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  • Thumbnail for Legislative Council of Hong Kong
    coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, colloquially known...
    66 KB (5,454 words) - 05:28, 17 August 2024
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    before being considered by the Legislative Council, which acts in the main as a house of review. The Legislative Council has 42 members, elected by proportional...
    21 KB (1,626 words) - 13:30, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Victorian Legislative Council
    Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to its federal...
    30 KB (2,002 words) - 03:09, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Western Australian Legislative Council
    Perth. Effective on 20 May 2005, for the election of members of the Legislative Council, the state was divided into six electoral regions by community...
    27 KB (2,115 words) - 16:48, 8 September 2024
  • re-establishment; conversely, proposals for the re-establishment of the Legislative Council for a state have also met with opposition. Proposals for abolition...
    14 KB (1,029 words) - 06:54, 3 September 2024
  • instructions. In India, the Vidhan Parishad is another name for the Legislative Council in those states with bicameral legislatures. In American English...
    23 KB (524 words) - 16:15, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for New Zealand Legislative Council
    Unlike the elected lower house, the House of Representatives, the Legislative Council was wholly appointed by the governor-general. The New Zealand Constitution...
    26 KB (2,580 words) - 21:33, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parliament of Western Australia
    parliament consists of the King (represented by the governor), the Legislative Council (the upper house) and the Legislative Assembly (the lower house)...
    12 KB (705 words) - 01:52, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tasmanian Legislative Council
    the state capital, Hobart. Members of the Legislative Council are often referred to as MLCs. The Legislative Council has 15 members elected using preferential...
    26 KB (2,613 words) - 08:21, 2 August 2024
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    to be appointed to the Legislative Council until 1926; Premier John Storey attempted to appoint Kate Dwyer to the Legislative Council in 1921, but the appointment...
    30 KB (2,851 words) - 06:59, 11 September 2024
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    Legislative Council of Quebec (category Members of the Legislative Council of Quebec)
    The Legislative Council of Quebec (French; Conseil législatif du Québec) was the unelected upper house of the bicameral legislature in the Canadian province...
    17 KB (1,585 words) - 01:05, 23 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
    The president of the Legislative Council is the presiding officer of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. According to the Article 71 of the Hong Kong...
    13 KB (802 words) - 05:37, 7 August 2024
  • officer of the upper house of the Parliament of New South Wales, the Legislative Council. The presiding officer of the lower house is the speaker of the...
    20 KB (805 words) - 13:27, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parliament of South Australia
    duties, and taxes. This council was sometimes referred to as the "Legislative Council". Confusion and dispute about the division of power between the...
    49 KB (5,330 words) - 11:54, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Legislative Council of the Isle of Man
    The Legislative Council (Manx: Yn Choonceil Slattyssagh) is the upper chamber of Tynwald, the legislature of the Isle of Man. The abbreviation "LegCo"...
    28 KB (1,335 words) - 18:56, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Legislative Council of Queensland
    The Legislative Council of Queensland was the upper house of the parliament in the Australian state of Queensland. It was a fully nominated body which...
    17 KB (1,315 words) - 11:05, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parliament of Tasmania
    of the King), the Legislative Council (the upper house), and the House of Assembly (the lower house). Since 1841, the Legislative Council has met in Parliament...
    23 KB (930 words) - 09:03, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parliament of Victoria
    represented by the governor of Victoria, the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council. It has a fused executive drawn from members of both chambers....
    86 KB (8,656 words) - 16:05, 2 September 2024
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    Legislative Council of Ceylon (category Members of the Legislative Council of Ceylon)
    The Legislative Council of Ceylon was the legislative body of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) established in 1833, along with the Executive Council of Ceylon,...
    19 KB (1,018 words) - 02:20, 10 April 2024
  • Legislative Council of the Province of Canada (category Members of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada)
    The Legislative Council of the Province of Canada (French: Conseil législatif de la province du Canada) was the upper house for the Province of Canada...
    20 KB (791 words) - 23:43, 26 June 2024
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