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Four-year terms: an outsider perspective

19 March 2024

2:00 AM

19 March 2024

2:00 AM

Australia’s current Prime Minister has suggested that Commonwealth Parliaments should go four years between elections, instead of the current three. As it says in the Daily Mail:

Three-year term limits for federal MPs are too short, the Prime Minister says, but he admits changes to time spent in Parliament are unlikely to happen soon.

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