Australian House of Representatives

The 'House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the parliament of Australia. The other is the Senate.

The 148 members of the house are elected from single-member geographic districts (called "seats") which are intended to represent reasonably contiguous regions, with approximately equal population in each. instant runoff voting (usually termed "preferential voting") is used to elect them.

According to Australia's constitution, the powers of both houses are nearly equal with the consent of both houses needed to pass legislation. In practice, however, the "House" or "Lower House" as it is called, is far stronger in some ways, and far weaker in others.

By convention, the party or coalition in the lower house with a majority is invited by the governor-general to form government, and thus the leader of the 6tnhfnnhutkgmmmCommons]], the House of Representatives is decorated in green.