He started off as an academic in political science, and wrote his dissertation on Western parliaments.

Radisich was the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Western Australian parliament.

She became the second-youngest person, and the youngest woman, to be elected to the Western Australian parliament.

In subsequent attempts to reconvene the Western parliament, similar disturbances broke out.

He is still in the Western Australian parliament.

In addition to that, a general shura wields legislative powers, equivalent to a modern day Western parliament.

In that respect, it is more similar to a national political convention in the United States than to a Western parliament.

Despite external similarities with Western parliaments, the Congress is most distinct.