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.
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 2016 Federal Election.
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.
Malcolm Thomas Brough is a former Australian politician. He represented the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives and held ministerial office in the Howard and Turnbull Governments.
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 MP for 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. She was also the first Indigenous woman to be elected to the Northern Territory Parliament.
Linda Jean Burney is an Australian politician and is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives,representing Barton since the 2016 federal election. She is Minister for Indigenous Australians in the Albanese ministry,and the first woman who identifies as Aboriginal to serve in that position.
Dignity Party previously known as Dignity for Disability or Dignity 4 Disability or D4D is a political party in the Australian state of South Australia. The party had one parliamentary member,Kelly Vincent,elected at the 2010 state election to the eleventh and last seat for an eight-year term in the 22-member Legislative Council in the Parliament of South Australia. She was not re-elected in the 2018 state election. In 2016,the name of the political party was changed to the Dignity Party to better represent equality in all forms including race,gender,age and sexual orientation.
Nyunggai Warren Stephen Mundine is an Australian Aboriginal leader and politician. He was the National President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),but quit the party in 2012. Mundine was appointed chairman of the Coalition government's Indigenous Advisory Council by then-prime minister,Tony Abbott.
Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson is an Australian politician.
Jacqueline Gail "Jackie" Huggins is an Aboriginal Australian author,historian,academic and advocate for the rights of Indigenous Australians. She is a Bidjara/Pitjara,Birri Gubba and Juru woman from Queensland.
Kenneth George Wyatt is a former Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 2010 to 2022,representing the Division of Hasluck for the Liberal Party. He is the first Indigenous Australian elected to the House of Representatives,the first to serve as a government minister,and the first appointed to cabinet. Wyatt was appointed Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health in the Turnbull Government in January 2017,after previously serving as an assistant minister since September 2015. He was elevated to cabinet in May 2019 as Minister for Indigenous Australians in the Morrison government.
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 a member of the 'Stolen Generation' and is an activist for living members of that group.
Lidia Alma Thorpe is an Australian politician representing the Australian Greens. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020,and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. From June to October 2022,she served as the Greens' deputy leader in the Senate.
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.
Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price is an Indigenous Australian activist and politician from the Northern Territory. Price is a member of the Country Liberal Party,a politically conservative party operating in the Northern Territory affiliated with the national Coalition. She became a Senator for the Northern Territory at the 2022 federal election,replacing Sam McMahon,whom she defeated for preselection in June 2021. In federal parliament,Price sits in the National Party room.
Teresa Angela van Lieshout is an Australian perennial candidate,author,and former teacher. She has been contesting elections since 2004. In 2021,she was arrested for allegedly taking part in a plot to overthrow the government.
Jana Naretha Anne Stewart is an Australian politician and former public servant. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was appointed as a Senator for Victoria in April 2022,filling the vacancy caused by the death of Kimberley Kitching.
Kerrynne Liddle is an Australian politician and the first Indigenous federal member of parliament from South Australia. She is an Arrente 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.
