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Labor–Green Accord, the Glossary

The Labor–Green Accord was a 1989 political agreement between the Labor Party and the Tasmanian Greens (then called the Green Independents) to form government in the Australian state of Tasmania after the 1989 general election had resulted in a hung parliament.^[1]

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1989 in Australia
1989 in politics
History of the Australian Labor Party
Political party alliances in Australia
Politics of Tasmania

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is an Australian Government agency that collects and analyses statistics on economic, population, environmental, and social issues to advise the Australian Government.

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Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD; also abbreviated A$ or sometimes AU$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; and also referred to as the dollar or Aussie dollar) is the official currency and legal tender of Australia, including all of its external territories, and three independent sovereign Pacific Island states: Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu.

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Australian House of Representatives

The Australian House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate.

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Australian Senate

The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.

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Balance of power (parliament)

In parliamentary politics, balance of power is a situation in which one or more members of a parliamentary or similar chamber can by their uncommitted vote enable a party to attain and remain in minority government.

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Bob Brown

Robert James Brown (born 27 December 1944) is an Australian former politician, medical doctor and environmentalist.

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Christine Milne

Christine Anne Milne (born 14 May 1953) is an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Tasmania.

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Coalition government

A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a government by political parties that enter into a power-sharing arrangement of the executive.

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Crossing the floor

In some parliamentary systems (e.g., in Canada and the United Kingdom), politicians are said to cross the floor if they formally change their political affiliation to a political party different from the one they were initially elected under.

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Di Hollister

Dianne Lesley Hollister (born 9 December 1947) is a former Australian politician.

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Division of Bass (state)

The electoral division of Bass is one of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, it includes north-east Tasmania and Flinders Island.

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Division of Braddon (state)

The electoral division of Braddon (named Darwin until 1955) is one of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, it includes north-west and western Tasmania as well as King Island.

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Division of Clark (state)

The electoral division of Clark is one of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, it is located in Hobart on the western shore of the River Derwent and includes the suburbs below Mount Wellington.

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Division of Franklin (state)

The electoral division of Franklin is one of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, located in southern Tasmania and includes Bruny Island, Kingston and the eastern shore of the Derwent River.

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Division of Lyons (state)

The electoral division of Lyons is one of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, with the largest electorate and covering most of central and eastern Tasmania. Lyons is named jointly in honour of Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia (1932–1939); Premier of Tasmania (1923–1928), and Joseph's wife, Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1943.

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Edmund Rouse

Edmund Alexander Rouse CBE (2 February 1926 – 28 July 2002), Don Woolford, AAP General News (Australia) 30 July 2002 was an Australian businessman and political figure.

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Freedom of information laws by country

Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments.

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Gerry Bates

Gerard Maxwell Bates (born 13 September 1950) is an Australian environmental lawyer and academic, and former politician.

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Governor of Tasmania

The governor of Tasmania is the representative in the Australian state of Tasmania of the monarch, currently King Charles III.

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Gunns

Gunns Limited was a major forestry enterprise located in Tasmania, Australia.

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Hung parliament

A hung parliament is a term used in legislatures primarily under the Westminster system (typically employing majoritarian electoral systems) to describe a situation in which no single political party or pre-existing coalition (also known as an alliance or bloc) has an absolute majority of legislators (commonly known as members or seats) in a parliament or other legislature.

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Jim Cox (Australian politician)

James Glennister Cox (born 1 October 1945) is a former Tasmanian Labor politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly who represented the electorate of Bass.

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Labor–Greens coalition

The Labor–Greens coalition is an alliance between the Labor Party and the Greens in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. Labor–Green Accord and Labor–Greens coalition are political party alliances in Australia.

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Lance Armstrong (politician)

Lance John Edward Armstrong (17 February 1940 – 14 October 2023) was an Australian politician.

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Launceston, Tasmania

Launceston is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia, at the confluence of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River (kanamaluka).

