In the 2013 Australian federal election, the Liberal Party of Australia won enough seats in the House of Representatives to assume government. But in the Senate it was a different story. Of the 76 seats, the Coalition (of Liberal and National) only had 33 seats. They needed a vote of the crossbench
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