​​​Minority Governments in Australia - Texts of Accords, Charters and Agreements

This Issues Backgrounder is a companion document to Minority Governments in Australia 1989-2009: Accords, Charters and Agreements, Background Paper No 1/2010 by Gareth Griffith.

Its purpose is to offer access to the texts of the relevant agreements upon which minority governments in Australia have been formed. It is also planned to update this Issues Backgrounder, by adding any future documents of this kind.

The co-operation of all other Parliamentary Libraries is acknowledged and will, it is hoped, continue into the future as new minority governments are formed in any of the Australian jurisdictions. The plan therefore is for this document to operate as a permanent electronic repository for relevant accords, charters and agreements.

The documents are presented in chronological order.

Tasmanian Greens/ALP Accord 1989	NSW Charter of Reform 1991	NSW Memorandum of Understanding between non-aligned Independents and Greiner, 1991
Liz Cunningham speech, Queensland 1996	Wellington-Beattie agreement, Queensland 1998	Moore-Carnell agreement, ACT 1998
Victorian Independents’ Charter, 1999	Jeff Kennett’s response to Independents’ Charter, 1999	Peter Lewis compact for good government, SA 2002
Rory McEwen agreement with Rann, SA 2002	Karlene Maywald agreement with Rann, SA 2004	Brendon Grylls (Nationals) agreement with Barnett, WA 2008
Labor’s proposed agreement with Grylls, WA 2008	Greens/Labor Parliamentary Agreement, ACT 2008	Gerry Wood Parliamentary Agreement with Paul Henderson, NT 2009
Labor/Greens Agreements Tasmania 2010	Gillard Government 2010	Geoff Brock Parliamentary Agreement with Jay Weatherill, SA 2014 18 SA 2014.pdf
Martin Hamilton-Smith Parliamentary Agreement with Jay Weatherill, SA 2014 19 SA 2014.pdf		​

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