The 1996 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 38th Parliament of Australia. It was held on 2 March 1996. All 148 seats of the House of Representatives and 40 seats of the 76-seat Senate were up for election. The centre-right Liberal/National Coalition led by Opposition Leader John Howard of the Liberal Party and coalition partner Tim Fischer of the National Party defeated the incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party government led by Prime Minister Paul Keating in a landslide victory. The Coalition won 94 seats in the House of Representatives,which is the largest number of seats held by a federal government to date.
Duncan James Colquhoun Kerr,SC is a barrister. He is a former justice of the Federal Court of Australia. He also served as President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal from 2012 to 2017.
Alexander Michael Somlyay is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1990 to 2013,representing the Queensland seat of Fairfax for the Liberal Party. He briefly held ministerial office in the Howard government as Minister for Regional Development,Territories and Local Government from 1997 to 1998.
Eric Abetz is an Australian former politician who was a Senator for Tasmania from 1994 to 2022,representing the Liberal Party. He was the Minister for Employment and the Leader of the Government in the Senate in the Abbott Government from 2013 to 2015. He previously also served as Special Minister of State in the Howard Government from 2001 to 2006 and as Minister for Fisheries,Forestry and Conservation from 2006 to 2007.
Richard Mansell Colbeck is an Australian politician. He has been a Senator for Tasmania since 2018,representing the Liberal Party,and served a previous term in the Senate from 2002 to 2016. Colbeck served as the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services and Minister for Sport in the Second Morrison Ministry from December 2020 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. Previous to this,he was the Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Youth and Sport since May 2019.
Michael Ferguson is an Australian politician who is currently the Deputy Premier of Tasmania since April 2022. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the Division of Bass since the 2010 state election. Ferguson was appointed to cabinet after his party's victory in the 2014 state election and has served continuously as Minister in a range of portfolios including Finance,Health,Infrastructure,Transport,State Growth and Science and Technology. He is also the Leader of the House.
Raymond John Groom is an Australian lawyer and former sportsman and politician,representing the Liberal Party in the Federal Parliament 1975–84 and the Tasmanian Parliament 1986–2001. He was a Federal and state minister for a total of 13 years. He was Premier of Tasmania from 1992 to 1996 and also served as Deputy Premier and Attorney-General.
The Division of Braddon is an Australian electoral division in the state of Tasmania. The current MP is Gavin Pearce of the Liberal Party,who was elected at the 2019 federal election.
Jeremy Page Rockliff is an Australian politician who has been serving as the 47th Premier of Tasmania since April 2022,after the resignation of Peter Gutwein as Premier. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the Division of Braddon since the 2002 election. He was the Deputy Premier of Tasmania from 2014 to 2022 before becoming Premier. Since the electoral defeat of the Perrottet Coalition government in New South Wales in March 2023,Rockliff is the only incumbent non-Labor leader of an Australian state government.
Sir Reginald Charles Wright was an Australian barrister and politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1950 to 1978. He held ministerial office in the Gorton and McMahon Governments,although he was known for crossing the floor.
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 1893 election and the 1897 election.
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 1897 election and the 1900 election.
The Centre Party,previously the Country Party,was a minor Australian political party in the state of Tasmania. Initially formed in 1962 as a new Tasmanian branch of the Country Party of Australia after decades of inactivity in the state,it at first enjoyed no electoral success. In the run up to the 1969 election the party was joined by Kevin Lyons,a former Liberal turned independent member of the Assembly for Braddon,who renamed it the Centre Party and retained his seat at the election,securing the balance of power and serving as Deputy Premier in a coalition government until 1972. Upon the coalition's collapse the Centre Party faded away before being dissolved in 1975.
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 13 October 1956 election and the 2 May 1959 election. The previous Darwin division had been renamed Braddon after former Premier of Tasmania Sir Edward Braddon.
Wilfred Bert Bonde is a former Australian politician. Born in Ulverstone,Tasmania,he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1986 as a Liberal member for Braddon. He was a minister from 1996 to 1998. Bonde retired in 2002.
Adam Richard Brooks is a former Liberal Party member for Braddon in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 2010 to 2019. He was an endorsed Liberal Party candidate for the 2021 state election in the division of Braddon,and was re-elected on 1 May,but resigned two weeks after the election following charges being laid against him by Queensland Police for alleged firearms and document offences.
Edward Thomas "Teddy" Miles (1849–1944) was a businessman and politician from Van Diemen's Land,who during his long life was variously a merchant seaman,a Free Trade Party Member of the Tasmanian Parliament,a Minister in the Braddon government,and an entrepreneur.
John Gerald Breheny was an Australian politician.
Shane Thomas Broad is an Australian politician;a five-time national champion and Australian representative rower;and an agricultural scientist.
Gavin Bruce Pearce is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2019 federal election. He is a member of the Liberal Party and represents the Division of Braddon in Tasmania.
