Q:Information: - The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, variously referred to as the Australian Parliament, the Commonwealth Parliament or the Federal Parliament, is the legislative branch of the government of Australia. It consists of three elements: the Queen of Australia, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Queen is represented by the Governor-General. The combination of two elected houses, in which the members of the Senate represent the six States and the two self-governing Territories while the members of the House represent electoral divisions according to population, is modelled on the United States Congress. Through both houses, however, there is a fused executive, drawn from the Westminster System. - A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament. It is sworn into office, with or without the formal support of other parties, to enable a government to be formed. Under such a government, legislation can only be passed with the support of enough other members of the legislature to provide a majority, encouraging multi-partisanship. In bicameral parliaments, the term relates to the situation in chamber whose confidence is considered most crucial to the continuance in office of the government. - The Deputy Prime Minister of Australia is the second-most senior officer in the Government of Australia. The office of Deputy Prime Minister was created as a ministerial portfolio in 1968. The Deputy Prime Minister is appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the Prime Minister. - A federal election was held on Saturday , 21 August 2010 for members of the 43rd Parliament of Australia . The incumbent centre - left Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard won a second term against the opposition centre - right Liberal / National Coalition led by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott , after Labor formed a minority government with the support of three independent MPs and one Australian Greens MP . Labor and the Coalition each won 72 seats in the 150 - seat House of Representatives , four short of the requirement for majority government , resulting in the first hung parliament since the 1940 election . Six crossbenchers held the balance of power . Greens MP Adam Bandt and independent MPs Andrew Wilkie , Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor declared their support for Labor on confidence and supply . Independent MP Bob Katter and National Party of Western Australia MP Tony Crook declared their support for the Coalition on confidence and supply . The resulting 76 -- 74 margin entitled Labor to form a minority government . The Prime Minister , government ministers and parliamentary secretaries were sworn in on 14 September 2010 by the Governor - General Quentin Bryce . In November 2011 , Coalition MP and Deputy Speaker Peter Slipper replaced Labor MP Harry Jenkins as Speaker of the House of Representatives , increasing Labor 's parliamentary majority from 75 -- 74 to 76 -- 73 . In the 76 - seat Senate , the Greens won one seat in each of the six states , gaining the sole balance of power with a total of nine seats , after previously holding a shared balance of power with the Family First Party and independent Nick Xenophon . The Coalition was reduced from 37 to 34 and Labor was reduced from 32 to 31 . The two remaining seats were occupied by Xenophon and Victoria 's new Democratic Labor Party Senator John Madigan . Family First Party Senator Steve Fielding was defeated . These changes took effect in the Senate on 1 July 2011 . More than 14 million Australians were enrolled to vote at the... - William Richard "Bill" Shorten (born 12 May 1967) is an Australian politician who is the current Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Australia, in his capacity as Leader of the Australian Labor Party, after being elected party leader at the 2013 Labor leadership ballot. Shorten led Labor at the 2016 federal election at which the Liberal/National Coalition retained majority government. - Anthony John "Tony" Abbott (born 4 November 1957) is an Australian politician who was the 28th Prime Minister of Australia, from 18 September 2013 to 15September 2015. Abbott was leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2009 to 2015, and has been a member of parliament for Warringah since 1994. - The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia. The party has been in opposition at federal level since the 2013 election. Bill Shorten has been the party's federal parliamentary leader since 13 October 2013. The party is a federal party with branches in each state and territory. Labor is in government in the states of Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The party competes against the Liberal/National Coalition for political office at the federal and state (and sometimes local) levels. - A parliamentary system is a system of democratic governance of a state where the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from the legislature (parliament) and is also held accountable to that legislature. In a parliamentary system, the head of state is normally a different person from the head of government. This is in contrast to a presidential system in a democracy, where the head of state often is also the head of government, and most importantly, the executive branch does not derive its democratic legitimacy from the legislature. - Julia Eileen Gillard, (born 29 September 1961) is a former Australian politician who was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013, as leader of the Australian Labor Party. She was previously the 13th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, and held the cabinet positions of Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion from 2007 to 2010. She was the first and to date only woman to hold the positions of deputy prime minister, prime minister and leader of a major party in Australia. - The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the head of government in Australia. The individual who holds the office is the most senior Minister of the Crown, the leader of the Cabinet and the chairperson of the National Security Committee. The office is not mentioned in the Constitution of Australia and exists only through an unwritten political convention and tradition. Despite this, in practice it is the most powerful parliamentary position in Australia. The individual who holds the office is commissioned by the Governor-General of Australia. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'office contested' with the subject 'australian federal election'. Choices: - chairperson - deputy - governor - head of state - leadership - member - prime minister - prime minister of australia
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prime minister of australia