Parliament of Queensland
Parliament of Queensland | |
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| 9th Parliament | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| Houses | House of Commons House of Lords |
| Leadership | |
Baudouin since 19 November 2022 | |
Lord Speaker | Dame Patsy Victoria since 15 January 2021 |
Commons Speaker | Sir Folke B.H. Gustaf since 15 July 2021 |
Sir Paul Gordon, Queensland National Liberal Party since 8 July 2022 | |
Sir Denis Bridgwater, Queenslandian Conservation and Democracy Party since 8 July 2022 | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | House of Lords: 10 House of Commons: 24 |
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House of Commons political groups |
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House of Lords political groups | |
| Elections | |
House of Commons last election | 27 February - 1 March 2023 |
| Meeting place | |
| National Parliament Building Vesteralen, Edinburgh Queensland | |
The Parliament of the Kingdom of Queensland is the supreme legislative body of the Commonwealth of Queensland, the Crown dependencies. It alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all other political bodies in the Queensland. Parliament is bicameral but has three parts, consisting of the sovereign (Crown-in-Parliament), the House of Lords, and the House of Commons (the primary chamber). Parliament is also tasked with enforcing the laws that it passes. The political party or party coalition that controls the majority of seats in the Commons chooses the national executive for the country, the prime minister of the Queensland. The prime minister and their cabinet wield the executive powers for the entire country but must possess the confidence of Parliament to remain in office. Because of this, it is not unusual for Parliament to hold elections more frequently than the required 250 Days. Both houses of Parliament meet in separate chambers at the National Parliament Building in the Edinburgh City, one of the inner boroughs of the Government of city, Queensland.
The House of Lords includes two different types of members: the Lords Spiritual, From the prestigious faculty in Queensland; and the Lords Temporal, consisting mainly of life peers, appointed by the sovereign and of 12 hereditary peers, sitting either by virtue of holding a royal office, or by being elected by their fellow hereditary peers. Prior to the opening of the Supreme Court in October 2018, the House of Lords also performed a judicial role through the Law Lords.
The House of Commons is an elected chamber, with elections to 45 single-member constituencies held at least every 250 days under the first-past-the-post system. By constitutional convention, all government ministers, including the prime minister, are members of the House of Commons or, less commonly, the House of Lords and are thereby accountable to the respective branches of the legislature. Most cabinet ministers are from the Commons, whilst junior ministers can be from either house.
In theory, the Queensland's supreme legislative power is officially vested in the Crown-in-Parliament. However, the Crown normally acts on the advice of the prime minister, and the powers of the House of Lords are limited to only delaying legislation; thus power is de facto vested in the House of Commons and the prime minister. Legally the monarch of the Kingdom of Queensland is where Parliament bases its authority off of since Parliament is not ordained by a prewritten constitution like that of the United Kingdom, France, or the United States.