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The Legislative Assembly. is the unicameral (single house) Parliament of Queensland (see Prior to 1922). Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting system (OPV). The Assembly has 89 'Members of the Legislative Assembly' (MLAs). Unicameralism is the practice of having only one legislative or parliamentary chamber. ...
The Parliament of Queensland is the legislature of Queensland, Australia. ...
The Legislative Assembly. ...
Optional Preferential Voting is a system of vote-casting used in the state of Queensland in the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
MLA is a three letter acronym that can stand for a number of different things: Malta International Airport: IATA airport code Martial Law Administration of Bangladesh Master of Landscape Architecture Master of Liberal Arts Medical Library Association Member of Legislative Assembly (India) Member of the Legislative Assembly State MLAs, Queensland...
The 89 MLAs are intended to represent approximately the same population in each electorate, however that has not always been the case (see Queensland's Gerrymander). The Legislative Assembly. ...
Recent events
By-elections took place on August 20, 2005 for the electorates of Chatsworth and Redcliffe following the resignations of Deputy Premier Terry Mackenroth and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Ray Hollis. Both formerly safe Labor seats saw Liberal members Michael Caltabiano (Chatsworth) and Terry Rogers (Redcliffe) elected. A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ...
August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A premier is an executive official of government. ...
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian liberal conservative political party. ...
Current distribution of seats (as at declaration of August 20, 2005 by-elections) August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ...
(see detailed list) The Australian Labor Party or ALP is Australias oldest political party. ...
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ...
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian liberal conservative political party. ...
One Nation is a conservative, nationalist and protectionist political group in Australia. ...
This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 2004 to approximately 2007: 1 ALP member Ray Hollis resigned on July 21, 2005. ...
Prior to 1922 The Legislative Assembly was the lower house of a normal Westminster style bicameral parlaiment. The upper chamber, the Legislative Council having been in the style of a senate house. In government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. ...
The Queensland Legislative Council was the upper house of the parliament in the Australian state of Queensland, until its abolition in 1922. ...
In 1922 the Legislative Council took the unusual step of voting to abolish itsef, leaving Queensland with only the Legistaive Assembly. 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Queensland's Gerrymander Queensland, until the reforms following the end of the Bjelke-Petersen era, had a system where electorates in rural districts were created with significantly smaller numbers of voters than urban seats, in effect making the vote of a person from rural Queensland worth significantly more than a vote by a person living in the highly urbanised areas of Southeast Queensland. (see Gerrymander) The Hon. ...
Printed in 1812, this political cartoon illustrates the electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the incumbent Democratic-Republican party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists. ...
This system was put in place by the Australian Labor Party before the second world war, but socio-economic and demographic changes associated with mechanisation and urbanisation led to a drift of working class population to the cities and a subsiquent shift in the fortunes of the Country Party (later National Party of Australia), which represented the interests of and appealled electorally to rural landholders. The Australian Labor Party or ALP is Australias oldest political party. ...
Socioeconomics is the study of the social and economic impacts of any product or service offering, market intervention or other activity on an economy as a whole and on the companies, organization and individuals who are its main economic actors. ...
A demographic or demographic profile is a term used in marketing and broadcasting, to describe a demographic grouping or a market segment. ...
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ...
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