The House

New Zealand's House of Representatives 1854-2004

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Selected links

New Zealand history

http://www.elections.org.nz/history.html - history of the vote.

/Gallery/parlt/index.html - Parliament Buildings.

/Gallery/Suffragists/index.html - women and the vote.

http://www.dnzb.govt.nz - online version of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, including image and sound files.

New Zealand Parliament

http://www.parliament.govt.nz - Parliament's central site, contains links to other parliamentary sites.

http://www.ps.parliament.govt.nz - Parliamentary Service.

http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz - Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

http://www.speaker.parliament.govt.nz - Speaker's Office.

http://www.legislation.govt.nz - unofficial versions of New Zealand statutes.

Australian federal and state Parliaments

http://www.peo.gov.au/resources/index_res_l.htm - Parliamentary Education Office.

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au - NSW State Parliament, inlcudes basic history ('Past and Present') focused more on representation and political developments.

http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/history/ - basic history of Queensland State Parliament.

http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/history/hispho.htm - Tasmanian State Parliament history.

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au - detailed material focused on representation and lists for Victorian State Parliament (under 'Our Democratic History').

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/history.html - brief history of Parliament buildings, Victoria, includes virtual tour.

Canadian provincial Parliaments

http://www.legis.gov.bc.ca - links to complicated interactive web version of CD ROM, 'Discover your legislature', with extensive panoramas of British Columbian Parliament and detailed historical sections focused on constitution, representation and buildings.

http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/visite/ - virtual tour of Quebec's National Assembly, including historical descriptions and sound.

http://www.assembly.ab.ca/visitor/Tour/index.htm - text and photographic tour of Alberta's legislature buildings through photographs, with historical context.

http://www.legrehab.gov.sk.ca - includes presentation of 'rehabilitation' of Saskatchewan's Legislative Building with visual material and historical background.

UK Parliament

http://www.explore.parliament.uk - 'Explore Parliament', a children's guide to Parliament with teaching resources.

http://www.parliament.uk - includes fact sheets on House of Commons, general series on historical topics (under 'Parliamentary Publications').

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/churchlj/westminster - history of the Palace of Westminster.

Other parliamentary resources

ww.ipu.org/english/parlweb.htm - International Parliamentary Union site provides links to all national parliaments, includes http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm and http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/history.htm - brief IPU statistics on women in parliaments in 20th century.

http://www.cpahq.org/directory/default.aspx - directory provided by Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.

http://www.althingi.is/ekysag/ - brief account of Iceland's historic Althingi assembly from c. 1000 A.D.