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Intro -- Australia: Monarchy, Nature and Beyond -- About the Author -- Copyright Information © -- Introduction -- Our Monarchy System -- Understanding How and Why Our Monarchy System Works -- The Credentials of the Monarchy -- The Mystique of Our System-Ownership -- Reserve Rights - Empowering the People -- A Brief History -- Conventions - The People's Emotional Capital -- Evolution Change but Not as We Know It -- Head of State -- Who Should Be Our Governor-General? -- Importing a Monarch for Australia -- Succession -- Paul Keating Guilty by Association -- Hereditary Conditioning -- Politicians -- Religion -- An Abstract Ideology -- Comment and Summary -- Appointing Our Governor-General -- An Independent Speaker for Parliament -- Suggestion -- Appointing Judges -- The Dismissal -- The Party System Is the Party Over? -- Final Summary and Comment.

Describes the Oct 2000 parliamentary elections in Lithuania, focusing on the electoral system, party system, campaign, & election results. 1 Table.

THE EUROPEAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN BELGIUM WAS LOW KEY AND ALMOST DULL. A RECORD NUMBER OF 29 LISTS CONTESTED THE ELECTION. THE CAMPAIGN WAS AFFECTED, NOT TO SAY DOMINATED, BY NATIONAL ISSUES. PARTIES WERE ACUTELY AWARE OF THE APPROACHING NATIONAL POLITICAL BATTLE, ALTHOUGH THE ELECTION WAS DISAPPOINTING FOR THE MAIN OPPOSITION PARTIES, THE LIBERALS AND THE GREENS. THE TRADITIONAL PARTIES ARE ON THE DEFENSIVE AND NEED TO ASK SOME HARD QUESTIONS BOTH ABOUT EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL POLITICAL ISSUES.