Talk:New South Wales Legislative Council

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Prior to 1978,the members were elected by a joint sitting of the LA and LC rather than the LA alone

Correction of important error

The following information is incorrect:

In 1836, it was radically reformed, with the number of members increased to 54, with two-thirds of them being elected.

It appears to have been the result of a misinterpretation of the timeline on the Legislative Council history page [1], which is missing the date (1850) following the 1836 entry, and preceding the text "Australian Colonies Government Act passed, Council becomes 54 Members, 2/3rds elected". The aforementioned Act was passed in 1850, not 1836, and as such the figures given for the size of the Council are incorrect at that time. I have corrected the relevant section so that it contains accurate information, and will contact the administrator of the Legislative Council website with regards to correcting the oversight on their own web page also.

Penguin75 10:03, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Structure

The structure I am proposing is currently the only one available. I am happy with it. If you are unhappy with it, please, make a better one. All I am saying is that until that happens, we should at least add the only available structure. Andreas11213 (talk) 22:50, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Basically what I said for the NSWLA. Crossbench on the crossbench, President separate. (Plus this one looks really strange. I think perhaps this particular design works less well on smaller chambers. As I believe there are only two rows in the actual LC, we could at least make it three here - two would probably look even weirder.) Frickeg (talk) 23:50, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Ninja trivia

Is that whole section not out of place? Possibly it deserves a brief mention, but a whole section in disregard of the huge amount of historical detail available about the Legislative Council? (With a "this section requires expansion" tag too???). Tony (talk) 02:11, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Good lord, yes. (I hadn't seen the tag. Wow.) I rather doubt whether it deserves more than a sentence, frankly. Frickeg (talk) 07:42, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

This is more widespread than this page. Discussion started here. Frickeg (talk) 13:52, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

How many from each party are up for election in March 2019?

I came here for this vital information, only to be disappointed. Where is it? Tony (talk) 09:32, 6 October 2018 (UTC)