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2009
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2009-12 |
Victoria-Tasmania
Branch Presidents report to the 2009 Annual General
Meeting of that branch |
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2009-08 |
WA
Local Government Association succeeded in having WA replace its quota-preferential PR by first-past-the-post
voting |
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2009-07 |
Letter
in The Advertiser from ERSSA making
the point that planned SA referendums should allow Lower House reform also |
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South Australian
Government’s referendums for a smaller, weaker Legislative
Council, and for 4-year terms for MLCs |
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2009-05 |
British Columbia PR
Referendum on 2009-05-12 reverses majority support of the 2005 referendum. |
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2009-04 |
100th
Anniversary of the first Hare-Clark elections for the whole of Tasmania - on 1909-04-30 |
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2009-02 |
Legislative
Council Notice Paper for 2009-02-24
lists Motion No. 47 by Greens MLC Sue Pennicuik to introduce a Bill for an
Act to amend Section 27A of
Victoria’s Constitution Act 1975 to provide for a countback system
for the filling of casual vacancies in the Victorian Legislative Council and
for other purposes. [Notice given on |
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2009-01 |
The
first indirect filling of a Victorian Upper House Casual Vacancy - since 1856 -
which was by a Nominee of the ALP National Executive, in no way constitutes
proper direct representation of voters. |
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Western Australian Liberal Government plans to revert
to the crude first-past-the-post system WA formerly used
for municipal elections . |
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See video and transcript
of the case against the Rann Government’s apparent
intentions to hold a referendum on the abolition of South Australias
Legislative Council. It is the State Upper House that has used PR the
longest. [The video, by the Public Service Association, is a 54MB.mpg
file. It takes a long time to download to memory, even for broadband, but the
transcript is quick] |
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