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posted by patrickcallioni, Aug 31, 2010It is now more than a week since the election and negotiations proceed to determine who will form the next government; noting that we already have a government, albeit in caretaker mode.
Incumbency could become very significant in this complicated post-electoral game of musical chairs, as Jack Waterford explained in The Canberra Times recently. Waterford's point was that if Julia Gillard were to go to Government House now and sought a fresh appointment as PM, she would get it, on the grounds that until a no-confidence vote in the House of Representatives went against her, she is entitled to assume that she the confidence of the House.
A no-confidence motion would require either 75 votes to be successful, because the Speaker does not vote, by tradition, unless there is a tied vote – though interestingly in the ACT the Green Speaker of the Legislative Assembly has been known to temporarily give up his post as Speaker so that he can cast a partisan vote.
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TheMHS twentieth annual mental health services conference will be held at the Sydney Convention Centre Darling Harbour 14-17 September 2010. This year's program has a focus on transcultural service delivery. 
Mr Jonathon Coppel, Economic Counsellor to the Secretary-General Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will deliver the keynote closing address at the National Economic Review 2010: Australia's Annual Growth Summit. This Summit is the first in an annual series to be convened by Global Access Partners and will be held at NSW Parliament House, September 17. 
