Coordinates. The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate.Its composition and powers are established in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia.. The term of members of the House of Representatives is a maximum of three years from the date of the first sitting of the House, but on only one …

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Parliament of Australia.The counterpart in the upper house is the President of the Senate.The office of Speaker was created by section 35 of the Constitution of Australia.The authors of the Constitution intended that the House of …

Whips have managed business and maintained party discipline for Australia's federal political parties in the House of Representatives since Federation.The term has origins in the British parliamentary system. As the number of members of parliament and amount of business before the House has increased, so too has the number of whips.The three parties represented in the …

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) determines the number of members of the House of Representatives to which each state and territory is entitled (called apportionment) and the boundaries of each electorate, in a process known as redistribution.Such apportionment and redistributions apply to the next federal election, but not to any by-elections.

The state-by-state results in the Australian House of Representatives at the 2019 federal election were: Coalition 77, Labor 68, Australian Greens 1, Centre Alliance 1, Katter's Australian Party 1, and Independents 3. Australia. House of Representatives – …

The bill received a second reading but subsequently lapsed and did not go to vote in the House of Representatives. History. The Union Flag, as the flag of the British Empire, was first used on Australian soil on 29 April 1770 when Lieutenant James Cook landed at Botany Bay.

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 . [1]

The flag was first flown on National Aborigines Day in Victoria Square in Adelaide on 9 July 1971. It was also used in Canberra at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy from late 1972. In the early months of the embassy—which was established in February that year—other designs were used, including a black, green and red flag made by supporters of the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league …

The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population. This count would determine the number of seats in the House of Representatives and how much each state would pay in taxes. The compromise counted three-fifths of each state's slave …

December 19 – The UAP/Country Coalition, led by Joseph Lyons, defeats the Australian Labor Government, led by Prime Minister James Scullin. Coming in the aftermath of two splits in the Labor Party, the election comes about due to the defeat of the Scullin Government on the floor of the House of Representatives – to date, it is the last ...