Sussan Penelope Ley is an Australian politician who has been deputy leader of the Liberal Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition since May 2022. She has been member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales seat of Farrer since 2001 and was a cabinet minister in the Abbott,Turnbull and Morrison governments.
Scott John Morrison is an Australian former politician who served as the 30th prime minister of Australia from 2018 to 2022. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Cook from 2007 until 2024.
Sarah Moya Henderson is an Australian politician,lawyer and former journalist. She has been a Senator for Victoria since September 2019,representing the Liberal Party. She previously held the Division of Corangamite in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019.
Bridget McKenzie is an Australian politician. She is a member of the National Party and has been a Senator for Victoria since 2011. She has held ministerial office in the Turnbull and Morrison governments,also serving as the party's Senate leader since 2019.
Michelle Leanne Landry is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2013 federal election,representing the Division of Capricornia. Landry served as the Assistant Minister for Children and Families (2018–2022) and as the Assistant Minister for Northern Australia (2020–2022) in the Morrison government. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland,and sits with the Nationals in federal parliament.
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.
The 46th Parliament of Australia was a meeting of the legislative branch of the Australian federal government,composed of the Australian Senate and the Australian House of Representatives. The 2019 federal election gave the Coalition of the Liberal and National Parties control of the House,originally with a three-seat majority,allowing their leader Scott Morrison to stay in office as the 30th Prime Minister of Australia. The 46th Parliament was opened in Canberra on 2 July 2019 and was dissolved by the Governor General David Hurley on 11 April 2022.
The Victorian Liberal Party,officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) and branded as Liberal Victoria,is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria. It was formed in 1944. It became the Liberal and Country Party (LCP) in 1949,and simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1965. The party sits on the centre-right to right-wing of the Australian political spectrum.
Leadership spills of the federal parliamentary leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia were held on 21 and 24 August 2018 and were called by the incumbent leader of the party,Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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.
Dr Fiona Barbouttis Martin is an Australian psychologist and former politician who served as the Member for Reid from 2019,becoming the first woman to represent the seat. She was defeated for re-election in 2022 by Labor's Sally Sitou.
Helen Mary Haines is an Australian politician who has served as the independent MP for the Victorian seat of Indi since the 2019 federal election.
The 2025 Australian federal election will be held on or before 24 May 2025,or be held on or before 27 September 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.
This is a list of electoral division results for the 2022 Australian federal election in the state of Tasmania.
Michelle Renuka Ananda-Rajah is an Australian politician. Ananda-Rajah was elected for the Division of Higgins in the 2022 Australian federal election as a member of the Australian Labor Party. Prior to entering politics,she was a clinician-scientist,and infectious diseases physician.
A leadership election of the Liberal Party of Australia was held on 30 May 2022,following the defeat of the Scott Morrison government at the 2022 federal election and the resignation of Morrison as party leader. The newly elected leader would become Leader of the Opposition to the Labor Party government of Anthony Albanese. A separate leadership spill for the Liberal Party's Coalition partner National Party was also held on the same day.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission,often shortened to the NACC,is an independent federal Australian Government agency that was created under the National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022. The commission is designed to combat corrupt conduct from public officials employed in the Australian Public Service (APS),including politicians and bureaucrats. It was established on 1 July 2023,and replaced the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (ACLEI).
A leadership spill for the federal leadership of the National Party of Australia was held on 30 May 2022. The spill follows the federal election in which the Coalition,of which the Nationals form part,lost government,earlier in the same month. The incumbent leader,Barnaby Joyce,had served as Deputy Prime Minister in the outgoing government. He lost against his deputy David Littleproud,who was elected party leader.
The Scott Morrison ministerial positions controversy was a major political scandal in Australia involving the former Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison. Following the 2022 Australian federal election,at which Morrison's government was defeated,it was revealed that Morrison had had himself secretly appointed to five ministerial positions without the knowledge of the public or his own government. An inquiry conducted by former High Court Justice Virginia Bell recommended legislative changes to prevent such a consolidation of decision making occurring in the future. On 29 November 2023,the Ministers of State Amendment Act 2023 came into effect,requiring all future ministerial appointments and certain other appointments to be publicly notified.
