Election Of First Png House Of Assembly

Papua new guinea s house of assembly.
Election of first png house of assembly. The council was restructured in 1961 to include more pngan members. The pngan members took little part in debate or decision making. The house of assembly of papua and new guinea was the legislature of the territory of papua and new guinea from 1964 to 1972.
A surrogate for the special seats reserved for europeans in the first house the 15 regional seats introduced in 1968 had been occupied by 11 euro. Jump to navigation jump to search. There s no doubt papua new guinea threw up some extraordinary people the like of which i suspect we ll not see again.
Before 1964 the legislative council of papua and new guinea sat from 1951 to 1964 under the papua and new guinea act 1949. The house of assembly had of 34 open electorates 10 electorates reserved for non indigenous members and 10 official members. At the time of writing the elections for the third house have just concluded and there is a brief hiatus before the new members meet.
We lost 21 house of assembly seats and 3 senate seats in 2019 but allah gave us victory in the gubernatorial election. Elected deputy speaker and member of private business committee standing orders committee and statute law revision committee from 1976 1977. 1964 june a 64 member house of assembly replaces legislative council and for the first time indigenous representatives are elected to the majority of seats in the legislature.
This is a list of members of the house of assembly of papua and new guinea from 1964 to 1968. The non official members had been elected at the 1964 election. First elected to 3rd house of assembly 1st national parliament in the 1972 general elections for the rabaul open seat.
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