Related Research Articles
David McLean Davis is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council since March 1996,representing East Yarra Province from 1996 until 2006 when it was abolished and the Southern Metropolitan Region from 2006 onwards. He was state Minister for Health from 2010 to 2014 under Premiers Ted Baillieu and Denis Napthine.
The electoral district of Bass is one of the electoral districts of Victoria,Australia,for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of 1,358 square kilometres (524 sq mi) south east of Melbourne,stretching from the satellite suburb of Clyde through rural areas to the coast at Inverloch and Phillip Island. It includes the suburbs and towns of Bass,Cape Paterson,Clyde,Corinella,Cowes,Grantville,Inverloch,Kilcunda,Koo Wee Rup,Lang Lang,Pearcedale,Rhyll,San Remo,Tooradin,Ventnor and Wonthaggi. It lies within the Eastern Victoria Region of the upper house,the Legislative Council.
The electoral district of Bayswater is one of the electoral districts of Victoria,Australia,for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of 39 square kilometres (15 sq mi) in outer eastern Melbourne,and includes the suburbs of Bayswater,Heathmont,Kilsyth South and The Basin,and parts of Bayswater North,Boronia,Ringwood and Wantirna. It lies within the Eastern Metropolitan Region of the upper house,the Legislative Council.
Kenneth Maurice Smith is an Australian politician who was the member for Bass in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2014. He was Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 21 December 2010 to 4 February 2014.
The electoral district of Evelyn is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly covering the urban fringe north east of Melbourne. It was first proclaimed in 1859.
Prahran is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It was created by the Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888,taking effect at the 1889 elections. The electorate is the state’s smallest by area,covering a little under 11 km²in the inner south-east of Melbourne. It includes the suburbs of South Yarra,Prahran and Windsor,as well as parts of Southbank,St Kilda and St Kilda East.
The 2006 Victorian state election,held on Saturday,25 November 2006,was for the 56th Parliament of Victoria. Just over 3 million Victorians registered to vote elected 88 members to the Legislative Assembly and,for the first time,40 members to the Legislative Council under a proportional representation system. The election was conducted by the independent Victorian Electoral Commission.
The electoral district of Melbourne is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It currently includes the localities of Docklands,Carlton,Melbourne,East Melbourne,West Melbourne,North Melbourne,Parkville,Newmarket,Kensington and Flemington,and includes Melbourne University. The district has been in existence since 1856.
Ann Patricia Barker is a former Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2014,representing the electorate of Oakleigh. She previously represented the electorate of Bentleigh from 1988 to 1992.
Paul Weller is an Australian politician and was the Nationals member for Rodney in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2014.
Robert George Mitchell is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since August 2010,representing the electorate of McEwen. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2002 to 2006,and was Second Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2013 to 2022.
There have been 108 women in the Victorian Legislative Assembly since its establishment in 1856. Women have had the right to vote in Victoria,Australia since 1908 and the right to stand as a candidate for the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1923.
Heather McTaggart is an Australian politician. A member of the Labor Party,she represented the electoral district of Evelyn in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2006.
The 2014 Victorian state election,held on Saturday,29 November 2014,was for the 58th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and 40 seats in the Victorian Legislative Council were up for election. The incumbent centre-right Coalition minority government,led by Liberal Party leader and Premier Denis Napthine and National Party leader and Deputy Premier Peter Ryan,was defeated by the centre-left Labor Party opposition,led by Daniel Andrews. The Greens won two lower house seats,their first Legislative Assembly seats in a Victorian state election,whilst increasing their share of upper house seats. The new Andrews Ministry was sworn in on 4 December 2014.
Geoffrey Page Shaw is an Australian politician who represented Frankston in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2010 to 2014. He was initially a member of the Parliamentary Liberal Party until March 2013,before becoming an independent politician. In March 2014,Shaw resigned as a member of the Liberal Party as moves were being made to expel him from the party.
Cr. George Tomas Gahan JP was an Australian politician and Victorian amateur boxer. He was born in Inglewood,Victoria to Benjamin Edward Gahan and Emma Gahan née Walker. The Gahan family later moved to the Melbourne suburb of Prahran where George became a building contractor. At a young age George began training as an amateur boxer. In his mid 30s Gahan attempted to join the Australian Army and defend his country in World War II. Despite being rejected by army due to a duodenal ulcer,Gahan applied a second time,only be to turned away again. This tenacious streak proved to be a valuable attribute as George again turned his focus towards amateur boxing,winning a Yarraville boxing competition and in 1949 in the final of the Welter division was beaten by the Australian champion Bill Seewitz. George had his last fight at 42 years of age when he was stopped in the 2nd round by his opponent 20 years his junior. George's tenacity and fighting talent soon shifted from the boxing ring to the political arena,becoming known as Prahran's George the Giant Killer. From 1957 to 1959,George Gahan was the president of the Prahran-South Yarra branch of the Helping Hand League of Victoria;now known as Inclusion Melbourne.
This is a list of candidates for the 2014 Victorian state election. The election was held on 29 November 2014.
The 2018 Victorian state election was held on Saturday,24 November 2018 to elect the 59th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election. The first-term incumbent Labor government,led by Premier Daniel Andrews,won a second four-year term,defeating the Liberal/National Coalition opposition,led by Opposition Leader Matthew Guy in a landslide victory. Minor party the Greens led by Samantha Ratnam also contested the election.
This is a list of candidates for the 2018 Victorian state election. The election was held on 24 November 2018. Nominations of candidates opened on 31 October 2018. Nominations for party candidates closed on 8 November,and for independent candidates on 9 November.
Luba Norma Grigorovitch is an Australian politician. She represents the Labor Party and is a former trade union official.
References
- ↑ "About Christine & Evelyn - Christine Fyffe MP". Archived from the original on 22 February 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
- 1 2 Parliament of Victoria (2008). "Fyffe, Christine Ann". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
- ↑ "Ken Smith resigns, Christine Fyffe becomes the new Speaker". ABC News. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ↑ "Retirement of Christine Fyffe". vic.liberal.org.au. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
