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CeBIT
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CeBIT is the largest and most internationally represented computer expo. The trade fair is each year on the Hanover fairground. It is considered a barometer of current trends and a measure of the state of the art in information technology and it is organized by Deutsche Messe AG. The 2015 CeBIT expo was held from the 16th to the 20th of March, CeBIT was traditionally the computing part of the Hanover Fair, a big industry trade show held every year. It was first established in 1970, with the opening of the Hanover fairgrounds new Hall 1, while by 2007 the CeBIT expo attendance had shrunk to around 200,000 from those all-time highs, attendance rebounded to 334,000 by 2010. The 2008 expo was marred by the raids of 51 exhibitors for patent infringement. In 2009, the U. S. state of California became official Partner State of Germanys IT and telecommunications industry association, BITKOM, however, after being held twice, the 2000 CeBIT Home was cancelled and the project was abandoned. It was held in 2003 and 2004, but subsequently cancelled in 2005, CeBIT India, in Bangalore, India Running over a five-day period in Hanover, Germany, the CeBIT Global Conferences are staged congruently with the CeBIT exhibition. The conferences are dedicated to providing a 360° overview of the digital industry’s four core markets, IT, Telecommunications, Digital Media and Consumer Electronics. Noted industry figures and researchers from across the globe are invited to speak on the latest relevant trends and innovations as well as their impact on society, the conference is divided up into keynote speeches, talks and panel discussions. The CGC conferences are produced by Deutsche Messe AG, with the German BITKOM association acting as the CGC patron since 2009, in 2014, the CGC were staged with 140 speakers on three stages with a program of 70 conference hours and 3000 participants. Target groups of the conference are CXOs, managers, experts, visionaries and out-of-the-box thinkers, Conference languages are English, recent conferences have featured the following keynote themes,2008, Improving Life in the Global Village. This installment of CGC attracted 1900 visitors and 43 speakers attending the keynotes,2009, How Will We Be Working, Living and Communicating in the Coming Years. This CGC drew 3,133 visitors from 88 nations, with some 2,200 guests following the conference via live streaming. 2010, The Challenges of a Changing World - ICT for Better Lives and Better Business, just under 4,000 guests also visited the conference via live streaming. The motto of the CeBIT Global Conferences for 2011 was The Power of Creativity, CeBIT has also become a platform for recognising achievement by ICT businesses, particularly in Australia. The awards include the Excellence in Communications Award, the Advanced Retail Technology Award, the Innovative IT Security Award, notable past winners include Motorola, McAfee and eWAY
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Deputy Premier of New South Wales
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The Deputy Premier of New South Wales is the second-most senior officer in the Government of New South Wales. The Deputy Premiership has been a ministerial portfolio since 1932, the current Deputy Premier is the National Partys John Barilaro, who was sworn in on 15 November 2016. The office of Deputy Premier was created in May 1932 for Michael Bruxner, prior to that time the term was sometimes used unofficially for the second-highest ranking minister in the government. In Labor governments, the Deputy Premier is the deputy leader. Generally speaking, this person has come from the faction of the party whereas the Premier has come from the right faction. In Liberal-National Coalition governments, the position has held by the Leader of the National Party or its predecessors. Three Deputy Premiers have subsequently become Premier in their own right, Joseph Cahill, Robert Heffron, however, this has not occurred since 1964. The duties of the Deputy Premier are to act on behalf of the Premier in his or her absence overseas or on leave, the Deputy Premier has always been a member of the Cabinet, and has always held at least one substantive portfolio. If the Premier were to die, become incapacitated or resign, if the governing or majority party had not yet elected a new leader, that appointment would be on an interim basis. Should a different leader emerge, that person would then be appointed Premier, there are five living former Deputy Premiers. The most recent death of a Deputy Premier was that of Ron Mulock, Leader of the New South Wales National Party
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National Party of Australia
