Clare Majella Martin is a former Australian journalist and politician. She was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in a shock by-election win in 1995. She was appointed Opposition Leader in 1999,and won a surprise victory at the 2001 territory election,becoming the first Labor Party (ALP) and first female Chief Minister of the Northern Territory. At the 2005 election,she led Territory Labor to the second-largest majority government in the history of the Territory,before resigning as Chief Minister on 26 November 2007.
The 2004 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 9 October 2004. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and coalition partner the National Party of Australia led by John Anderson defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Mark Latham.
Jennifer Louise Macklin is an Australian former politician. She was elected to federal parliament at the 1996 federal election and served as the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2001 to 2006,under opposition leaders Simon Crean,Mark Latham and Kim Beazley. After the ALP won government at the 2007 election,she held ministerial office under Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard,serving as Minister for Families,Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (2007–2013) and Minister for Disability Reform (2011–2013). She retired from parliament at the 2019 election.
The Family First Party was a conservative political party in Australia which existed from 2002 to 2017. It was founded in South Australia where it enjoyed its greatest electoral support. Since the demise of the Australian Conservatives into which it merged,it has been refounded in that state as the Family First Party (2021),where it contested the state election in 2022,but failed to win a seat.
Marion Rose Scrymgour is an Australian politician and the current member of parliament (MP) for the federal seat of Lingiari. She was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2012,representing the electorate of Arafura. She was the Labor Party Deputy Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from November 2007 until February 2009,and was the highest-ranked Indigenous Australian woman in government in Australia's history,as well as the first Indigenous deputy leader of an Australian government. She was also the first Indigenous woman to be elected to the Northern Territory legislature.
Linda Jean Burney is an Australian politician,a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the member of Parliament (MP) for the division of Barton since 2016. She was the minister for Indigenous Australians from 2022 to July 2024. She was formerly a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Canterbury from 2003 to 2016 and previously a teacher. Burney is the first known woman to identify as Aboriginal to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives.
Nyunggai Warren Stephen Mundine is an Australian businessman,political strategist,advocate for Indigenous affairs,and former politician. Starting his political career in 1995,Mundine became the first Indigenous person to serve on the City Council of Dubbo in New South Wales. He was the national president of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2006 to 2007 but quit the party in 2012. In 2013,Mundine was appointed chairman of the Coalition government's Indigenous Advisory Council by then-prime minister,Tony Abbott. Mundine was the Liberal Party's unsuccessful candidate for the marginal seat of Gilmore on the south coast of New South Wales in the 2019 Australian federal election.
Diane Robin Bell is an Australian anthropologist,author,and social justice advocate. Her work focuses on the Aboriginal people of Australia,Indigenous land rights,human rights,Indigenous religions,violence against women,and on environmental issues.
Wangkatha,otherwise written Wongatha,Wongutha,Wangkatja,Wongi or Wangai,is a language and the identity of eight Aboriginal Australian peoples of the Eastern Goldfields region. The Wangkatja language groups cover the following towns:Coolgardie,Kalgoorlie,Menzies,Leonora and Laverton;these towns encompass the North-eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia.
Thomas Gregory Stephens is a former Australian parliamentarian.
Mia Handshin is an Adelaide-based political activist and a former columnist for The Advertiser newspaper in South Australia,contributing a weekly column to the opinion section from 1997 to 2007. She is an associate director of the consulting firm Government Relations Australia,and was an adviser in the Adelaide office of federal sports minister Kate Ellis. She was the unsuccessful Australian Labor Party candidate for the 2007 federal election in the electorate of Sturt. Handshin is a Program Manager for the Leaders Institute of South Australia and the Presiding Member of the board of the Environment Protection Authority from 25 October 2012,with her appointment expired on 24 October 2015.
Malarndirri Barbara Anne McCarthy is an Indigenous Australian politician and former journalist who has been a Senator for the Northern Territory since 2016. She is the Minister for Indigenous Australians in the Albanese Government since 29 July 2024. She previously served in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.
Joanna Maria Lindgren is an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from May 2015 to July 2016.
Eileen Cummings is a teacher,policy and liaison officer and Indigenous leader in the Northern Territory of Australia. She is a member of the Rembarrnga Ngalakan ethnic groups. She is also a member of the 'Stolen Generation' and is an activist advocating for the well-being of living members of that group.
Phyllis Evelyn Duguid,née Lade,was an Australian teacher and Aboriginal rights and women's activist,who was highly regarded for her long-term commitment to those she saw as members of an underclass in society. She was married to,and often worked alongside,Charles Duguid,medical practitioner and Aboriginal rights campaigner,the couple leading much of the work on improving the lives of Aboriginal people in South Australia in the mid-twentieth century. She founded the League for the Protection and Advancement of Aboriginal and Half-Caste Women,which later became the Aborigines' Advancement League of South Australia (AALSA).
The Royal Commission into Violence,Abuse,Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability is a royal commission established on 4 April 2019 by the Australian government pursuant to the Royal Commissions Act 1902. The Honourable Ronald Sackville,who serves as Chair of the Royal Commission,The Honourable Roslyn Atkinson,Ms Barbara Bennett,Dr Rhonda Galbally,Ms Andrea Mason,Mr Alastair McEwin,and The Honourable John Ryan currently serve as Royal Commissioners.
Barbara Ann Pocock AM is an Australian politician and economist. She is a member of the Australian Greens and has been a Senator for South Australia since 2022. She is an emeritus professor of the University of South Australia and was previously deputy chair of The Australia Institute from 2004 to 2022.
Jennifer Leslie Ware is an Australian politician and a member of the Liberal Party. She was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2022 election to the New South Wales seat of Hughes.
Kerrynne Liddle is an Australian politician and the first Indigenous federal member of parliament from South Australia. She is an Arrernte woman and member of the Liberal Party. She was elected to the Senate on the party's ticket in South Australia at the 2022 federal election,to a term beginning on 1 July 2022. She was a journalist and corporate manager before entering politics.
