Overview of the Australian Government and how SOL would fit in?
At the upcoming federal election, all persons on Australia’s Commonwealth Electoral Roll will be required to vote twice on Election Day. Once for the House of Representatives (the Lower House )and once for the Senate ( the Upper House). Australia is divided into 150 electoral divisions, each with between 20,000 and 70,000 voters. From each of these divisions voters elect a person (commonly referred to as their “local member”) to represent them in Parliament in the House of Representatives. The Senate is made up of 76 senators, 12 from each state and two from each territory. SOL will only be running candidates for the Senate. Each proposed change to federal laws or proposed new laws are presented to Parliament and are referred to as a ‘Bill’. The Bill will generally be first passed by a majority of members in the House of Representatives, and if it is passed here it will then be presented to the Senate. If passed by a majority of senators in the House of Representatives the Bill is enac
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