The 1998 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 39th Parliament of Australia. It was held on 3 October 1998. All 148 seats of the House of Representatives and 40 seats of the 76 seat Senate were up for election. The incumbent centre-right Liberal/National Coalition government led by Prime Minister John Howard of the Liberal Party and coalition partner Tim Fischer of the National Party defeated the centre-left Australian Labor Party opposition led by Opposition Leader Kim Beazley,despite losing the nationwide popular and two-party preferred vote. However,the Australian Labor Party gained seats compared to the previous election.
Michelle Anne O'Byrne is Australian politician for the Australian Labor Party and since May 2024,the Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
Janelle Anne Saffin is an Australian Labor Party politician. She has been the Member for Lismore in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 23 March 2019. She was the Member for Page in the Australian House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013,and a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1995 to 2003.
The Queensland Greens is a Green party in Queensland,Australia,and a state member of the Australian Greens. The party is currently represented in all three levels of government,by Larissa Waters and Penny Allman-Payne in the federal Senate;Stephen Bates,Max Chandler-Mather,and Elizabeth Watson-Brown in the House of Representatives;Michael Berkman and Amy MacMahon in the state Legislative Assembly;and Trina Massey and Seal Chong Wah in Brisbane City Council.
An election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 9 September 2006 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly,after being announced by Premier Peter Beattie on 15 August 2006.
Aspley is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
Kerry Gerard Shine is an Australian Labor politician who was member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Toowoomba North from 2001 to 2012 and served as Attorney-General of Queensland from 2006 to 2009. He was elected as a member of Toowoomba Regional Council in March 2020.
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 19 September 1992 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
Nicholas Wakeling is an Australian former politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly,representing the electorate of Ferntree Gully from 2006 until his defeat at the 2022 Victorian state election.
Clayfield is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. It is centred on the inner northern suburb of Clayfield in the state capital of Brisbane.
Kate Jennifer Jones is an Australian former politician. She served as a Labor Party Member of Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2006 to 2012,and again from 2015 to 2020. Jones first represented the seat of Ashgrove until she was defeated by eventual Premier Campbell Newman at the 2012 state election. Jones retook the seat for the Labor Party at the 2015 state election. The seat was abolished prior to the 2017 state election,so Jones contested and won the new seat of Cooper at that election. In the Palaszczuk Government,she was the Minister for Innovation and Tourism Industry Development,Minister for State Development and the Minister for the Commonwealth Games.
Tracy Ellen Davis is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2009 to 2017,representing the district of Aspley. She currently serves on the Brisbane City Council as the Councillor for McDowall Ward.
Grant Steven Musgrove is an Australian public figure. Roles have included senior public servant in the Queensland Cabinet Office under Premier Wayne Goss,Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR),the peak industry body for the resource recovery industry,a senior university advisor and member of parliament. He is a regular media commentator and keynote speaker on resource recovery and the recycling industry internationally. He was the member for Springwood in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2001,representing the Labor Party.
Trevor John Watts is an Australian Liberal National politician who is the member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Toowoomba North,having defeated Kerry Shine at the 2012 state election.
The 2017 Queensland state election was held on 25 November 2017 to elect all 93 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland,the unicameral Parliament of Queensland.
The 2024 Northern Territory general election was held on 24 August 2024 to elect all 25 members of the Legislative Assembly in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament. Members were elected through full preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member electorates. The election was conducted by the Northern Territory Electoral Commission (NTEC).
The 2024 Australian Capital Territory general election was held on 19 October 2024 to elect all 25 members of the unicameral ACT Legislative Assembly.
The 2024 Queensland state election was held on 26 October 2024 to elect all members to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland pursuant to the Constitution Amendment Act 2015. As a result of the 2016 Queensland term length referendum,the term of the parliament will run for four years.
Adrian Tantari is an Australian former politician. He was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Hervey Bay at the 2020 Queensland state election and held the seat for one term until his defeat at the 2024 state election. Despite being considered a safe seat for the Liberal National Party in 2020,he achieved an eleven-point swing and won the seat with a majority of two percent,the first non-LNP victory in Hervey Bay since 2006.
Amanda Cooper is an Australian politician. She was elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Aspley in the 2024 Queensland state election.
