Talk:Western Australian Legislative Council

Reversion

Oops! Sorry, I misread the changes - Anonymous user did make a correction. As Effie would say, "how embarrashment!"--Cyberjunkie 07:15, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

One vote one value

The article needs to be updated to reflect the one vote one value legislation that was passed in 2005 (see [1] and [2])

I wrote the following, but not sure how to finish it and ran out of time.

"In 2005, the state Labor government passed legislation - referred to as "one vote one value" - which will end the... (unfinished). The legislation will take effect at the next state election, bringing WA in line with the other states." —Preceding unsigned comment added by DonkeyKong64 (talk • contribs) 07:21, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

"Opposition"

Is the National Party part of the Opposition? Especially as there is no Coalition agreement with the Liberals? Enthusiast01 (talk) 22:26, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

If there's no coalition agreement, then no, they would be part of the crossbench. Frickeg (talk) 22:33, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

And wait a second, all these updates need to be rolled back. I haven't done it myself because I don't know what other changes have been made, but (a) results are absolutely not final and are still very much subject to change, and much more importantly, (b) the new Council doesn't take effect until May anyway. It's a bit like the Senate. @Enthusiast01: I'll give you a chance to do this and keep any other changes, otherwise I'll roll it right back to before the election. Frickeg (talk) 23:42, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Actually, I think I'm going to have to roll it back now. This is completely incorrect information that we really can't have sitting here misleading people. Frickeg (talk) 01:00, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

I'll sort out the other changes later. No time now, as it looks like a big job. Enthusiast01 (talk) 04:35, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Whatever is the status of LC members until the expiration of the term in May, the Labor party members are now Government members, Liberals are now in Opposition, and Nationals are now on crossbench. Enthusiast01 (talk) 00:52, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Agreed. Not sure if it's worth fiddling with the diagram so that it reflects that, but if someone who knows how to do that stuff is in the mood ... (The fun part is that we'll actually have three stopgap members who will serve very short terms between now and the changeover, to replace Amber-Jade Sanderson, Peter Katsambanis and Paul Brown. Last election these were people who had been elected anyway, but this time they'll just be serving a month and a half and then gone.) Frickeg (talk) 01:12, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Diagram

Adversarial form

Hemicycle form

I wonder which is the better parliament diagram format to use for this article: the current adversarial Westminster-style form, or the arched hemicycle form. The former seems more traditional, but given the vast size of the crossbench in the current Council and the fact the the Council plenary chamber is horseshoe shaped anyway, should a change be considered? Tomiĉo (talk) 22:54, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

If there is no objection then, I will change to the hemicycle form in this article. Tomiĉo (talk) 23:31, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

I think it should be changed back to the previous diagram. The WA Parliament is a model of Westminster system of parliament; the diagram should follow the conventions of Wikipedia pages for other State houses of parliament and revert back to the previous diagram, regardless of the design of the physical chamber. Owlcountry (talk) 14:40, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Edit reverted for the above reasons. Owlcountry (talk) 12:45, 14 August 2018 (UTC)