Australian House of Representatives |House of Representatives|
|Type||Lower house of the Parliament of Australia| |Speaker of
the House||Anna Burke, Labor Since 9 October 2012 |Last
election||21 August 2010| |House of Representatives| |This
article is part of the series: Politics and government of The
House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers) of
the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper
house is the Senate. Members of Parliament (MPs) serve for terms
of approximately three years. The present Parliament, as elected
at the 2010 election, is the 43rd Federal Parliament since
Federation. It is the first hung parliament in the House of
Representatives since the 1940 election, with Labor and the
Coalition winning 72 seats each of 150 total. Six crossbenchers
hold the balance of power: Greens MP Adam Bandt and independent
MPs Andrew Wilkie, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor declared their
support for Labor on confidence and supply, independent MP Bob
Katter and National Party of W