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The Mornington Peninsula is a peninsula located south - east of Melbourne , Australia . It is surrounded by Port Phillip to the west , Western Port to the east and Bass Strait to the south , and is connected to the mainland in the north . Geographically , the peninsula begins its protrusion from the mainland in the area between Pearcedale and Frankston . The area was originally home to the " Mayone - bulluk " and " Boonwurrung - Balluk " clans and formed part of the Boonwurrung nation ' s territory ___MASK99___ to European settlement . Edward William `` Ted '' Peters ( 12 June 1897 -- 22 June 1980 ) was an Australian ___MASK84___ . Born in Melbourne , he attended Catholic schools before becoming a clerk with the Victorian Public Service . He was president of the Victorian branch of the Clerks ' Union and in 1934 was President of the Victorian Labor Party . In 1949 , he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for the new seat of Burke . He held the seat until 1955 , when it was abolished ; Peters contested the new seat of Scullin and was successful , defeating member for Hoddle Jack Cremean , whose seat had also been abolished , running for the Australian Labor Party ( Anti - Communist ) . He held the seat until 1969 , when it was abolished , and Peters retired . He died in 1980 . The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia ; the upper house being the Victorian ___MASK98___ . Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street , Melbourne . The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two houses ( chambers ) of the Parliament of Australia . It is referred to as the lower house , with the ___MASK30___ being referred to as the upper house . The term of members of the House of Representatives is a maximum of three years from the date of the first sitting of the House , but on only one occasion since Federation has the maximum term been reached . The House is almost always dissolved earlier , usually alone but sometimes in a double dissolution of both Houses . A member of the House may be referred to as a " Member of Parliament " (" MP " or " Member "), while a member of the ___MASK30___ is usually referred to as a " Senator ". An upper house , sometimes called a ___MASK30___ , is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature ( or one of three chambers of a tricameral legislature ), the other chamber being the lower house . The house formally designated as the upper house is usually smaller , and often has more restricted power , than the lower house . Examples of upper houses in countries include the UK ' s House of Lords , Canada ' s ___MASK30___ , India ' s Rajya Sabha , Russia ' s Federation Council , Ireland ' s Seanad , Germany ' s Bundesrat and the United States ___MASK30___ . John Lawrence " Jack " Cremean ( 26 January 1907  11 August 1982 ) was an Australian ___MASK84___ . Born in Melbourne , he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a clerk . He was secretary to federal Labor minister Arthur Calwell from 1942  45 , secretary of the Fire Brigades Employees Union 1945 - 48 , and also sat on Richmond City Council . In 1945 , Cremean ' s brother Bert Cremean died after surgery , and Jack was elected as a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Clifton Hill in the resulting by - election , where he remained until 1949 . In that year , he transferred to federal politics , winning the new seat of Hoddle in the Australian House of Representatives . In 1955 , Cremean was one of seven MPs who left the ALP and formed the Australian Labor Party ( Anti - Communist ), the precursor to the Democratic Labor Party . Cremean ' s seat of Hoddle was abolished for the 1955 election , so he contested its successor , Scullin , as an Anti - Communist , but was defeated by the Labor candidate , Ted Peters , the member for Burke . Cremean died in 1982 . Arthur Augustus Calwell KCSG ( 28 August 1896  8 July 1973 ) was an Australian ___MASK84___ . He was a ___MASK15___ for 32 years from 1940 to 1972 , Immigration Minister in the government of Ben Chifley from 1945 to 1949 and Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1960 to 1967 . Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria , and the second - most populous city in Australia . The name " Melbourne " refers to an urban agglomeration spanning which comprises the broader metropolitan area , as well as being the common name for its city centre . The metropolis is located on the large natural bay of Port Phillip and expands into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon mountain ranges , Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley . Melbourne consists of 31 municipalities . It has a population of ___MASK5___ , 529 , 500 , and its inhabitants are called Melburnians . The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia , variously referred to as the Australian Parliament , the Commonwealth Parliament or the Federal Parliament , is the legislative branch of the government of Australia . It consists of three elements : the Queen of Australia , the ___MASK30___ and the House of Representatives . The Queen is represented by the ___MASK21___ - General . The combination of two elected houses , in which the members of the ___MASK30___ represent the six States and the two self - governing Territories while the members of the House represent electoral divisions according to population , is modelled on the United States Congress . Through both houses , however , there is a fused executive , drawn from the Westminster System . A double dissolution is a procedure permitted under the Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks in the bicameral Parliament of Australia between the House of Representatives ( lower house ) and the ___MASK30___ ( upper house ). A double dissolution is the only circumstance in which the entire ___MASK30___ can be dissolved .