the Parliament of Australia. The number of seats has increased steadily over time, from 111 for the first election, to the current total of ...
House of Representatives [1] – Turnout 90.59% Party Votes % Swing (pp) Seats Change (seats) [a] Liberal Party of Australia: 1,105,718 29.51 −5.37 8 4 National Party of Australia: 133,562 3.57 −0.13 3 0 Liberal/National Coalition 1,239,280 33.08 −5.18 11 4 Australian Labor Party: 1,230,842 32.85 −4.01 24 3 Australian Greens: 514,893 13.74