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dc.contributor.authorPorter, Jennifer
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:11:02Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:11:02Z
dc.date.created2015-05-11T20:00:41Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationPorter, J. 2014. State parliaments’ departure from the practice of standing orders: The evolution of Australian parliamentary practice. Australian Journal of Political Science. 49 (1): pp. 111-121.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29205
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10361146.2013.864597
dc.description.abstract

This article analyses the extent to which contemporary Australian state parliaments observe the procedures and practices of the British House of Commons and the potential reasons for departures from those procedures. It considers a recent example of significant divergence from House of Commons practice. In Western Australia’s state parliament, the speaker exercised the casting vote on a motion of closure (a ‘gag’ motion). The article examines this procedural divergence for possible insights into the nature of, and reasons for, Australian departures from House of Commons practice.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectparliamentary practice
dc.subjectspeaker’s casting vote
dc.subjectstanding orders
dc.subjectAustralian state parliaments
dc.subjectgag motions
dc.titleState parliaments’ departure from the practice of standing orders: The evolution of Australian parliamentary practice
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume49
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage111
dcterms.source.endPage121
dcterms.source.issn1036-1146
dcterms.source.titleAustralian Journal of Political Science
curtin.departmentCurtin Law School
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