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His dominant participation in politics before 1801 was in representative institutions.

The Continental Congress, the Virginia House of Delegates, the Lower House of Virginia Assembly, the, you know, the Federal Congress from 1789 to 1797, I'm going to do the arithmetic, back into the Virginia Assembly.

Then he becomes Secretary of State in 1801 and, you know, in his respective shifts.

So, you know, I've been friends with Jim Fishkin.

Uh, you see it in John Adams' thoughts on government.

You see it, uh, reflected in other places, including the Constitution of Pennsylvania.

A rep- a, a representative assembly, typically meaning the lower house, should be a mirror, a miniature, a portrait, or a transcript- of the larger society.

And for years, I wondered where this came from.

All right.

Now, you very famously were elected to the Parliament in the Lower House, a member for Higgins.

That seat was redistributed and now you've been re-elected, this time as a Senator.

So that was amazing and congratulations.

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in the lower house.

And you know what? I reckon you could do that with $2 million.

If you went 20, you would, you would, you would own the lower house and upper house.

Dickson is also filmed at strip clubs.

Do I walk up and put a few dollars in the, um, uh-

His appointment was heralded as a turning point for the professionalization of the party, and he was recently appointed to the national executive.

But Guardian Australia can now reveal that his tenure is not going smoothly.

Another one was that the Parliament passed to decriminalise the offence of begging.

Another one was that they've done some reform on whether or not businesses can vote in the City of Melbourne in local council elections or whether or not they can be on the roll to vote So those are three, you know, pretty interesting changes that all happened in the Upper House and, you know, didn't come from the Lower House, but people say, you know, like to pretend a lot of work gets

done.

And, Kieran, do you think post the state election, it's going to be even more difficult for whoever is in the government to pass legislation through the Upper House because it's likely that there won't be as many crossbenchers? that have done a fantastic job, I have to say, in how they've reviewed legislation and brought about amendments.

It's the second time in two years that MPs have voted on the issue.

The Lower House of Parliament, the Commons, voted in favor of assisted dying last year.

But after the Upper House blocked it, concerns have grown that safeguards may not be robust enough.

When the result of this latest vote was announced, our medical editor, Fergus Walsh, was outside the Parliament building, where supporters and opponents of the bill had gathered.

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Let me bring Andrew Hastie in, the Shadow Minister for Sovereign Capability, also the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the Lower House.

He joins me now from Parliament House in Canberra.

Andrew, good morning to you.

Appreciate it.

Thank you, Mark.

That's Andrew Hastie, the shadow minister for sovereign capability, the deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the lower house.

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