Canberra, ACT, Australia - Federal Parliament House - RP postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  Federal Parliament House, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory - real photo type
• Publisher:  R. C. Strangman, Canberra
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, commonly referred to as the Australian Parliament, the Commonwealth Parliament or the Federal Parliament, is the legislative branch of the government of Australia. It consists of three elements: the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives.^[1] The Queen is represented by the Governor-General.^[2] The combination of two elected houses, in which the members of the Senate represent the six States and the two major self-governing Territories while the members of the House represent electoral divisions according to population, is modelled on the United States Congress. Through both houses, however, there is a fused executive, drawn from the Westminster System.^[3]

The upper house, the Senate, consists of 76 members: twelve for each state, and two each for the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. Since the voting reforms of March 2016, Senators are elected using an optional proportional voting system. The lower house, the House of Representatives, currently consists of 150 members, who represent districts known as electoral divisions (commonly referred to as "electorates" or "seats"). Each division elects one member using compulsory preferential voting. The two Houses meet in separate chambersof Parliament House on Capital Hill in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

The incumbent Parliament is the 45th Federal Parliament of the Federation. The most recent federal election was held on 2 July 2016 and the House is scheduled to first sit on 30 August.

The outcome of the 2016 double dissolution election in the 150-seat House of Representatives saw the one-term incumbent Liberal/National Coalition government re-elected with a reduced 76 seats, a bare one-seat majority government − the closest federal majority result since the 1961 election. Resulting from the national two-party swing against the Turnbull government, the Shorten Labor opposition picked up a significant number of previously government-held seats − totaling 69 seats. On the crossbench the Australian Greens, the Nick Xenophon Team, Katter's Australian Party, and independents Andrew Wilkie and Cathy McGowan won a seat each.^[4][5]

The 2016 double dissolution election Senate result was announced on 4 August: Liberal/National Coalition 30 seats (−3), Labor 26 seats (+1), Greens 9 seats (−1), One Nation 4 seats (+4) and Nick Xenophon Team 3 seats (+2). Derryn Hinch won a seat, while Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm, Family First's Bob Day, and Jacqui Lambie retained their seats. The number of crossbenchers increased by two to a record 20. The Liberal/National Coalition will require at least nine additional votes to reach a Senate majority, an increase of three.^[6][7][8] As per convention, both the government and opposition agreed to pass through the parliament an agreement that the first elected six of twelve Senators in each state would serve a six-year term, while the last six elected in each state would serve a three-year term.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}