Pauline Lee Hanson is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of One Nation,a right-wing populist political party. Hanson has represented Queensland in the Australian Senate since the 2016 Federal Election.
Although Australia is considered to have,in general,both freedom of speech and a free and independent media,certain subject-matter is subject to various forms of government censorship. These include matters of national security,judicial non-publication or suppression orders,defamation law,the federal Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth),film and literature classification,and advertising restrictions.
Julie Isabel Bishop is an Australian former politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2018 and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2007 to 2018. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Curtin from 1998 to 2019. She has been the chancellor of the Australian National University since January 2020.
Robert Bruce McClelland is an Australian judge and former politician who has served on the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia since 2015,including as Deputy Chief Justice of that court since 2018. He was previously Attorney-General of Australia from 2007 to 2011,and a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2013,representing the Labor Party.
Eric Abetz is a German-born Australian former politician who was a Senator for Tasmania from 1994 to 2022,representing the Liberal Party. He was the Minister for Employment and the Leader of the Government in the Senate in the Abbott government from 2013 to 2015. He previously also served as Special Minister of State in the Howard government from 2001 to 2006 and as Minister for Fisheries,Forestry and Conservation from 2006 to 2007.
The Racial Discrimination Act 1975(Cth) is an Act of the Australian Parliament,which was enacted on 11 June 1975 and passed by the Whitlam government. The Act makes racial discrimination in certain contexts unlawful in Australia,and also overrides state and territory legislation to the extent of any inconsistency.
The Solicitor-General of Australia is the country's second highest-ranking law officer,after the Attorney-General for Australia. The position is often known as the Commonwealth Solicitor-General in order to distinguish it from the state solicitors-general. The current officeholder is Stephen Donaghue,who took office on 16 January 2017 following the resignation of Justin Gleeson.
Brett John Mason is an Australian former politician and diplomat. He was a Liberal/Liberal National of Queensland member of the Australian Senate from 1 July 1999 to 15 April 2015,representing the state of Queensland. Mason was the Australian Ambassador to the Netherlands from September 2015 to August 2018.
Gillian Doreen Triggs is an Australian academic specialising in public international law. In 2019,she was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. In this capacity,she will serve as the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection in the team of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.
Michaelia Clare Cash is an Australian politician who served as the 38th Attorney-General of Australia from 2021 to 2022 in the Morrison government. She has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2008 and is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Major General Andrew James Molan,was an Australian politician and a senior officer in the Australian Army. He was a senator for New South Wales from December 2017 to June 2019 and from November 2019 until his death in January 2023,representing the Liberal Party.
Charles Christian Porter is an Australian former politician and lawyer who served as the 37th Attorney-General of Australia from 2017 to 2021 in the Turnbull government and the subsequent Morrison government. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Division of Pearce from 2013 to 2022 and a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. Porter also served as Leader of the House and Minister for Industrial Relations from 2019 to 2021,and Minister for Industry,Science and Technology in 2021 following his resignation as attorney-general.
Patrick Anthony Keane is the 11th non-permanent international judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal since 15 March 2023,after his retirement as a Justice of the High Court of Australia. He is currently the Chair of the Expert Advisory Group set up by the Australian Government to guide reforms to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He is a former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
Craig Arthur Samuel Laundy is a former Australian Liberal Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Reid from 2013 until his retirement in 2019. He served as Minister for Small and Family Business,the Workplace and Deregulation in the Second Turnbull Ministry,before resigning in August 2018 following the ousting of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister. On 15 March 2019,Laundy announced he would retire from politics at the 2019 federal election.
Timothy Robert Wilson is an Australian former politician and a member of the Liberal Party of Australia who served as the Federal Member for Goldstein in the Australian House of Representatives from 2016 to 2022. Wilson served as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Economics from 2018 to 2021 and as the Assistant Minister to the Minister for Industry,Energy and Emissions Reduction from 2021 to 2022. In the 2022 Australian federal election,Wilson lost his seat to independent candidate Zoe Daniel.
The Turnbull government was the federal executive government of Australia led by the 29th prime minister of Australia,Malcolm Turnbull,from 2015 to 2018. It succeeded the Abbott government,which brought the Coalition to power at the 2013 Australian federal election. The government consisted of members of Australia's Liberal-Nationals Coalition. Turnbull took office by challenging his leader,Tony Abbott,in an internal leadership ballot. Warren Truss,the leader of the Nationals,served as Deputy Prime Minister until he retired in 2016 and was replaced by Barnaby Joyce. Joyce resigned in February 2018 and the Nationals' new leader Michael McCormack became Deputy Prime Minister. The Turnbull government concluded with Turnbull's resignation ahead of internal leadership ballot which saw him succeeded as Prime Minister by Scott Morrison and the Morrison government.
The history of same-sex marriage in Australia includes its express prohibition by the Howard government in 2004 and its eventual legalisation by the Parliament in December 2017. Although a same-sex marriage law was passed by the Australian Capital Territory in 2013,it was struck down by the High Court on the basis of inconsistency with federal law. The Court's decision closed the possibility of concurrent state or territory laws that would allow same-sex marriage where federal law did not. A law legalising same-sex marriage passed the Parliament on 7 December 2017 and received royal assent the following day.
Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975,deals with offensive behaviour "because of race,colour or national or ethnic origin" in Australia. It is a section of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975,which was passed by the Australian Parliament during the term of the Whitlam government and makes racial discrimination unlawful in Australia. Section 18C was added by the Keating government in 1995. The Section has been controversial and subject to much debate.
Amanda Jane Stoker is an Australian politician who served as an Senator for Queensland from 2018 until 2022. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) and sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. She was appointed to the Senate after the retirement of George Brandis. Stoker held the ministerial portfolios of Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General,Assistant Minister for Industrial Relations and Assistant Minister for Women in the Morrison government. Stoker was unsuccessful in her re-election bid in the 2022 federal election and departed the Senate on 30 June 2022.
The Moderates,also known as Modern Liberals,Small-L Liberals or Liberal Left,are members,supporters,voters and a faction of the Australian Liberal Party who are typically fiscally conservative,but progressive on social and environmental policies. They compete with the Liberal Party's other two major factions:The National Right and the Centre Right.
