Warren George Entsch is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007 and since 2010,representing the Division of Leichhardt. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland,and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.
Warren Edward Snowdon is an Australian former politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from July 1987 to March 1996,and again from October 1998 until May 2022. Initially representing the Division of Northern Territory,and later the Division of Lingiari,his constituents consisted of all the residents of the Northern Territory located outside Darwin,as well as Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean. He was the last sitting MP who was first elected in the 1980s,and the last who served in Old Parliament House.
Rachel Mary Siewert is an Australian politician. She was a senator for Western Australia from 2005 to 2021,representing the Australian Greens,and served as the party's co-deputy leader from 2017 to 2018. She previously worked as coordinator of the Conservation Council of Western Australia.
Patrick Lionel Djargun Dodson is an Australian politician and activist. He was appointed as a replacement to fill a casual vacancy in the Australian Senate for Western Australia. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party. He is a Yawuru elder from Broome,Western Australia. He has been chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and a Commissioner into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. He was briefly a Roman Catholic priest. He was the winner of the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize and the 2009 John Curtin Medallist. He is the brother of Mick Dodson.
The committees of the Australian Senate are committees of Senators,established by the Australian Senate,for purposes determined by that body. Senate committees are part of the operation of the Australian parliament,and have for some decades been involved in maintenance of government accountability to the Australian parliament,particularly through hearings to scrutinise the budget,and through public inquiries on policy questions.
Parliamentary committees of the Australian House of Representatives are groups of Members of Parliament,appointed by the House of Representatives,to undertake certain specified tasks. They comprise government and non-government Members and have considerable powers to undertake work on behalf of the Parliament.
Simon John Birmingham is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 2007. A member of the Liberal Party,he served in the Morrison government as Minister for Finance from 2020 to 2022 and as Minister for Trade,Tourism and Investment from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as Minister for Education and Training in the Turnbull government from 2015 to 2018,and as a parliamentary secretary and assistant minister in the Abbott government.
An Australian Aboriginal sacred site is a place deemed significant and meaningful by Aboriginal Australians based on their beliefs. It may include any feature in the landscape,and in coastal areas,these may lie underwater. The site's status is derived from an association with some aspect of social and cultural tradition,which is related to ancestral beings,collectively known as Dreamtime,who created both physical and social aspects of the world. The site may have its access restricted based on gender,clan or other Aboriginal grouping,or other factors.
Richard James Wilson is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has represented the Western Australian seat of O'Connor in the House of Representatives since the 2013 federal election. He was a farmer before entering politics.
Matthew James Canavan is an Australian politician. He was elected to the Australian Senate representing the state of Queensland at the 2013 federal election for the term beginning 1 July 2014. He won re-election at the 2016 election and again at the 2022 Australian federal election. He was the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia between February 2016 and February 2020. He is a member of the Liberal National Party and sits with National Party in federal parliament.
Joseph Warrington Bullock is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Western Australia from 2013 to 2016,representing the Australian Labor Party.
Anthony David Chisholm is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a Senator for Queensland since 2016. He was appointed an assistant minister in the Albanese government following the party's victory at the 2022 federal election. He previously served as the party's state secretary from 2008 to 2014.
James William Paterson is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Victoria since 2016,representing the Liberal Party. He was appointed to Peter Dutton's shadow ministry following the Coalition's defeat at the 2022 federal election.
The history of same-sex marriage in Australia includes its express prohibition by the Howard government in 2004 and its eventual legalisation by the Parliament in December 2017. Although a same-sex marriage law was passed by the Australian Capital Territory in 2013,it was struck down by the High Court on the basis of inconsistency with federal law. The Court's decision closed the possibility of concurrent state or territory laws that would allow same-sex marriage where federal law did not. A law legalising same-sex marriage passed the Parliament on 7 December 2017 and received royal assent the following day.
William Edward Slade Brockman is an Australian politician who has served as a Senator for Western Australia since 2017,representing the Liberal Party. He was elected President of the Australian Senate in October 2021 following the resignation of Scott Ryan.
Phillip Bruce Thompson,is an Australian politician. His party is the Liberal National Party of Queensland and he sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.
Anika Shay Wells is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2019 federal election. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and represents the Division of Lilley in Queensland. Wells is currently the Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Sport.
David Van is an Australian politician. He was elected as a member of the Liberal Party and was sworn in as a federal senator representing the state of Victoria on 1 July 2019.
Matthew Anthony O'Sullivan is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian Senate since 2019.
Juukan Gorge is a gorge in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia,about 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Tom Price. It was named by the daughter of Puutu Kunti Kurrama man Juukan,also known as Tommy Ashburton,who was born at Jukarinya.
