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GOVERNMENT

PRIME MINISTERS Prime ministers chair the weekly party meeting in wich the party decides policy and examines new legislation. They select other members and senators from the same party to be ministers. They also decide with the ministers in cabinet. What new laws should be introduced into parliment

VOTING AND ELECTIONS the colonists had to wait until l843 to have any right at all to elect reps to the council. The representatives were all men who owned property.

COAT OF ARMS an emu and a kangaroo with a tree in the background

FEDERATION the federation