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Of all the people in parliament in the world, 13 percent are women.
But not just that; also democracy, parliament, the idea of representation, the idea of equal citizenship.
Over 17 days at the Olympics, 7,000 visitors from all over the world actually got to individually control the light from the CN Tower, parliament and Niagara in real time with their minds from across the country, 3,000 km away.
And the idea is actually very simple: we randomly select people and put them in parliament.
Let's think about that for a few more minutes, shall we? Imagine we chose you and you and you and you and you down there and a bunch of other random people, and we put you in our parliament for the next couple of years.
However, there would be one major side effect: if we replaced elections with sortition and made our parliament truly representative of society, it would mean the end of politicians.
And now we have an answer: with a parliament that uses sortition.
And in the current Iran, Zoroastrians and Christians have guaranteed places in the Iranian parliament, something to be very, very proud of.
And earlier this year, he got a request from the Green Party in Australia who used it in their campaign where it became part of the debate that resulted in the Australian parliament adopting the most rigorous carbon tax regime of any country in the world.
Three hundred thirty-three members of parliament.
You need Wembley Stadium to host our parliament.
The country was divided again, so much that our parliament resigned, we had no president for a year, and no prime minister.
We can create a global parliament of mayors.
Mayors are considering that idea of how you can actually constitute a global parliament of mayors, and I love that idea, because a parliament of mayors is a parliament of citizens and a parliament of citizens is a parliament of us, of you and of me.
So, in fact, our proclamation is going to parliament next month.
The last parliament of our century opened with our president announcing to the country that this was the most important economic initiative for the country today.
So the first one is made by a member of parliament, the second one is made by a spiritual leader, and the third one was actually the defendants' lawyer when the girl was fighting for her life and she passed away.
There’d be a pompous paper parliament who remained out of touch, and who ignored the people's protests about all the paper cuts, then the peaceful paper protests would get blown to paper pieces, by the confetti cannons manned by pre-emptive police.
We have delivered live pigs to Kenya's parliament as a symbol of our politicians' greed.
This was a day of reckoning in the Australian government, the Australian parliament, and for the Australian people.
It was extraordinary for me to then be able to embrace and to kiss Aboriginal elders as they came into the parliament building, and one woman said to me, it's the first time a white fella had ever kissed her in her life, and she was over 70.
My parents were both elected to the first parliament, alongside Nelson and Winnie Mandela.
Files appeared on the network, including classified documents leaked from the parliamentary investigation commission, which highlights that the free exchange and discussion of vital information is starting to become difficult, even for members of a parliament.
They have had to move, and every parliament session, I'm getting complaints from different communities asking for assistance to build seawalls, to see what we can do about the freshwater lens because it's being destroyed, and so in my trips to the different islands, I'm seeing evidence of communities which are now having to cope with the loss of food crops, the contamination of the water lenses, and I see these communities perhaps leaving, having to relocate, within five to 10 years.
Words like council, marriage, sovereign, govern, damage, and parliament.
We support Zimbabwean women who are marching to parliament.
In 2007, I ran for a seat in the Danish parliament as one of the first women with a minority background.
Those emails would begin with something like this: "What's a raghead like you doing in our parliament?"
Then one day, one of my colleagues in the parliament said that I should save the hate mails.
Did you also know that after apartheid, when the new government went into the parliament houses, there were no female toilets in the building?
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