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The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party. Traditionally representing graziers, farmers, and rural voters generally, it began as the Australian Country Party in 1920 at a federal level and it would later briefly adopt the name National Country Party in 1975, before adopting its current name in 1982. In Opposition the Coalition was usually maintained, but otherwise still generally continued to work in co-operation with the Liberal Party of Australia. In Queensland however, they were the coalition party between 1925 and 2008, after which they merged with the junior Liberal Party of Australia to form the Liberal National Party. The current federal leader and Deputy Prime Minister is Barnaby Joyce, both were elected in a party-room ballot on 11 February 2016, following the retirement of former leader and Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss and the elevation of former deputy leader Joyce. Australias first Country Party was founded in 1912 by Harry J. Stephens, editor of The Farmer & Settler, the VFU won a seat in the House of Representatives at the Corangamite by-election held in December 1918, with the help of the newly-introduced preferential voting system. At the 1919 federal election the state-based Country Parties won federal seats in New South Wales, Victoria and they also began to win seats in state parliaments. In 1920 the Country Party was established as a party led by William McWilliams from Tasmania. McWilliams would later leave the Country Party to sit as an Independent, according to historian B. D. Graham, the graziers who operated the sheep stations were politically conservative. They disliked the Labor Party, which represented their workers, and feared that Labor governments would pass legislation and listen to foreigners. The graziers were satisfied with the organisation of their industry, opposed any change in land tenure and labour relations, and advocated lower tariffs, low freight rates. On the other hand, Graham reports, the farmers, not the graziers. The farmers advocated government intervention in the market price support schemes. The graziers often politically and financially supported the Country party, which in turn made the Country party more conservative, at the 1922 election, it won enough seats to deny the Nationalists an overall majority, and was the Nationalists only realistic coalition partner. However, Page let it be known that his party would not serve under Hughes, Page then entered negotiations with the Nationalists new leader, Stanley Bruce, for a coalition government. Pages terms were stiff—five seats in a Cabinet of 11, including the Treasurer portfolio, nonetheless, Bruce readily agreed, and the Bruce-Page Ministry was formed—thus beginning the tradition of the partys leader ranking second in Coalition cabinets. The coalition was re-formed under Archie Cameron in 1940, and continued until October 1941 despite the election of Arthur Fadden as leader after the 1940 Election, Fadden was well regarded within conservative circles and proved to be a loyal deputy to Menzies in the difficult circumstances of 1941. When Menzies was forced to resign as Prime Minister, the UAP was so bereft of leadership that Fadden briefly succeeded him, however, the two independents who had been propping up the government rejected Faddens budget and brought the government down
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Queanbeyan
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Queanbeyan /ˈkwiːnbiən/ is a city in south-eastern New South Wales, located adjacent to the Australian Capital Territory in the Southern Tablelands region. Located on the Queanbeyan River, the city is the seat of the Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 37,991, Queanbeyans economy is based on light construction, manufacturing, service, retail and agriculture. Canberra, Australias capital, is located just 15 kilometres to the west, the word Queanbeyan is the anglicised form of Quinbean, an Aboriginal word meaning clear waters. The town grew from a squattage held by ex-convict and inn keeper, Timothy Beard, the town centre of Queanbeyan is located on the Queanbeyan River, a tributary of the Molonglo River and about one mile east of Oaks Estate. Queanbeyan was officially proclaimed a township in 1838 when the population was about 50, the local parish was also known by that name and later still the member for the electorate of Queanbeyan held a seat in the legislative assembly of the colony of NSW. On 28 November 1837 the Colonial Secretary announced the appointment of Captain Alured Tasker Faunce as resident police magistrate at Queanbeyan and his homestead, called Dodsworth, was situated on the banks of the Queanbeyan river opposite the town. Traces of gold were discovered in 1851 and lead and silver mines also flourished briefly, settlers were harassed by bushrangers, of which James Shaw, William Millet, and John Rueben, John Tennant, Jacky Jacky, Frank Gardiner and Ben Hall were some of the more notorious. In 1836, a Post Office was established, the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited opened in Queanbeyan on 19 September 1859. The Bank of New South Wales began service in Queanbeyan in 1878, the Golden Age was Queanbeyans first newspaper and was founded in 1860 by John Gale. In 1880 the residence of John James Wright, the first mayor of Queanbeyan, was constructed along the edge of the Queanbeyan River, in 1982 that building became the Queanbeyan Art Centre. The Salvation Army