Minority Governments in Australia - Texts of Accords, Charters and Agreements

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Issues Backgrounder 01/2010

Minority Governments in Australia - Texts of Accords, Charters and Agreements This Issues Backgrounder is a companion document to Minority Governments in Australia 1989-2009: Accords, Charters and Agreements, Background Paper No 1/2010 by Gareth Griffith. Its purpose is to offer access to the texts of the relevant agreements upon which minority governments in Australia have been formed. It is also planned to update this Issues Backgrounder, by adding any future documents of this kind. The co-operation of all other Parliamentary Libraries is acknowledged and will, it is hoped, continue into the future as new minority governments are formed in any of the Australian jurisdictions. The plan therefore is for this document to operate as a permanent electronic repository for relevant accords, charters and agreements. The documents are presented in chronological order. Tasmanian Greens/ALP Accord 1989 NSW Charter of Reform 1991 NSW Memorandum of Understanding between non-aligned Independents and Greiner, 1991 Liz Cunningham speech, Queensland 1996 Wellington-Beattie agreement, Queensland 1998 Moore-Carnell agreement, ACT 1998 Victorian Independents’ Charter, 1999 Jeff Kennett’s response to Independents’ Charter, 1999 Peter Lewis compact for good government, SA 2002 Rory McEwen agreement with Rann, SA 2002 Karlene Maywald agreement with Rann, SA 2004 Brendon Grylls (Nationals) agreement with Barnett, WA 2008 Labor’s proposed agreement with Grylls, WA 2008 Greens/Labor Parliamentary Agreement, ACT 2008 Gerry Wood Parliamentary Agreement with Paul Henderson, NT 2009 Labor/Greens Agreements Tasmania 2010 Gillard Government 2010