Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carmel Maher
The ACT Legislative Assembly is the functional equivalent of a State Parliament except for having its legislative powers subject to Commonwealth veto (very rarely exercised). It otherwise has all the powers that a State has (indeed in some respects more, because there is no local government in the ACT). Therefore, in my view, she passes . Sadly, the Canberra Times does not archive its articles so it would take a hurculean effort to find a substantial degree of coverage. But at the least, the facts that she was an MLA, formed a political party, and brought down a government, can be verified: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NMrav_dyyY0C&pg=PA122&dq=%22carmel+maher%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22carmel%20maher%22&f=false 1 and http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=UJQQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MpEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5040,4608673&dq=carmel-maher&hl=en 2
— User:Mkativerata, 01:40, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:POLITICIAN (Wikipedia:Notability)