claimed an outpost in Queanbeyan in 1884, Queanbeyan, an increasingly successful primary producing district, was proclaimed a Municipality in February 1885 incorporating an area of 5,700 acres. The railway reached Queanbeyan railway station in 1887 and it became the junction for the going to Canberra. The town is served by the thrice-daily NSW TrainLink Xplorer service between Canberra and Sydney, at the height of its rural prosperity Queanbeyan boasted sixteen public houses and six flourmills powered by wind, water, horse and steam. The Royal Hotel on Monaro Street opened in 1926, in Canberra alcohol was prohibited from 1911, at the time of the territorys foundation, until 1928, when Federal Parliament had relocated from Melbourne. In that period many of the residents crossed the border to drink at one of Queanbeyans hotels. Queanbeyan was granted city status on 7 July 1972, on 21 July 1975 the Queens Bridge was opened. This bridge took pressure off the bridge in linking Monaro Street directly to the east
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New South Wales state election, 2015
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A general election for the 56th Parliament of New South Wales was held on Saturday 28 March 2015. Members were elected to all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly using optional preferential voting, Members were also elected to 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council using optional preferential proportional representation voting. The election was conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission, the main Opposition Labor Party under Luke Foley won an increased share of the vote in most districts, though the party lost ground in some key races, including Foleys seat of Auburn. It managed to take 14 seats off the Coalition, mostly in areas of Labor heartland lost to the Liberals during the landslide in 2011, most notably, Labor regained seats in west Sydney, the Central Coast and the lower Hunter. Baird had campaigned on a plan to lease 49 per cent of the state-owned electricity distribution network in order to deliver an ambitious transport. Although the poles-and-wires proposal was received in opinion polls, Baird himself was widely liked by the electorate. Candidate nominations closed on 12 March and early voting began on the 16th, eleven seats won by the Liberals and Nationals in 2011 went to other parties in 2015. Incumbent Liberal MPs were defeated by Labor challengers in Blue Mountains, Campbelltown, Granville, Rockdale, incumbents Don Page and Robyn Parker retired, with the Greens taking Pages seat of Ballina and Labor taking Parkers seat of Maitland. Londonderry, Port Stephens and Wyong, whose Liberal incumbents had been sitting as independents since 2013 and retired in 2015, former Liberal Edwards, in Swansea, re-contested the seat as an independent but lost to Labor challenger Yasmin Catley. Miranda Labor MP Collier had retired at the 2011 election, with the Liberals Annesley picking up the seat on a swing of nearly 22 points. When Annesley quit politics in 2013, Collier returned to contest the by-election, Collier decided not to re-contest the seat in 2015, and the Liberals Eleni Petinos took it with 63 per cent of the primary vote. Northern Tablelands, won by an independent in 2011 and lost to the Nationals in 2013, was retained by the Nationals, Charlestown and Newcastle, won by the Liberals in 2011 and lost to Labor at by-elections in 2014, were retained by Labor. Following the 2013 redistribution the ABC recalculated the 2011 election results based on the new boundaries and these calculations deemed Macquarie Fields, a Labor marginal, notionally Liberal. The new seat of Prospect, which replaced Liberal-held Smithfield, was also considered notionally Liberal, in Macquarie Fields, incumbent Labor MP Andrew McDonald did not re-contest and Labor candidate Anoulack Chanthivong defeated Liberal Pat Farmer. In Prospect, the sitting Smithfield MP, Andrew Rohan, was defeated by Labor candidate Hugh McDermott, Labor governed NSW from 1995 until 2011. Over the course of its last two terms, a succession of changes, criminal convictions, corruption scandals and cancelled infrastructure projects began to eat away at Labors support base. In a harbinger of things to come, the previously safe Labor seats of Ryde, in March 2011, the Liberals and Nationals, led by the Liberals Barry OFarrell, won one of the most comprehensive state-level victories since Federation, taking 69 seats in the Legislative Assembly. In 2013, the Nationals won a by-election in Northern Tablelands after independent MP Richard Torbay resigned over corruption allegations, the win in Northern Tablelands represented the high point for the Government party room
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Malcolm Turnbull
