However, Australia's Parliament also has a powerful upper house, the Senate, which must pass any legislation initiated by the House of Representatives if it is to become law.

However, he also said that in 1977 United States Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher made a special trip to Sydney to meet with him and told him, on behalf of US President Jimmy Carter, of his willingness to work with whatever government Australians elected, and that the US would never again interfere with Australia's democratic processes.

However, he eventually sired a number of major stakes winners, including 1986 Horse of the Year Lady's Secret, 1988 Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Risen Star, 1990 Melbourne Cup winner Kingston Rule, which broke the course record in Australia's richest race, and the 1994, 1995 winner of the G1 Pacific Classic, Tinners Way, born in 1990 to Secretariat's last crop.

However, he played all of Australia's ten ODIs, scoring 286 runs at 28. 60 with two half-centuries.

However it is certain that their genesis lies earlier than this, as there are large gaps in Australia's fossil record and virtually no fossil record at all in geologically active New Guinea.

However, the sale of Australia's last major independent label to a multinational engendered some adverse publicity, with Gudinski controversially claiming that he had sold the label as a protest at the federal government's changes to the regulations governing the parallel importation of recordings.

However, he failed to post a significant score and was dropped for the Fifth Test, Australia's only win for the series.

However, Snow took 5 / 57 to peg back the Australians to a 36 run lead in the first innings, but couldn't stop Australia's first win in The Ashes for 13 Tests.

However, they were not a success, and in July 1977 the series was cancelled due to declining ratings at which point, with 1218 episodes, it held the record as Australia's longest running drama serial.

However, Australia's Aboriginal population had declined by around 90 % during the 19th century, largely because of the introduction of European diseases, and the remaining Aborigines were often no longer permitted to carry on their traditional land-management and hunting practices.

However, David Gerrold — who wrote " The Trouble With Tribbles "— drew his inspiration from an actual event: Australia's environmentally destructive rabbit overpopulation.

However, Australia's notoriously fickle snow conditions ensure that snowmaking using the water from the nearby Rocky Valley Dam is sometimes, particularly early in the season, the main source of skiable snow.

However, they once inhabited almost the entire Murray-Darling basin, Australia's largest river system, in very great numbers.

However, there are conservation efforts being made, such as those for Australia's orange-bellied parrot, the pink pigeon and the echo parakeet ( the latter two both of Mauritius ).

However, after a good start, Australia's performances tailed off, and the West Indies won two-one.

However, Ponting made a second ball duck in Australia's seven wicket defeat.

However, in tests such as Australia's NAPLAN, the criterion addressed by students is given detailed feedback in order for their teachers to address and compare the student's learning achievements and also to plan for the future.

However, India won the Test series 2 – 1, ending Australia's run of 16 consecutive Test match victories in the Second Test.

However, during the 1840s and 1850s, the Bunya Bunya Reserve and its vicinity became the scene of some of the most bitter skirmishes of Australia's ' Black War.

In June 2007, Greg Growden, Chief Rugby Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald said that " several high-ranking Australian Rugby Union sources told the Herald that Gregan was the " raging hot favourite " to be Australia's World Cup captain " However, when the World Cup squad was announced, Mortlock was named Captain, whilst Waugh and Gregan were named vice captains.

However, Australia's winning run came to an end with a 30-run loss in the fifth Test, with Woodfull scoring 22 and 18.

However, their tour of Australia, and Australia's subsequent return tour in the 2005 – 06 season were disappointments for Smith, as they succumbed to a 2 – 0 defeat in Australia, and a 3 – 0 whitewash at home.

However, he duly made his Test debut for Australia in December 1999 against the touring Indians, becoming Australia's 383rd Test cricketer.

However, Lee was back as Australia's leading wicket-taker in the first and third Test against New Zealand later that year, in a series which he captured 5 wickets in the second innings and made a contribution of 61 with the bat in the first Test match.

However, to vote for the senate, the voter must be at least 25 or older.

However, low membership and voter support in Germany's western states continued to plague the party on the federal level until it formed an electoral alliance in July 2005 with the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ), a leftist faction of dissident Social Democrats and trade unionists, with the merged list being called the Left Party.

However the gap between women and men voter turnout is diminishing and in some cases women are becoming more prevalent at the ballot box than their male counterparts.

However, political scientists today suggest that moving elections to a day such as Sunday might increase voter turnout, as the employed would have an easier time voting.

However, the SPD underwent a major shift in policies reflected in the differences between the Heidelberg Program of 1925, which " called for the transformation of the capitalist system of private ownership of the means of production to social ownership ", and the Godesberg Program of 1959, which aimed to broaden its voter base and move its political position toward the centre.

However, probably due to low voter turnout, the party managed to cross the required 5 % threshold in the 2004 European Parliament elections, receiving 7 % of votes and 4 out of 54 seats reserved for Poland in the European Parliament as part of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, of which it is a member.

However, the referendum stalled over disagreements on voter rights.

However, voters repealed the domestic partnership law by initiative ; a modified version was reinstated by another voter initiative, 1990's Proposition K, also written by Britt.

However, proponents often counter that voter fatigue may be lessened by direct democracy as voters will feel their vote has more effect.

However, one voter, rumoured to be from Quebec — Théodore and the Canadiens ' home province — inexplicably left Iginla off his ballot.

However, voter turnout was well under 10 %.

However, the limits of the blog's effectiveness as a campaign tool were seen in Iowa and New Hampshire, where despite a large financial, media, and organizational head start, Dean made a poor showing in voter support.

However, in the 24 countries with compulsory voting, voter turnout is often already very close to 100 %, so if the major parties are roughly balanced in popularity, swing voters can have a marked influence on the outcome.

However, veteran political organizers hate the task of handing out yard signs, because they believe that time spent on procuring and distributing yard signs could be better used on other voter registration and get out the vote operations.

However, she resigned on November 30, 2004, citing " a difference in management philosophy " with her board, following criticism of the HRC's failure to defeat voter referendums in 11 states banning same-sex marriage and, in some cases, civil unions.

However, this did not appease voter anger at Labor, and Lynn Arnold's government lost in a landslide to the Liberal Party led by Dean Brown at the 1993 state election.

However, the elections that year remained neither free nor far, with no guarantee of secret balloting, a voter registration open to abuse and the voter roll being inflated by 25 % with emigrants or deceased residents.

However, the decision was also made to enlarge upon this decision, and rule as ineligible the voter in question even if there was an explicit disagreement between the races listed on the source database and the voter list.

However, they tend to focus on regions with low populations, low voter registration, low voter turnout and high sympathy for the project's goals.

However, to cast an early vote a voter must already be registered.

However, after putting much effort into getting the legislature to put this amendment onto the ballot, the TML put little effort into winning voter approval, and the proposal was largely overlooked during the public debate over the high-profile lottery amendment.