Wangaratta is a city in the northeast of Victoria,Australia,236 km (147 mi) from Melbourne along the Hume Highway. The city had a population of 29,808 per the 2021 Australian Census.
Sophie Mirabella is an Australian lawyer and former politician who currently serves as a Commissioner on the Fair Work Commission since 24 May 2021. She was previously a Liberal Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013,representing the Division of Indi,Victoria.
The Division of Indi is an Australian electoral division in the state of Victoria. The division is located in the north-east of the state,adjoining the border with New South Wales. The largest settlements in the division are the regional cities of Wodonga,Wangaratta,and Benalla. Other towns in the electorate include Rutherglen,Mansfield,Beechworth,Myrtleford,Bright,Alexandra,Tallangatta,Corryong and a number of other small villages. While Indi is one of the largest electorates in Victoria,much of it is located within the largely uninhabited Australian Alps. While Wodonga serves as a regional hub for much of the more heavily populated northern part of the electorate,the southern part is closer to Melbourne than Wodonga.
Kenneth Stephen Jasper AM is a former Nationals member for Murray Valley in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He was first elected in 1976 and announced his retirement from the Legislative Assembly effective from the 2010 Victorian Legislative Assembly election.
Kelly Megan O'Dwyer is a former Australian politician. She served in the House of Representatives from 2009 to 2019,representing the Liberal Party,and held senior ministerial office from 2015 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.
The 2016 Australian federal election was a double dissolution election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia,after an extended eight-week official campaign period. It was the first double dissolution election since the 1987 election and the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting.
The United Australia Party (UAP),formerly known as Clive Palmer's United Australia Party and the Palmer United Party (PUP),is an Australian political party formed by mining magnate Clive Palmer in April 2013. The party was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission in 2017,revived and re-registered in 2018,and voluntarily deregistered in 2022. The party fielded candidates in all 150 House of Representatives seats at the 2013 federal election. Palmer,the party's leader,was elected to the Division of Fairfax and it reached a peak of three senators following the rerun of the Western Australian senate election in 2014. When the party was revived under its original name in 2018,it was represented by ex-One Nation senator Brian Burston in the federal parliament.
Terri Megan Butler is an Australian public servant and former politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 2014 to 2022,representing the seat of Griffith for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She worked as an industrial lawyer prior to entering parliament and in 2024 was appointed as a deputy president of the Fair Work Commission.
The 2019 Australian federal election was held on Saturday 18 May 2019 to elect members of the 46th Parliament of Australia. The election had been called following the dissolution of the 45th Parliament as elected at the 2016 double dissolution federal election. All 151 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate were up for election.
Zak Richard Francis Kirkup is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the Western Australian Liberal Party,and served as a member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Dawesville from 2017 to 2021.
The 2021 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday,March 13,to elect members to the Parliament of Western Australia,where all 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 36 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election.
The 45th 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. It met in Canberra from 30 August 2016 to 4 April 2019. The 2016 general election held on 2 July gave the Coalition of the Liberal and National Parties control of the House,albeit with a slimmer majority than the 44th Parliament,allowing their leader Malcolm Turnbull to stay in office as the 29th Prime Minister of Australia. During the term of the parliament,the government slipped into minority due to defections and by-elections. The leadership of the government also changed during the parliament,when Scott Morrison replaced Turnbull as Liberal Leader and Prime Minister in August 2018. The 45th Parliament was officially prorogued by the Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove at 8:29 a.m. on 11 April 2019,and the House of Representatives dissolved at 8:30 a.m.
This is a list of candidates for the 2019 Australian federal election,held on 18 May 2019.
A by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Wentworth took place on 20 October 2018 after the parliamentary resignation of the former Prime Minister of Australia and incumbent Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull.
This is a list of electoral division results for the 2019 Australian federal election in the state of Victoria. Victoria bucked the national trend,seeing a swing from the Coalition to Labor,whereas the swing across Australia was from Labor to the Coalition.
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 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.
Zoe Daniel is an Australian politician and former journalist. She was elected as the first independent member of parliament for the Division of Goldstein during the 2022 Australian federal election. Prior to entering Parliament,Zoe Daniel was a journalist for the ABC,from 1993 until 2020. She was an ABC foreign correspondent in three different postings,including Southeast Asia,the USA and Africa. Her most recent posting was as the ABC’s US bureau chief between 2015 and 2019,where she led the ABC's coverage of the Presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Teal independents,simply known as teals and also called community independents,are a loosely-aligned group of centrist,independent or minor party politicians in Australian politics. They have been characterised as strongly advocating for increased action to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions along with improved political integrity and accountability. They also generally share socially liberal outlooks,including on issues such as LGBT rights,and have harnessed grassroots campaigning to achieve strong swings towards them.