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Lower house

A lower house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where second chamber is the upper house.

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Melbourne University Publishing

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne.

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Michael Field (politician)

Michael Walter Field (born 28 May 1948 in Latrobe, Tasmania), is a former Australian politician, holding office as the Premier of Tasmania between 1989 and 1992.

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Minority government

A minority government, minority cabinet, minority administration, or a minority parliament is a government and cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the legislature.

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Motion of no confidence

A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion of confidence and corresponding vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fit to continue to occupy their office.

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Parliament of Tasmania

The Parliament of Tasmania is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Tasmania. Labor–Green Accord and Parliament of Tasmania are politics of Tasmania.

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Phillip Bennett

General Sir Phillip Harvey Bennett, (27 December 1928 – 1 August 2023) was a senior officer of the Australian Army who served as Chief of the Australian Defence Force from 1984 to 1987, and later as Governor of Tasmania from 1987 to 1995.

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Premier of Tasmania

The premier of Tasmania is the head of the executive government in the Australian state of Tasmania.

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Proportional representation

Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body.

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Ray Groom

Raymond John Groom (born 3 September 1944) is an Australian lawyer and former sportsman and politician, representing the Liberal Party in the Federal Parliament 1975–84 and the Tasmanian Parliament 1986–2001.

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Register of the National Estate

The Register of the National Estate was a heritage register that listed natural and cultural heritage places in Australia that was closed in 2007.

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Robin Gray (Australian politician)

Robin Trevor Gray (born 1 March 1940) is a former Australian politician who was Premier of Tasmania from 1982 to 1989.

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Royal commission

A royal commission is a major ad-hoc formal public inquiry into a defined issue in some monarchies.

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Single transferable vote

The single transferable vote (STV), sometimes mistakenly conflated with proportional ranked choice voting (P-RCV), is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot.

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Stateline (TV program)

Stateline is a brand used by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for some local and state-based news stories.

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States and territories of Australia

The states and territories are the second level of government of Australia.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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Tasmania Police

Tasmania Police is the primary law enforcement agency of the Australian state of Tasmania.

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Tasmanian Greens

The Tasmanian Greens are a political party in Australia which developed from numerous environmental campaigns in Tasmania, including the flooding of Lake Pedder and the Franklin Dam campaign.

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Tasmanian House of Assembly

The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia.

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Tasmanian Labor Party

The Tasmanian Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as Tasmanian Labor, is the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party.

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Tasmanian Liberal Party

The Tasmanian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Tasmanian Division) and more simply as the Tasmanian Liberals, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Tasmania.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.

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The Wilderness Society (Australia)

The Wilderness Society is an Australian, community-based, not-for-profit non-governmental environmental advocacy organisation.

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Tony Rundle

Anthony Maxwell Rundle AO (born 5 March 1939) was the Premier of the Australian State of Tasmania from 18 March 1996 to 14 September 1998.

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Wesley Vale pulp mill

The Wesley Vale pulp mill was a planned kraft process pulp mill, to be built near Wesley Vale and Devonport Airport in northern Tasmania in the late 1980s.

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Wiretapping

Wiretapping, also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means.

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Woodchips

Woodchips are small- to medium-sized pieces of wood formed by cutting or chipping larger pieces of wood such as trees, branches, logging residues, stumps, roots, and wood waste.

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1989 Tasmanian state election

The 1989 Tasmanian state election was held on 13 May 1989 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 35 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.

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1992 Tasmanian state election

The 1992 Tasmanian state election was held on 1 February 1992 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 35 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.

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1996 Tasmanian state election

The 1996 Tasmanian state election was held on 24 February 1996 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 35 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor–Green_Accord

Also known as Labor Green Accord, Labor-Greens Accord, Labour-Green Accord.

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See also

1989 in Australia

1989 in politics

History of the Australian Labor Party

Political party alliances in Australia

Politics of Tasmania

References