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Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is the 29th and current Prime Minister of Australia. The Turnbull Government was re-elected at the 2016 federal election though with a bare one-seat majority, Turnbull attended Sydney Grammar School before going to the University of Sydney, where he attained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws. Turnbull then attended Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, elevated to the Howard Cabinet in January 2007, he briefly served as Minister for the Environment and Water. Following the defeat of the Liberal Government at the 2007 federal election, Turnbull declared himself a candidate in the subsequent leadership election, following a period of poor opinion polling, Turnbull challenged and defeated Nelson by four votes and became Leader of the Opposition. This led to persistent tensions within the Liberal Party, with Turnbulls support for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme proposed by the Rudd Government in late 2009 eventually causing a split. Tony Abbott, who was opposed to the Scheme, subsequently challenged Turnbull, Turnbull was subsequently sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia the following day and formed the Turnbull Government. However, at the closest federal majority result since the 1961 election, Malcolm Turnbull was born in Sydney on 24 October 1954 to Bruce Bligh Turnbull and Coral Magnolia Lansbury. Turnbulls maternal grandmother, May Lansbury, was born in England, Turnbulls father was a hotel broker. Turnbulls mother was an actor, a writer, an academic. Turnbull suffered asthma as a young child, Turnbulls parents separated when he was nine, with Turnbulls mother leaving first for New Zealand, and then the United States. Turnbull was then raised by his father, Turnbull is of direct paternal Scottish descent, his great-great-great grandfather John Turnbull arrived in 1802 in New South Wales and became a tailor. During his childhood, he practised Presbyterianism before becoming a Roman Catholic, Turnbull spent his first three years of school at Vaucluse Public School. He then attended the St Ives preparatory school at Sydney Grammar School as a boarder, in senior school he was a boarder at the former Randwick campus of the school while attending classes at the main College Street campus on a partial scholarship. He was senior school co-captain in 1972, as well as winning the Lawrence Campbell Oratory Competition, excelling particularly in the subjects such as English. However, contrary to certain sources, Turnbull was not the dux of his year at Sydney Grammar. In 1987, in memory of his father, he set up the Bruce Turnbull means-tested scholarship at Sydney Grammar. In 1973, Turnbull attended the University of Sydney and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977, during his studies, he was active in student politics, serving as board director of the University of Sydney Union. He also worked as a political journalist for Nation Review, Radio 2SM, in 1978, Turnbull won a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Brasenose College, Oxford, where he studied for a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from 1978 to 1980, graduating with honours
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Julie Bishop
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Julie Isabel Bishop is an Australian politician, serving as the Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2013, and the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party since 2007. Bishop grew up in the Adelaide Hills and was educated at the St Peters Collegiate Girls School, prior to entering politics, she was managing partner of major Australian law firm Clayton Utz. Bishop began her career as a member of the Australian House of Representatives during the 1998 federal election for the seat of Curtin in Western Australia. She is the first female deputy leader of the Liberal Party and was the woman to hold the title of Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Bishop was born in Lobethal, South Australia, growing up on a farm in the Adelaide Hills. She was educated at St Peters Collegiate Girls School and later at the University of Adelaide and she practised as a barrister and solicitor at the Adelaide law firm Mangan, Ey & Bishop, where she was a partner. In 1983, Bishop moved to Perth, Western Australia, where she practised as a commercial litigation solicitor at Clayton Utz and she became a partner of Clayton Utz in 1985. Bishop became managing partner of the Perth office of Clayton Utz in 1994, in 1996, she attended Harvard Business School for eight weeks to complete an Advanced Management Program for Senior Managers. It was during this course that she was inspired to serve her country, after she returned from America, there she met David Johnston, president of the WA Liberals, who convinced her to enter federal politics. She has also served on the Council of Governors of the Lions Ear, following the Liberals February 2001 state election loss by Richard Court to Geoff Gallop, Bishop was mooted as a possible contender for leader of the state opposition. Initially, Court announced that he would lead the Liberals into opposition, however, behind the scenes he was engineering a deal under which both he and his deputy leader and factional opponent, Colin Barnett, would resign from the state legislature. The deal soon collapsed, however, when Bishop turned it down, declaring