Talk:Legislative Assembly of Queensland

Reorganising Australian parliaments category
I propose to tidy up Category:Australian Parliaments a little by creating a new sub category within it called - Category:Parliaments of the Australian States and Territories. This category would contain articles on the Parliaments but not lists of previous parliaments. The category would then be listed at Category:Legislatures of subnational entities in place of Category:Australian Parliaments. This would mean that this article will be listed under the new Category:Parliaments of the Australian States and Territories instead of the current Category:Australian Parliaments. If you would like to comment please go to Category talk:Australian parliaments Adz 07:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

The categories on this page have been changed in line with the proposal agreed upon at WikiProject Australian politics/Parliaments -- Adz|talk 12:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

2012 Election
I've made a chamber graphic based on the current ABC figures, which at this stage of the count are likely to hold, but probably worth waiting a bit before putting it in the article. It should be obvious who has more seats. --GoForMoe (talk) 09:36, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * What a depressing graphic. Better wait for the last couple to clear up before finalising, as you say. Frickeg (talk) 10:10, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I've replaced the pic because the results seem pretty certain (or at least somewhat more informative than the old info). Dengero (talk) 10:26, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

While I have no issue with the current image on the article (save for the canvas size making it unnecessarily small), the point of using a new image was so that the other could be used in situations where the results of the 2012 election were needed as an image, per the usage in the 2010 federal election article. The changing parliaments don't always mean that every chamber image should be updated, therefore dated charts allow the decision to be made on a per article basis over whether to actually update and the process of editing ensures the statistics below actually match what the chart will show. --GoForMoe (talk) 10:44, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The answer for that is to create one file for the election, which is called "2012 Queensland election seats" or some such, which never changes, and another that changes along with the actual changes on the ground, such as the one used here. I think I've fixed the size issue. For some reason it stretched at res=275px on the saved version even though it didn't in the preview window (at least for me). Anyway, it seems to work fine at 280px, so with luck that will do for that little problem. -Rrius (talk) 11:30, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Yep, looks good now. I suppose it's hard to predict right now how many changes we will see before 2015, it may well be a non issue anyway. --GoForMoe (talk) 11:39, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Let's hope not; that would be too dull! -Rrius (talk) 11:56, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Current distribution of seats
Ray Hopper has defected from the LNP to Katter's Australia Party. I'm not sure how to update the diagrams. 60.242.1.97 (talk) 13:29, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've updated the chart but not the articles - I'd hate to just swap the numbers without adding info about the changes, but don't know enough about the background. --GoForMoe (talk) 14:42, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Carl Judge and Alex Douglas have confirmed they will resign from the LNP and sit as independents. 203.9.185.136 (talk) 06:06, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Name format
All the other state lower houses's article names start with the name of the state, e.g. Victorian Legislative Assembly. Any objections to changing this one to conform? --  Jack of Oz   [Talk]  00:57, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * This was previously discussed, inconclusively, here. Apparently there's some confusion about the correct name. For what it's worth, considering the confusion, I still think QLA would be a better place for it. Frickeg (talk) 06:58, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Yes, I'm sure the issue of similar titles being used interchangeably also applies to at least some of the other lower houses, so why anyone would die in a ditch over the Queensland one is a bit weird.  Anyway, I didn't see the earlier discussion but it's good to know that great minds still think alike.  --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  07:42, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, I agree also. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 20:55, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

FWIW, the naming here is different (not confused) because while the two versions are both used (though the current title is used far more often by the body), "Legislative Assembly of Queensland" is the term used in official documents. This is different from other Australian parliaments because it is unicameral, whereas the name of the jurisdiction is rarely or never used with the name of an individual house in documents for other Australian bodies. There is a second issue. The naming of these articles was mixed at one point, and someone moved them all to [jurisdiction] [name of house] without any discussion about what is better. Aside from the US (whose articles tend to be weird in multiple ways), legislatures for articles across the project seem to overwhelmingly use [name of house] of [jursidiction]. So I think there is reason to consider switching everyone else to "of" rather than switching this one away. -Rrius (talk) 19:47, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Seat diagram
It has changed again after Scott Driscoll has been suspended from the LNP and now sits as an independent. 60.242.1.97 (talk) 08:13, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * -Rrius (talk) 08:24, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Alex Douglas and Carl Judge have joined the United Australia Party. My Name Is Purl (talk) 04:10, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Can someone please edit the seat diagram to have; 41 for Labor and 4 dots for Independents? Plus the Opp Business is Jeff Seeney Journostudent092 (talk) 10:29, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Former federal MPs elected to state Parliament
Perhaps worth noting is that I have come across a lot of cases in recent times of former federal MPs elected to state Parliament more so than the other way around.

Unless I am mistaken Bob Katter seems to be the last state MP who was then elected to federal Parliament.

122.106.83.10 (talk) 02:55, 14 December 2018 (UTC)