The Democratic Labour Party (DLP),formerly the Democratic Labor Party,is an Australian political party. It broke off from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as a result of the 1955 ALP split,originally under the name Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist),and was renamed the Democratic Labor Party in 1957. In 1962,the Queensland Labor Party,a breakaway party of the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party,became the Queensland branch of the DLP.
The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria,Australia,the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street,Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review,in a similar fashion to its federal counterpart,the Australian Senate. Although,it is possible for legislation to be first introduced in the Council,most bills receive their first hearing in the Legislative Assembly.
The Liberal Democratic Party,shortened as LDP,Liberal Democrats,or Lib Dems,is an Australian political party founded in Canberra in 2001. The party espouses smaller government and supports policies that are based on classical liberal,libertarian principles,such as lower taxes,opposing restrictions on civil liberties,decentralisation,utilising nuclear energy,and the relaxation of smoking laws.
Southern Metropolitan Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria,Australia,which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council by proportional representation. The region was created in 2006 following the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council.
Susan Margaret Pennicuik is an Australian politician who served as a Greens member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2006 to 2018. Since April 2022,Pennicuik has served as a councillor on the City of Glen Eira
Fiona Heather Patten is an Australian politician. She is the leader of Reason Australia and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council between 2014 and 2022,representing the Northern Metropolitan Region until she lost her seat at the 2022 state election.
The Sustainable Australia Party,formerly the Sustainable Population Party,is an Australian political party formed in 2010.
Members of the Victorian Legislative Council,the upper house of the Parliament of the Australian State of Victoria,are elected from eight multi-member electorates called regions. The Legislative Council has 40 members,five from each of the eight regions.
The Minor Party Alliance (MPA) is a collaborative undertaking of small Australian political parties,created by Glenn Druery's "Independent Liaison" business,which assists in organising preference meetings and negotiating preference flows between minor parties in Australia. The aim of the Alliance is the election of Alliance candidates to Australian upper houses based upon the accumulation of their primary votes and the registered "above-the-line" party preferences to reach an electoral quota. For the Australian Senate,the quota for a half-Senate election in each State is normally 14.3%. The MPA effectively aims to "game" the electoral system,an act it believes to be justified,based upon their perception that the Australian electoral system is unfair and heavily biased against minor parties.
Vote 1 Local Jobs was a minor political party in the state of Victoria,Australia. It was registered as a political party by the Victorian Electoral Commission on 3 November 2014,in time for the 2014 state election.
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.
Derryn Hinch's Justice Party,also known as the Justice Party,was a political party in Australia,registered for federal elections since 14 April 2016. The party was named after its founder,Derryn Hinch,an Australian media personality.
Samantha Shantini Ratnam is an Sri Lankan Australian social worker,politician and the current leader of the Victorian Greens. Since October 2017 Ratnam has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Council,representing the Northern Metropolitan Region. Prior to this she was a councillor and mayor for the City of Moreland.
The Australian Conservatives was formed in July 2016 as a conservative political activist group in Australia and as a political party in February 2017. It was led by Cory Bernardi,who had been elected to the Senate for the Liberal Party,but resigned citing disagreements with the Liberal/National Coalition,its policies and leadership under Malcolm Turnbull.
The Victorian Socialists (VS) are a political party based in the Australian state of Victoria.
Rod Barton is an Australian politician. He is the co-founder of the Transport Matters Party and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council,representing the Eastern Metropolitan Region. He was elected in November 2018 but was not re-elected at the 2022 election.
Tania Maree Maxwell is a former Australian politician. She was a Derryn Hinch's Justice Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council between 2018 and 2022,representing Northern Victoria Region. She was not re-elected at the 2022 state election.
David Boyd Limbrick is an Australian politician. He is a Liberal Democratic Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2018,representing South Eastern Metropolitan Region. He resigned in April 2022 to contest the 2022 federal election as a Senate candidate for his party. In June 2022 he returned to the Victorian Parliament as an MP and was subsequently re-elected at the 2022 state election.
Catherine Rebecca Cumming is a former Australian politician. She was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from November 2018 to November 2022,representing the Western Metropolitan Region. She stood at the 2018 Victorian state election as a candidate for Derryn Hinch's Justice Party,but broke with the party just weeks after being elected,and was sworn in as an independent. A frequent speaker at anti-COVID vaccine rallies,Cumming joined the Angry Victorians Party in 2022 but was unsuccessful in her re-election attempt,gaining just 0.57% of the vote.
The 2022 Victorian state election was held on Saturday,26 November 2022 to elect the 60th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election at the time the writs were issued,however the election in the district of Narracan was deferred due to the death of a candidate.
