page_title: Politics of Queensland
section_title: Legislature
hierarchical_section_title: Politics of Queensland / Legislature
caption_attribution_description: English: Parliament House, Brisbane, Queensland with Christmas tree in 2019
context_page_description: One of the six founding states of Australia, Queensland has been a federated state subject to the Australian Constitution since 1 January 1901. It is sovereign, other than in the matters ceded in the Australian Constitution to the federal government. It is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The Constitution of Queensland sets out the operation of the state's government. The state'a constitution contains several entrenched provisions which cannot be changed in the absence of a referendum. There is also a statutory bill of rights, the Queensland Human Rights Act. Queensland's system of government is influenced by the Westminster system and Australia's federal system of government.
  The government is separated into three branches:
  Legislature: the unicameral Parliament of Queensland, comprising the Legislative Assembly and the Monarch;
  Executive: the Executive Council of Queensland, which formalises decisions of the Cabinet of Queensland, which is composed of the Premier and other ministers of state appointed by the Governor on the advice of Parliament;
  Judiciary: the Supreme Court and other state courts, whose judges are appointed by the Governor on advice of Parliament.
context_section_description: Legislative authority is exercised by the Queensland Parliament which uniquely for Australian states is unicameral, containing only one house, the Legislative Assembly. The Parliament was bicameral until 1922, when the Legislative Council was abolished by the Labor "suicide squad", so called because they were appointed for the purpose of voting to abolish their own offices. Bills receive royal assent from the Governor before being passed into law. The Parliament's seat is at Parliament House at Gardens Point in Brisbane's CBD. Members of the Legislative Assemby represent 93 electoral districts. Elections in Queensland are held at the end of each fixed four-year parliamentary term, and are determined by instant-runoff voting.
caption: Parliament House, seat of the Queensland Parliament
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