Clover Margaret Moore is an Australian politician. She has been the Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney since 2004 and is currently the longest serving Lord Mayor of Sydney since the creation of the City of Sydney in 1842. She was an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 2012,representing the electorates of Bligh (1988–2007) and Sydney (2007–2012). Her "recurrent motif" is described as "making Sydney more liveable for individuals and families". Moore is the first popularly elected female Lord Mayor of Sydney.
John Chun Sai So is a Hong Kong Australian businessman who served as the 102nd Lord Mayor of Melbourne,the capital of Victoria,Australia. He was the first Lord Mayor in the city's history to be directly elected by voters;previously,Lord Mayors were elected by the councillors. He is also the first Lord Mayor of Melbourne of Chinese descent.
Robert Keith Bennett Doyle is an Australian politician who was the 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne,elected on 30 November 2008 until he resigned on 4 February 2018 amidst allegations of sexual harassment. He was previously Member for Malvern in the Legislative Assembly of Victoria from 1992 to 2006 and Leader of the Victorian Opposition from 2002 to 2006,representing the Liberal Party.
William Daniel Heffernan,is an Australian former politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Senate representing the state of New South Wales from September 1996 to May 2016.
Steven Fielding is a former Australian senator for the state of Victoria and the former federal parliamentary leader of the Family First Party. He was elected to the upper house at the 2004 federal election on two per cent of the first-preference votes. He failed to gain re-election at the 2010 federal election. His term ended on 30 June 2011.
Stephen Mayne is an Australian journalist,local government councillor,and self-described shareholder activist. He won the Walkley Award.
The Victorian Greens,officially known as the Australian Greens Victoria,is the Victorian state member party of the Australian Greens,a green political party in Australia.
Lee Rhiannon is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales between July 2011 and August 2018. She was elected at the 2010 federal election,representing the Australian Greens. Prior to her election to the Federal Parliament,Rhiannon was a Greens NSW member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1999 and 2010.
Michael David Danby is an Australian politician who was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1998 until 2019,representing the Division of Melbourne Ports,Victoria. Danby was briefly Parliamentary Secretary for the Arts,from March to September 2013.
Richard Luigi Di Natale is a former Australian politician who was a senator for Victoria. He was also the leader of the Australian Greens from 2015 to 2020. Di Natale was elected to the Senate in the 2010 federal election. A former general practitioner,Di Natale became federal parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens on 6 May 2015 following the resignation of Christine Milne. He was the leader of the Greens during the 2016 and 2019 federal elections.
Sarah Coral Hanson-Young is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since July 2008,representing the Australian Greens. She is the youngest woman to be elected to federal parliament,winning election at the age of 25 and taking office at the age of 26. She was the youngest person ever elected to the Senate,until Jordon Steele-John was elected in 2017.
The 2008 Gippsland by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Gippsland on 28 June 2008. It was triggered by the resignation of National Party MP Peter McGauran.
Gary Singer is an Australian politician. He was the Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne from 2004 to 2008,serving under John So. He ran to succeed So as Lord Mayor upon his retirement in 2008,but was defeated by former state Liberal Party leader Robert Doyle.
Adam Paul Bandt is an Australian politician and former industrial lawyer who is the leader of the Australian Greens and federal MP for Melbourne. Previously,he served as co-deputy leader of the Greens from 2012 to 2015 and 2017 to 2020. He was elected leader following the resignation of Richard Di Natale in February 2020.
Kathleen Maltzahn is an Australian author,academic and anti-sex work activist. She is a former councillor for the City of Yarra and was the Australian Greens Victoria candidate for the state seat of Richmond in the 2010,2014 and 2018 Victorian elections.
David Martin Shoebridge is an Australian politician and former barrister. He is a member of the Australian Greens and was elected to the Senate as the party's lead candidate in New South Wales at the 2022 federal election,to a term beginning on 1 July 2022. He previously served in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2010 to 2022 and on the Woollahra Municipal Council from 2004 to 2012.
Anthony Robert Pooley is an Australian public servant and former local government politician,who served from 2002 as the last Mayor of South Sydney before its amalgamation with the City of Sydney in 2004.
Irene Doutney was an Australian politician,who was a councillor of the City of Sydney for the Greens New South Wales. In 2016,she became Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney.
A by-election to elect the Lord Mayor of Melbourne took place from 23 April until 11 May 2018,following the resignation of the 103rd Lord Mayor,Robert Doyle. The election used a preferential voting system and was held by postal ballot.
Anna Reynolds is an Australian politician and since November 2018 the Lord Mayor of Hobart,Tasmania.