that the arrangement wasnt bizarre, Court was forced to leave politics altogether, and Barnett took over as state opposition leader. Bishop was appointed Minister for Ageing in 2003, Bishops education policies centred on the development of national education standards as well as performance-based pay for teachers. On 13 April 2007, the Australian state governments expressed opposition to Bishops policies, in the 2007 budget, the federal government announced a $5b endowment fund for higher education, with the expressed goal of providing world-class tertiary institutions in Australia. Some of Bishops comments, such as the states have ideologically hijacked school syllabi and are wasting $180 million in unnecessary duplication, were criticised by teachers. An advance media kit for a 2006 speech claimed parts of the contemporary curriculum came straight from Chairman Mao, however, Bishop facilitated Johnstons access to the Howard government at the highest level, compounding extensive official complicity and Austrade funding of the multimillion-dollar scam. For example, Firepower was promoted as a co-sponsor of the trade show Australia Week in Moscow, following the Coalitions loss at the 2007 election, Bishop was elected deputy leader of the Liberal Party under Brendan Nelson on 29 November 2007. In a ballot of Liberal party room members, Bishop prevailed with 44 votes, Nelson opted not to give National Party leader Warren Truss the post of Deputy Leader of the Opposition, instead giving it to Bishop
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is Australias national public broadcaster, owned and funded by the government. The ABC plays a role in the history of broadcasting in Australia. With a total budget of A$1. Founded in 1929 as the Australian Broadcasting Company, it was made a state-owned corporation on 1 July 1932 as the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 changed the name of the organisation to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, although funded and owned by the government, the ABC remains editorially independent as ensured through the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983. The ABC is sometimes referred to as Aunty, originally in imitation of the British Broadcasting Corporations nickname. The first public station in Australia opened in Sydney on 23 November 1923 under the call sign 2SB with other stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth. It also nationalised the Australian Broadcasting Company which had created by entertainment interests to supply programs to various radio stations. Over the next four years the stations were reformed into a broadcasting organisation through regular program relays. The Australian broadcast radio spectrum was constituted of the ABC and the commercial sector, in 1942 The Australian Broadcasting Act was passed, giving the ABC the power to decide when, and in what circumstances, political speeches should be broadcast. Directions from the Minister about whether or not to broadcast any matter now had to be made in writing and it was used only once, in 1963. In the same year, Kindergarten of the Air began on ABC Radio in Perth, cater argues that reform was urgently needed in 1945, By the end of World War II, the ABC was a decadent, hollow institution. Its authority had been compromised by a poorly drafted charter and further undermined by timid management, poor governance, in April 1945, Boyer refused to accept the post of chairman until Prime Minister Curtin issued a mandate of independence which Boyer drafted itself. The ABC commenced television broadcasting in 1956, and followed the earlier practice of naming the station after the first letter of the base state. ABN-2 Sydney was inaugurated by Prime Minister Robert Menzies on 5 November 1956, with the first broadcast presented by Michael Charlton, aBV-2 followed two weeks later, on 18 November 1956. Stations in other cities followed, ABQ-2, ABS-2, ABW-2. ABC-3 Canberra opened in 1961, and ABD-6 started broadcasting in 1971, although radio programs could be distributed nationally by landline, television relay facilities were not in place until the early 1960s. This meant that news bulletins had to be sent to each city by teleprinter, to be prepared and presented separately in each city, with filmed materials copied manually
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Parliament of New South Wales
