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Australian parliament’s history

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Around 500 BC the ANCIENT GREEKS established an Assembly, or Ecclesia, which convened on the Pnyx, a hill in central Athens, GreeceAustralia established its first federal Parliament in 1901. Compared to some parliaments around the world, Australia's is quite young, but it is based on practices and ideals from parliaments in centuries past. A parliament is an assembly of elected representatives of a people or a nation, which forms the supreme legislative (law-making) authority for that people or nation



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