The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia,the upper house being the Senate. Its composition and powers are set down in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia.
The Parliament of Australia is the federal legislature of Australia. It consists of three elements:the monarch of Australia,the Senate,and the House of Representatives. It combines elements from the Westminster system,in which the party or coalition with a majority in the lower house is entitled to form a government,and the United States Congress,which affords equal representation to each of the states,and scrutinises legislation before it can be signed into law.
Peter James Andren AM was an Australian politician. He was an independent member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 until October 2007,representing the electorate of Calare,New South Wales.
John Kenneth Cobb is an Australian former politician who served as a National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 2001 representing the Division of Parkes,and the Division of Calare from 2007 to 2016 when he retired.
Warren George Entsch is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007 and since 2010,representing the Division of Leichhardt. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland,and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.
Russell Evan Broadbent is an Australian politician who is a member of the House of Representatives,representing the Division of Monash. He is one of the longest-serving current members of parliament,having been in parliament from 1990 to 1993,from 1996 to 1998,and since 2004. In November 2023,he stood down from the Liberal Party and its parliamentary party room and joined the crossbench in response to losing his party endorsement ahead of a federal election due by September 2025.
The Division of Calare is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
Mark Maclean Coulton is an Australian politician. He is a member of the National Party and has served in the House of Representatives since the 2007 federal election,representing the Division of Parkes in New South Wales. He has served as Minister for Regional Health,Regional Communications and Local Government (2020–2021),Minister for Regional Services,Decentralisation and Local Government (2019–2020),Assistant Minister for Trade and Investment (2019–2020),Assistant Minister for Trade,Tourism and Investment (2018–2019),and Deputy Speaker of the House (2016–2018).
Kenneth George Wyatt is an Australian former politician. He 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.
Paul Lawrence Toole is an Australian politician. Toole was the Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 2021 to 2023,and the leader of the New South Wales Nationals from October 2021 to May 2023.
This article lists candidates for the 2016 Australian federal election. There were 1,625 candidates in total.
David Kelly Littleproud is an Australian politician who has been the leader of the National Party since May 2022. He has represented the Queensland seat of Maranoa since the 2016 federal election and was a cabinet minister in the Turnbull and Morrison governments.
A by-election for the seat of Orange in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 12 November 2016. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Nationals MP Andrew Gee on 6 May to contest the division of Calare at the 2016 federal election. The by-election was won by Philip Donato of the Shooters,Fishers and Farmers Party—the first seat won by the party in a state lower house.
The Morrison government was the federal executive government of Australia,led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison of the Liberal Party of Australia,between 2018 and 2022. The Morrison government commenced on 24 August 2018,when it was sworn in by the Governor-General of Australia. It was composed of members of the Liberal–National Coalition and succeeded the Abbott (2013–2015) and Turnbull (2015–2018) coalition governments in office,competing against the Australian Labor Party as the major Opposition party. Nationals Leader Michael McCormack was Deputy Prime Minister of Australia from the formation of the Morrison government until June 2021. He was replaced as Leader of the Nationals and Deputy Prime Minister by Barnaby Joyce.
The 2022 Australian federal election was held on Saturday 21 May 2022 to elect members of the 47th Parliament of Australia. The incumbent Liberal/National Coalition government,led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison,sought to win a fourth consecutive term in office but was defeated by the opposition Labor Party,led by Anthony Albanese. Up for election were all 151 seats in the lower house,the House of Representatives,as well as 40 of the 76 seats in the upper house,the Senate.
Samuel Jacob Farraway is an Australian politician who served in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2019 to 2024 and as the Minister for Regional Transport and Roads in the second Perrottet ministry between December 2021 and March 2023.
The Voices for or Voices of groups are a series of loosely related political community engagement groups in Australia. Some of the groups have endorsed candidates to run as candidates in federal elections. The independence of some of the candidates endorsed by some groups has been disputed,with some candidates receiving significant funding from the Climate 200 fund backed by energy investor Simon Holmes àCourt.
The 2025 Australian federal election will be held on or before 17 May 2025 to elect members of the 48th Parliament of Australia. 150 seats in the House of Representatives and likely 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate will be contested. It is expected that at this election,the Labor government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be seeking re-election to a second term in office,opposed by the Liberal/National Coalition under Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton,minor parties such as the Greens,and independents.
The 47th Parliament of Australia is the current meeting of the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Australia,composed of the Australian Senate and the Australian House of Representatives. The May 2022 federal election gave the Australian Labor Party control of the House,with 77 seats,enough for a two-seat majority government. Labor gained an additional seat at the Aston by-election in April 2023,thereby increasing its majority to three seats for the remainder of the term. Following the election,Labor leader Anthony Albanese became the 31st Prime Minister of Australia,and was sworn in by the Governor-General David Hurley on 23 May 2022. The 47th Parliament opened in Canberra on 26 July 2022.
This is a list of members of the House of Representatives of the 47th Parliament of Australia (2022–2025). They were elected in the 2022 Australian federal election or subsequent by-elections.
