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The article looks at politics in Australia in 2007. Changes made to the cabinet of Prime Minister John Howard are reviewed, noting the replacement of Minister for the Environment and Heritage Ian Gordon Campbell by Malcolm Bligh Turnbull. A chart is presented which compares the number of seats in the Australian House of Representatives won by political parties during the election of November 24, 2007, including the National Party, the Green Party, and the Labor Party. Several major issues in national politics are discussed, including the Workplace Relations Amendment Act, Howard's election loss to Kevin Rudd, and political leadership.

Presents an overview of the political structure of and issues in Australia in 2004. Issues in national politics, including the performance of the political parties at the 2004 election; Free trade agreement reached between Australia and the U.S.; Political significance of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunamis within Australia.

Presents an overview of political issues in Australia in 2002. Death of numerous Australians in the bombings in Bali, Indonesia; Actions taken by the government in response to refugees seeking political asylum in the country; Leadership replacements in the Australian Democratic Party.

The article focuses on several issues concerning national politics in Australia. According to the authors, the year 1999 was filled with debates on taxation reforms, the move for Australia to become a republic, and its dealings with the future of East Timor. The country is dominated by the Liberal party headed by Prime Minister John Howard who strongly voted no to retain the country's status under the queen of Great Britain, while most Australians were in favor of a republic. Furthermore, the article also includes a list of cabinet members of Howard including the number and percentage of parliamentary seats.

The inheritance and continuity of party identification is usually traced to the predominant influence of parental political socialization. This paper applies multivanate analysis to Australian and British data to examine (1) the relative importance of parents' partisanship and social milieu on the respondent's own partisanship and (2) the influence of parents' partisanship on the preferences of the respondent in later life. The analysis shows that, in both countries, the social milieu of the family has little or no effect on the preferences of the children and it is the partisanship of the parents that is the dominant factor. In addition, we show that the influence of parents' partisanship is limited to early adulthood and to the first partisanship of the child; it has little or no direct influence on the respondent's subsequent electoral behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the updates of national politics with information on the political party composition and cabinet members under the leadership of Prime Minister Paul Keating in Australia in 1992. It informs that Labor Party was the leading party in the country with 78 parliamentary members and 18 to 19 cabinet members. As such, the resignation of Senator Janet Powell from the Australian Democrats on July 31 has resulted to changes in the party composition of the Upper House of parliament, with 23 senators belonging to Labor Party, 29 to Liberal, 5 to National, 7 to Democrats and 3 to Independents. It was reported that the country was dominated by the recession and the fear on the rising unemployment rate which would affect the improving gross domestic product of the country.