The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

However, they remained sitting on the government benches supporting it in Parliament, though in the country local Liberal activists bitterly opposed the government.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

In January 1606, during the first sitting of Parliament since the plot, the Observance of 5th November Act 1605 was passed, making services and sermons commemorating the event an annual feature of English life ; the act remained in force until 1859.

Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.

The first number appeared on 20 November 1797, with a notice that " the publication would be continued every Monday during the sitting of Parliament ".

* 1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.

Should a sitting or former prime minister die, he or she is accorded a state funeral, wherein their casket lies in state in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill.

Some remained in politics: Mackenzie Bowell continued to serve as a senator ; R. B. Bennett moved to the United Kingdom after being elevated to the House of Lords ; and a number led Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier ( Mackenzie King twice ); Alexander Mackenzie and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths ; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post ; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private business.

* List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies represented by sitting Prime Ministers

The Premier has an office in the Executive Annexe of Parliament House, Brisbane, which is normally used while Parliament is sitting.

* November 4 – December 17 – First sitting of the English Reformation Parliament.

** The Bad Parliament begins sitting in England.

Although Ms. May was the first elected Member of Parliament, the first seat was gained in the Canadian House of Commons on August 30, 2008 when sitting Independent MP Blair Wilson joined the party.

The Father of the House is not necessarily the sitting MP with the earliest date of first election: Sir Peter Tapsell was first elected in 1959, and is the only remaining 1950s MP, but lost his seat in 1964 and was out of Parliament until 1966 ; this meant that Alan Williams was Father of the House until his retirement at the 2010 general election by virtue of his continuous service since the 1964 general election.

Although he was not a Peer in the English Parliament, it is nonetheless recorded that he was " by writ called into the Upper House by His Majesty ’ s great grace ", and he then took up the honoured position of an " assistant sitting on the inside of the Woolsack.

Medibank commenced on 1 July 1975 after the passing of the Medibank legislation by a joint sitting of Parliament on 6 and 7 August 1974.

Though the election had been held in May, Parliament did not resume sitting until October, one of the longest break periods in Confederation.

The Canadian House of Commons, where Sauvé served as a Member of Parliament # Canada | Member of Parliament and later Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons | Speaker of the house, sitting in the chair at the far centre

Calais was regarded for many years as being an integral part of Kingdom of England, with its representatives sitting in the English Parliament.

Inderwick later writing " I confess to a feeling of pain at finding in October 1660, sitting as a judge at the Old Bailey, trying and condemning to death batches of the regicides, men under whose orders he had himself acted, who had been his colleagues in Parliament, with whom he had sat on committees to alter the law ".

Coke was briefly restrained from acting in Parliament by Charles ; he was made High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire by the King in 1625, which prohibited him from sitting in Parliament until his term expired a year later.

They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.

He walked straight up to the man sitting on the ground and bent over to look at him.

She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.

In China it was a baby sitting on a railroad platform, smudged, blood-specked, with the village burning about him and shells exploding.

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

He had considered throwing erasers or flipping paperwads at someone or pulling the hair of the girl sitting in front of him, but he couldn't take a chance on either of these possibilities: the teacher probably would make him stand face-to-wall in a corner instead of stay in after school.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

Some are fishing, some driving the team, and many are sitting indolently on the banks of the river.

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

He was sitting on top of a log which was spinning round and around in the water.

A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.

Sitting on her terrace, sitting in her parlor, sitting anywhere, she ground an axe of self-esteem.

Howard, who had been sitting against the wall, said he needed more fresh air, and took the spot on the edge of the porch where Bobby Joe had been sitting.

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

And when they had drawn back a step he added: `` Jones is sitting on his horse right in front of her.

`` Yeah, passed your road block as I drove in '', I said, sitting on his polished desk.

She puffed on the cigarette slowly, sitting slumped against the back seat ; ;

Within a week after the injury, suffered in St. Louis's victory in the final game of the Kentucky tournament, Nordmann was sitting on the Bill's bench doing what he could to help Benington.

Palmer was now putting merely for a tie, and Player, who was sitting beside his wife and watching it all on television in Tournament Chairman Clifford Roberts' clubhouse apartment, stared in amazement when Palmer missed the putt.

Only too often, however, you have the feeling that you are sitting in a room with some of the instruments lined up on one wall to your left and others facing them on the wall to your right.