The City of Whittlesea is a local government area located in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne,the state capital of Victoria,Australia. The city covers an area of 490 square kilometres (189.2 sq mi),and in August 2021,it had a population of 229,396.
Bruce Fredrick Billson is an Australian former politician. A member of the Liberal Party,he was a member of the House of Representatives for Dunkley,a Melbourne seat,from 1996 to 2016 and held ministerial office in the Howard,Abbott and Turnbull governments as Minister for Veterans' Affairs (2007) and Minister for Small Business (2013–2015).
Petro Georgiou AO is a Greek Australian politician who was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 1994 to July 2010,representing the Division of Kooyong,Victoria.
Kim Wilkie is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2007,representing the Western Australian seat of Swan for the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
Russell Evan Broadbent is an Australian politician who is a member of the House of Representatives,representing the Division of Monash. He is one of the longest-serving current members of parliament,having been in parliament from 1990 to 1993,from 1996 to 1998,and since 2004. In November 2023,he stood down from the Liberal Party and its parliamentary party room and joined the crossbench in response to losing his party endorsement ahead of a federal election due by September 2025.
John Lenders is an Australian politician. He represented the Southern Metropolitan Region in the Victorian Legislative Council. He was most notably the Minister for Education in the Bracks Government and Treasurer of Victoria in the Brumby Government.
The Division of McMillan was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It was located in the western part of the Gippsland region,which extends for the length of Victoria's eastern Bass Strait coastline. It included the outer south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Pakenham,and also included the towns of Warragul,Moe,Wonthaggi,Leongatha and Foster. It stretched from Mount Baw Baw and the Baw Baw National Park in the north to Wilsons Promontory,and the Wilsons Promontory National Park in the south. It was the southernmost electoral division in continental Australia. It was replaced by the Division of Monash in 2019.
Angus McMillan was a Scottish-born explorer,pioneer pastoralist,and perpetrator of several of the Gippsland massacres of Gunai people.
The following lists events that happened during 1924 in Australia.
The following lists events that happened during 1975 in Australia.
Victoria,commonly abbreviated as Vic,is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state,with a land area of 227,444 km2 (87,817 sq mi);the second-most-populated state,with a population of over 6.7 million;and the most densely populated state in Australia. Victoria's economy is the second-largest among Australian states and is highly diversified,with service sectors predominating.
Andrew David Kennedy is an Australian former politician. Born in Ulverstone,Tasmania,he attended University High School in Melbourne and then the University of Melbourne,after which he became a teacher in Victorian state schools. In 1969,he was elected as a Labor member to the Australian House of Representatives in the by-election for the seat of Bendigo following Noel Beaton's resignation. He held the seat until his defeat in 1972. In 1982,he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Bendigo,and in 1985 he transferred to Bendigo West,a position he held until 1992 when the Labor government was defeated. Kennedy is the earliest elected federal Labor MP still alive.
Darren Jeffrey Chester is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the House of Representatives for Gippsland in Victoria,representing the Nationals since 2008. Chester had served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Defence Personnel between March 2018 and July 2021 in the Turnbull and Morrison governments. He was also Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC until May 2019.
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 Victorian Greens' candidate for the state seat of Richmond in the 2010,2014 and 2018 Victorian elections.
Benjamin Cameron Franklin is an Australian politician. He served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from March 2015 until March 2019,representing the National Party. He resigned in 2019 to contest the Legislative Assembly seat of Ballina,but was defeated by the incumbent Greens MP Tamara Smith. He was subsequently appointed in May 2019 to fill the casual vacancy caused by his own resignation. Franklin served as the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs,the Minister for the Arts,and the Minister for Regional Youth in the second Perrottet ministry from December 2021 to March 2023.
Lidia Alma Thorpe is an Aboriginal Australian independent politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023 when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. She had also served as the Greens' deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022.
Raffaele "Raff" Ciccone is an Australian politician who is a Senator for Victoria,representing the Australian Labor Party. He was appointed to the Senate on 6 March 2019 following the resignation of Jacinta Collins,becoming the 100th Senator to represent the state of Victoria.
Renee Heath is an Australian politician who is a current member for Eastern Victoria Region in the Victorian Legislative Council. She is a member of the Liberal Party and was preselected for the 2022 state election,defeating Cathrine Burnett-Wake as the first person on the Liberal Party's group voting ticket for the Eastern Victoria Region.
The 2020 Victorian local elections were held on 24 October 2020 to elect the councils of 76 of the 79 local government areas in Victoria,Australia.
The 2024 Victorian local elections will be held in October 2024 to elect the councils of 78 of the 79 local government areas (LGAs) in Victoria,Australia.