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The Parliament of New South Wales, located in Parliament House on Macquarie Street, Sydney, is the main legislative body in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a parliament elected by the people of the state in general elections. The parliament shares law making powers with the Australian Federal Parliament, the New South Wales Parliament follows the Westminster parliamentary traditions of dress, Green–Red chamber colours and protocol. The Parliament derives its authority from the Queen of Australia, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, represented by the Governor of New South Wales and it consists of a lower house, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and an upper house, the New South Wales Legislative Council. Each house is elected by the people of New South Wales at elections held approximately every four years. The Parliament of New South Wales is Australias oldest legislature and it had its beginnings when New South Wales was a British colony under the control of the Governor. A small, appointed Legislative Council began meeting in 1824 to advise the Governor on legislative matters, by 1843, this had been enlarged with two-thirds of its members elected by adult males who met certain property requirements. The right to vote was extended to all males in 1858. In 1850 the Australian Colonies Government Act was passed by the Imperial Parliament and this expanded the New South Wales Legislative Council so that by 1851 there were 54 members – again, with two-thirds elected. In 1853, a committee chaired by William Wentworth began drawing up a Constitution for responsible self-government. The Committee’s proposed Constitution was placed before the Legislative Council in August that year and, for the most part, the Constitution, with an upper house whose members were appointed for life, was sent to the Imperial Parliament and was passed into law on 16 July 1855. The new Parliament of New South Wales was to be a bicameral legislature, on 22 May 1856, the newly constituted New South Wales Parliament opened and sat for the first time. With the new 54-member Legislative Assembly taking over the council chamber, in 1859 Queensland was made a colony separate from New South Wales. The Legislative Assembly was reduced from 80 to 72 members by the loss of the Queensland seats, in 1901, New South Wales became a state of the Commonwealth of Australia and many government functions were transferred to the new Commonwealth government. The current Constitution of New South Wales was adopted in 1902, women gained the right to vote in Commonwealth elections in April 1902 and in New South Wales state elections in August 1902. In 1918, reforms permitted women to be Members of Parliament and that same year, a proportional representation system was introduced for the Legislative Assembly with multiple representatives from each electorate, this system lasted until it was abolished in 1926. In 1925,1926 and 1929, Premier Jack Lang made attempts at abolishing the Legislative Council, following the example of the Queensland Legislative Council in 1922, in 1962 Indigenous Australians gained the right to vote in all state elections. In 1978, the Council became an elected body in a program of electoral reform introduced by the Wran Labor government
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Alan Jones (radio broadcaster)
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Alan Belford Jones AO is an Australian radio broadcaster. He is a coach of the Australian National Rugby Union Team and rugby league coach. He has worked as a teacher, a speech writer in the office of the Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland and he has received civil and industry awards. Jones hosts a popular Sydney breakfast radio program, on radio station 2GB, Jones advocates mainly conservative views, and the popularity of his radio program has made him a highly paid and influential media personality in Australia. Despite his success, he remains a controversial figure and his on-air conduct has received adverse findings from Australias media regulators, and he has frequently been sued for defamation. Jones was born to farmer and coal miner Charlie Thomas and former school teacher Elizabeth Beth. Alan was the middle of three children, with a brother, Robert Charles, and a younger sister, Colleen. Jones was raised on a farm near Oakey in south-east Queensland, attending primary school at Acland State School. After leaving school, Jones trained as a teacher at the Kelvin Grove Teachers College in Brisbane, in 1961 he commenced his teaching career at a state primary school, Ironside State School in the inner suburbs of Brisbane. In 1963 he obtained a position at Brisbane Grammar School, a secondary school for boys. Throughout this period he also studied part-time at the University of Queensland for a Bachelor of Arts degree, apart from his teaching duties at Brisbane Grammar, Jones additionally proved to be a highly successful sporting coach in athletics, tennis, and, later, rugby union. In 1970, Jones was appointed Senior English Master at The Kings School, at the end of the first term in 1975, following a meeting with the schools principal, Jones chose to resign from the school. After leaving Kings School Jones briefly moved to Canberra where he made a bid to win preselection to stand as a Country Party candidate for federal parliament. He then spent several years as the manager of an airline in Quirindi in country New South Wales. During this same period, over 1976–77 while in his mid-30s, Jones spent time in England where he completed a diploma in educational studies at Worcester College. While at Oxford Jones won a University Blue for tennis, in 1978, Jones returned to Sydney to run for the State Parliament as a Liberal Party candidate. After failing to win his seat in the election, Jones worked for some time as a speechwriter for the Liberal NSW Opposition leader, John Mason
