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Lower Central Province
The Lower Central Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council, located in the South West (Western Australia), South West and Great Southern (Western Australia), Great Southern regions of the state. It was one of several rural seats created following the enactment of the ''Constitution Acts Amendment Act (No.2) 1963'', and became effective on 22 May 1965. Although initially a safe seat for the National Party of Australia (WA), Country Party, it usually only contained one safe Assembly seat for that party, and by 1983, the Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division), Liberal Party were able to maintain both seats comfortably. In 1989, the province was abolished by the ''Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987'', and was divided between the Electoral region of Agricultural, Agricultural and Electoral region of South West, South West regions under the new proportional voting system. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of . It is the List of country subdivisions by area, second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha, Sakha Republic. the state has 2.76 million inhabitants percent of the national total. The vast majority (92 percent) live in the South-West Land Division, south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated. The first Europeans to visit Western Australia belonged to the Dutch Dirk Hartog expedition, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. The first pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
