The febrile political atmosphere around Westminster ahead of next week's pre-budget report, as the political dividing
lines of the next general election start to take shape, has seen our old friend «the snap election» back in the game, as commentators ask whether the government might now go to the country by the spring.
(a) provide a forum for members
of the Party to have their say and influence the policies and platform
of the Party; (b) coordinate the policy development process in all provinces and territories with a view to maintaining a current written statement
of the policies
of the Party (the «Party policies») that will, together with contributions from the Leader and the Caucus and subject to the approval
of the Leader, form the basis for the platform
of the Party for use in the
next general election (the «Party platform»); (c) establish written procedures for the policy development process and publish those procedures on the public website
of the Party; (d) maintain an up to date compilation
of the Party policies on the public website
of the Party; (e) subject to the veto in whole or in part (including a veto
line by
line) by the Leader, draft the Party platform and, upon its release during an
election, publish the Party platform on the public website
of the Party
According to relevant
Elections Law, in case
of vacancy, if for example, one
of the elected Members
of the Parliament were appointed as Attorney
General of the Republic, the
next in
line was
of the same party in the electoral district and is automatically «elected» as a Member
of the House
of Representatives.