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New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council, both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is presided over by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, the Assembly has 93 members, elected by single-member constituency, which are commonly known as seats. Voting is by the preferential system. Members of the Legislative Assembly have the initialism MP after their names, from the creation of the assembly up to about 1990, the initialism MLA was used. The Legislative Assembly was created in 1856 with the introduction of a parliament for the Crown Colony of New South Wales. In the beginning, only men were eligible to be members of the Assembly, following Australias federation in 1901, the New South Wales parliament became a State legislature. Women were granted the right to vote in 1902, and gained the right to be members of the Assembly in 1918, the Legislative Assembly sits in the oldest legislative chamber in Australia. Originally built for the Legislative Council in 1843, it has been in use since 1856. The colour of the Legislative Assembly chamber is green, which follows the British tradition for lower houses, most legislation is initiated in the Legislative Assembly. The party or coalition with a majority of seats in the house is invited by the Governor to form government. The leader of that party subsequently becomes Premier of New South Wales, as Australian political parties traditionally vote along party lines, most legislation introduced by the governing party will pass through the Legislative Assembly. As with the parliament and other Australian states and territories. Elections are held four years on the fourth Saturday in March, exceptional circumstances notwithstanding. 47 votes as a majority are required to pass legislation, the clerk of the house of the NSW Legislative Assembly is the senior administrative officer. The clerk advises the speaker of the Assembly and members of parliament on matters of parliamentary procedure, the office is modelled on the clerk of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The serjeant has the authority to remove disorderly people, by force if necessary, once a meeting has started in an Assembly, the serjeant will usually stand at the door to keep authority and make sure no one else comes in or out
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Gladys Berejiklian
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Gladys Berejiklian is the 45th Premier of New South Wales and the Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party, offices which she assumed on 23 January 2017 following the resignation of Mike Baird. She has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 2003 and she was also the Deputy Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party between 2014 and 2017. Berejiklian was born in Sydney, the eldest of three born to Armenian immigrant parents, Krikor and Arsha. Her grandparents were orphaned in the Armenian Genocide in 1915, Berejiklian spoke only Armenian until she was five years old, when she began learning English. She has remained involved in the Armenian-Australian community, serving a term on the Armenian National Committee of Australia, in 2015, she attended a commemoration ceremony in Yerevan for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Berejiklian attended North Ryde High School, which became Peter Board High School from 1986 and she was a member of Girl Guides and continues to support the organisation. She has a Bachelor of Arts and a diploma in international studies from the University of Sydney. She joined the Liberal Party in 1993 and was president of the New South Wales Young Liberals from 1997 to 1998, being the third female president in its history. She also served as a Delegate to State Council, Urban Representative of the NSW Liberal Party State Executive, Campaign Director for State seat of Willougby and Chair of Convention Committee. Berejiklian also worked for Peter Collins and Senator Helen Coonan and the Commonwealth Bank as general manager, Youth Retail Banking, Berejiklian supports the Australian republican movement. Following the 2007 State election, she was given the portfolio of Citizenship by Opposition Leader OFarrell. Following the election of the OFarrell government at the 2011 state election, on 3 April 2011 Berejiklian was appointed Transport Minister, Berejiklian has been outspoken against the former NSW Labor Governments handling of trains, buses and ferries. In a subsequent ministerial reshuffle, in addition to her existing responsibilities, as Treasurer, Berejiklian oversaw New South Wales return to surplus. This was the first time New South Wales had been declared debt-free in more than 20 years and she also oversaw the privatization of the states electricity network. Baird endorsed Berejiklian as his successor, declaring that she would be an outstanding Premier, Berejiklian ministry First Baird ministry Second Baird ministry OFarrell ministry List of female heads of government in Australia gladys. com. au Premier. nsw. gov. au
