Talk:Legislative Council 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)

Merge proposal
This chamber of the Qld parliament no longer exists and little more can be said.MH au 05:59, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose merge. There is scope for expanding this article.--cj | talk 05:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. There is significantly more that can be said about it. It's not every day that half a government votes to eliminate itself.121.208.60.237 09:15, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, there certainly is more to be said about governments suiciding. The NZ upper house did it in 1950 and in NSW it was tried by Premier Lang. At other Wikipedia sites it just says he tried to abolish the NSW Council and failed but he might have set it up to fail. It was Labor policy to abolish and he duly got the governor to appoint a suicide squad as per Qld (and later NZ) but the newly appointed members reneged and just stayed on as Council members. (BTW I think in Qld it was Lieutenant governor while the man himself was on leave—or something like that.)

Then the conservatives won NSW government and passed an act to require a referendum to abolish the Council. In 1930 Labor won again and passed a bill repealing the bill requiring a referendum but this was challenged in the Privy Council which ruled to the effect that there is no going back on a referendum commitment. So that was the end of any attempt to abolish the NSW Council. Everyone knows that the people would vote to keep it (as they had done in Qld).

Around 1978 or so Liberal Charlie Court ruled WA and he passed a bill requiring a referendum to abolish the Council which effectively permanently kyboshed any prospect of abolition in WA. It came back to bite them when the Greens got the balance of power in a reformed PR Council in about 1996 and no party has held a majority in the WA Council since. The Liberals would LOVE to abolish it now but it is out of the question.

In 2003 the Bracks govt reformed the Victorian Council (to PR) and put in referendum requirements for certain changes to the electoral rules — so apparently they can never be repealed. 101.171.255.249 (talk) 13:33, 31 March 2014 (UTC) Pepper

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