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The first address by an invited guest to the Parliament in a formally convened joint sitting of which there was an official record was on 2 January 1992, by the US President, George H. W. Bush. Later addresses to joint sittings included those from US presidents Bill Clinton (1996), George W. Bush (2003), and Barack Obama (2011); and paramount ...
An example of this is the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia, appointed by resolution by the House of Representatives on 4 July 2019 and the Senate on 22 July 2019. [3] The Inquiry into the destruction of 46,000-year-old caves at the Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara region of Western Australia was referred to this Committee in June 2020.
The committee is governed by Standing Order 216 and consists of thirteen members, one member nominated by the Leader of the House, another member nominated by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and eleven other members (six government, four opposition and one crossbench). The chair is appointed by the Prime Minister and the deputy chair by the ...
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]
In the Australian federal parliament, a joint sitting can be held, under certain conditions, to overcome a deadlock between the two houses.For a deadlock to be declared, a bill has to be rejected twice by the Senate at an interval of at least three months, after which a double dissolution election can be held.
The Standing Committee on Appropriations and Administration is a committee of the Australian House of Representatives responsible for the funding and operations of the House of Representatives. [1] The committee is governed by Standing Order 222A and consists of nine members, the Speaker as chair, ex officio , four government members and three ...
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 .
Payment of members is the provision of a salary to members of a legislature. From time to time, proposals were made to reintroduce in the English parliamentary system a practice that was almost universally adopted in other countries, that of paying a state salary to members of the legislative body.