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    Lower house mps chosen directly by ballot
    Upper house senators are chosen by percentages and allocated accordingly in each state. In this case a vacancy was left in NSW so Labor machine in NSW appoints who they please but Julia gets to appoint her ministers (so theory goes).
 
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