Premiers (Australia)
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Wikidata:
Q7240389
Library of congress:
sh2016002635
Sources of Information
- Kennedy, P. Tales from Boom Town : Western Australian premiers from Brand to Barnett, 2014.
- Governors & premiers of Western Australia, 2002.
- Brasch, N. Premiers, 2001(series: Australia's government leaders)
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- Premiers of Western Australia, 2013, via Parliamentary Library WA website, Nov. 18, 2016(The Premier is the Head of Government of the State in Western Australia with executive power that is subject to the advice of the Cabinet. After a general election the Premier is the leader of the party, or coalition of parties, with a majority of the 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly. By convention the Premier is commissioned by the Governor to be the 'first among equals', as the leader of the Ministry or Cabinet, and form government. The Premier would resign if the party loses the support of the majority of the house.)
- Collins English dictionary online, Nov. 18, 2016(premier 1. another name for prime minister. 2. any of the heads of governments of the Canadian provinces and the Australian states)
- Oxford dictionaries website, Nov. 18, 2016(premier 1 A prime minister or other head of government. 1.1 (in Australia and Canada) the chief minister of a government of a state or province)
- Premiers of the Australian states, via Wikipedia, Nov. 18, 2016(The Premiers of the Australian states are the de facto heads of the executive governments in the six states of the Commonwealth of Australia. They perform the same function at the state level as the Prime Minister of Australia performs at the national level. The territory equivalents to the Premiers are the Chief Ministers of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory.)