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since this template has become more general, i suggest it be moved to template:Politics australia. clarkk 11:45, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
please don't make this into a sidebar, it just doesn't work at the bottom of the page and conflicts with the various sideboxes if it's used at the side, it works much better as a footer, i'm going to revert it back. clarkk 05:03, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
This template is now out of whack with all the others Template:Politics of the United States, Template:Politics of the United Kingdom, Template: Politics of New Zealand, Template:Politics of Canada, Template:Politics of South Africa, etc. etc. Can we either restore this one to something like what it was, or retitle it? Slac speak up! 11:16, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I am going to change it back to a sidebar. It's just too inconsistent with every other "politics of" template as a bottom-dweller, and it adds to template creep at the bottom of articles. As for appearing in every article it links to: well, we could make it a bit more austere. My suggestion is: Queen of Australia, Governor-General, Senate, House of Representatives, Constitution, Elections, Political parties in Australia, and State and Territory governments. For other uses, we can develop more specific templates. Slac speak up! 07:56, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Should the Progressive Alliance be mentioned in this template? It hasn't won a seat under its banner, and isn't expected to, which would put it on the same level as Australia First Party or Franca Arena Child Safety Alliance (NSW, not federal though). Andjam 05:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Shouldn't all federal elections be included in this footer (or a special election footer be made if it would be messy otherwise)? I know there are no pages on any of the elections between 1901 and 1993, but surely adding them to this footer would draw peoples' attentions to empty articles and they might start writing them? 129.67.53.94 18:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
This template was changed to give it the same layout as all the other politics of boxes and moved to the upper right of the articles. Compare User:Electionworld/country_templates. If the template doesn't fit well in an article, one could use template:Politics of Australia (bottom) Electionworld = Wilfried ( talk 23:35, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Might a satisfactory compromise for consistency be to use this template ( template:Politics of Australia ) on all the politics articles, but display a smaller series template at the top? This would make Australian articles look like those of other countries and alert the reader instantly to the fact that the article is part of a series without too much clutter. -- ThirdEdition 02:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
I thought it was important that the relevant election to each state also be placed in the politics template. If anyone disagrees or thinks something should be re-worded please let me know. Timeshift 12:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Here's a knock-up mock-up. The formatting might not be to people's liking, but this template links to the main federal government articles (except Government of Australia, which should be fixed) and to the top state government articles, including Parliaments of the Australian states and territories.
Executive: Monarchy - Governor-General - Prime Minister
Legislative: Parliament ( House of Representatives, Senate) - Federal electoral system - Electoral divisions
Judicial: High Court - Lower Courts - Constitution
State and Territory governments: Governors - Premiers - Parliaments
I don't see that there's a problem in finding state elections if all the state government articles have templates like this 'Government of South Australia' one, which links to the elections. If I was interested in the SA election I would click on the SA government link in 'Politics of Australia' and it would take me to this.
If Parliaments of the Australian states and territories was to be a place with all of the elections, it could have a template like this on it. This is based on the 'premiers' template on Premiers of the Australian states.
Latest elections in the States and territories of Australia | |||||||
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ACT | NSW | NT | QLD | SA | TAS | VIC | WA |
2004 | 2007 | 2005 | 2006 | 2006 | 2006 | 2006 | 2005 |
-- ThirdEdition 04:59, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Not all states have their own government of {state} template. Infact I believe only two do. How about something like this?
Executive: Monarchy - Governor-General - Prime Minister
Legislative: Parliament ( House of Representatives, Senate) - Federal electoral system - Electoral divisions
Judicial: High Court - Lower Courts - Constitution
State and Territory governments: Governors - Premiers - Parliaments
Where legislative elections is a link to a list of recent state elections? I still think the way you have planned it is cumbersome. It might be easy for you to navigate because a) you're used to wikipedia and b) you designed it, but to someone who googles something and comes to one of the politics pages and isn't familiar, I do think they could quite easily miss it - and remember not everything people take an interest in reading, they meant to read. Often, people simply stumble across something that is interesting reading that they otherwise would not have known/come across. Timeshift 05:32, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the revert by the anonymous user, I prefer the old version of the template as opposed to the new one. The old one is easier to read/understand IMHO. And btw, the coalition is not a party. Timeshift 00:18, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I've moved the template more toward the subject of politics of australia, all fed/state/territory elections are now listed, and Local government has been removed as I don't believe they are worthy of inclusion as politics and political parties etc arent really involved in local govt like they are in state/fed. Comments welcome. Timeshift 06:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
The template {{ Australian elections}} severely overlaps with this template, and having both together - as is currently the case with Australian federal election, 2004 - is redundant. The senate elections and referendums should be placed into this template, and the other template scrapped. - 52 Pickup 12:20, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Removed Democrats, as unlike the rest of the parties in the list, they do not hold federal representation as of mid-2008 when the new senate sits. Timeshift ( talk) 04:08, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Can I get a consensus for this? Both parties are statistically insignificant now. Michael talk 08:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I think we shouldn't remove the democrats. They had a huge power for a long time, and while they may not have any federal representation I still do think we should keep them because of their past. Guy0307 ( talk) 10:05, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
They've been removed. Do not re-add without consensus discussion. Timeshift ( talk) 09:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
The CLP has a single federal member. FF have a single federal member. FF is in the list. CLP is not. 118.208.165.210 ( talk) 09:29, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
If the barometer is all parties with federal representation, which are not in caucus with another party, it would be time to add DLP. (As much as I dislike that party it would be fair) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.209.68.252 ( talk) 03:59, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
I was hoping to list the most recent and next elections for each state. In addition to being helpful to the user, this makes things simpler for editors as we would not need to worry about switching between the most recent and next election as the one listed. Here's what I've come up with:
The relevant parameter is |group4, but it might be better below local government. Are there any objections to the change? - Rrius ( talk) 03:25, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, this template displays very bad on a mobile device - especially in portrait. The left most column seems to not collapse. The right columns collapse to extremes like 1 character per line. I can't see that this been discussed before. Can someone else try fixing it or else I will have a go at making it display better on a mobile device. Philiashasspots ( talk) 08:49, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Australia: Politics Template‑class | ||||||||||
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since this template has become more general, i suggest it be moved to template:Politics australia. clarkk 11:45, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
please don't make this into a sidebar, it just doesn't work at the bottom of the page and conflicts with the various sideboxes if it's used at the side, it works much better as a footer, i'm going to revert it back. clarkk 05:03, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
This template is now out of whack with all the others Template:Politics of the United States, Template:Politics of the United Kingdom, Template: Politics of New Zealand, Template:Politics of Canada, Template:Politics of South Africa, etc. etc. Can we either restore this one to something like what it was, or retitle it? Slac speak up! 11:16, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I am going to change it back to a sidebar. It's just too inconsistent with every other "politics of" template as a bottom-dweller, and it adds to template creep at the bottom of articles. As for appearing in every article it links to: well, we could make it a bit more austere. My suggestion is: Queen of Australia, Governor-General, Senate, House of Representatives, Constitution, Elections, Political parties in Australia, and State and Territory governments. For other uses, we can develop more specific templates. Slac speak up! 07:56, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Should the Progressive Alliance be mentioned in this template? It hasn't won a seat under its banner, and isn't expected to, which would put it on the same level as Australia First Party or Franca Arena Child Safety Alliance (NSW, not federal though). Andjam 05:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Shouldn't all federal elections be included in this footer (or a special election footer be made if it would be messy otherwise)? I know there are no pages on any of the elections between 1901 and 1993, but surely adding them to this footer would draw peoples' attentions to empty articles and they might start writing them? 129.67.53.94 18:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
This template was changed to give it the same layout as all the other politics of boxes and moved to the upper right of the articles. Compare User:Electionworld/country_templates. If the template doesn't fit well in an article, one could use template:Politics of Australia (bottom) Electionworld = Wilfried ( talk 23:35, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Might a satisfactory compromise for consistency be to use this template ( template:Politics of Australia ) on all the politics articles, but display a smaller series template at the top? This would make Australian articles look like those of other countries and alert the reader instantly to the fact that the article is part of a series without too much clutter. -- ThirdEdition 02:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
I thought it was important that the relevant election to each state also be placed in the politics template. If anyone disagrees or thinks something should be re-worded please let me know. Timeshift 12:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Here's a knock-up mock-up. The formatting might not be to people's liking, but this template links to the main federal government articles (except Government of Australia, which should be fixed) and to the top state government articles, including Parliaments of the Australian states and territories.
Executive: Monarchy - Governor-General - Prime Minister
Legislative: Parliament ( House of Representatives, Senate) - Federal electoral system - Electoral divisions
Judicial: High Court - Lower Courts - Constitution
State and Territory governments: Governors - Premiers - Parliaments
I don't see that there's a problem in finding state elections if all the state government articles have templates like this 'Government of South Australia' one, which links to the elections. If I was interested in the SA election I would click on the SA government link in 'Politics of Australia' and it would take me to this.
If Parliaments of the Australian states and territories was to be a place with all of the elections, it could have a template like this on it. This is based on the 'premiers' template on Premiers of the Australian states.
Latest elections in the States and territories of Australia | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ACT | NSW | NT | QLD | SA | TAS | VIC | WA |
2004 | 2007 | 2005 | 2006 | 2006 | 2006 | 2006 | 2005 |
-- ThirdEdition 04:59, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Not all states have their own government of {state} template. Infact I believe only two do. How about something like this?
Executive: Monarchy - Governor-General - Prime Minister
Legislative: Parliament ( House of Representatives, Senate) - Federal electoral system - Electoral divisions
Judicial: High Court - Lower Courts - Constitution
State and Territory governments: Governors - Premiers - Parliaments
Where legislative elections is a link to a list of recent state elections? I still think the way you have planned it is cumbersome. It might be easy for you to navigate because a) you're used to wikipedia and b) you designed it, but to someone who googles something and comes to one of the politics pages and isn't familiar, I do think they could quite easily miss it - and remember not everything people take an interest in reading, they meant to read. Often, people simply stumble across something that is interesting reading that they otherwise would not have known/come across. Timeshift 05:32, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the revert by the anonymous user, I prefer the old version of the template as opposed to the new one. The old one is easier to read/understand IMHO. And btw, the coalition is not a party. Timeshift 00:18, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I've moved the template more toward the subject of politics of australia, all fed/state/territory elections are now listed, and Local government has been removed as I don't believe they are worthy of inclusion as politics and political parties etc arent really involved in local govt like they are in state/fed. Comments welcome. Timeshift 06:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
The template {{ Australian elections}} severely overlaps with this template, and having both together - as is currently the case with Australian federal election, 2004 - is redundant. The senate elections and referendums should be placed into this template, and the other template scrapped. - 52 Pickup 12:20, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Removed Democrats, as unlike the rest of the parties in the list, they do not hold federal representation as of mid-2008 when the new senate sits. Timeshift ( talk) 04:08, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Can I get a consensus for this? Both parties are statistically insignificant now. Michael talk 08:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I think we shouldn't remove the democrats. They had a huge power for a long time, and while they may not have any federal representation I still do think we should keep them because of their past. Guy0307 ( talk) 10:05, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
They've been removed. Do not re-add without consensus discussion. Timeshift ( talk) 09:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
The CLP has a single federal member. FF have a single federal member. FF is in the list. CLP is not. 118.208.165.210 ( talk) 09:29, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
If the barometer is all parties with federal representation, which are not in caucus with another party, it would be time to add DLP. (As much as I dislike that party it would be fair) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.209.68.252 ( talk) 03:59, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
I was hoping to list the most recent and next elections for each state. In addition to being helpful to the user, this makes things simpler for editors as we would not need to worry about switching between the most recent and next election as the one listed. Here's what I've come up with:
The relevant parameter is |group4, but it might be better below local government. Are there any objections to the change? - Rrius ( talk) 03:25, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, this template displays very bad on a mobile device - especially in portrait. The left most column seems to not collapse. The right columns collapse to extremes like 1 character per line. I can't see that this been discussed before. Can someone else try fixing it or else I will have a go at making it display better on a mobile device. Philiashasspots ( talk) 08:49, 22 January 2013 (UTC)