Jonathan Donald Stanhope is a former Australian politician who was Labor Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2001 to 2011. Stanhope represented the Ginninderra electorate in the ACT Legislative Assembly from 1998 until 2011. He is the only ACT Chief Minister to have governed with a majority in the ACT Assembly. From 2012 to 2014 Stanhope was Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories,which consists of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
Gary Douglas Hardgrave is an Australian former politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007,representing the Liberal Party. He was a minister in the Howard government from 2001 to 2007,and later served as Administrator of Norfolk Island from 2014 to 2017.
Christian John Zahra was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from October 1998 to October 2004,representing the regional seat of McMillan,Victoria.
Brett David Whiteley is an Australian politician. Whiteley was a Member of the House of Representatives representing the federal division of Braddon. He was elected at the 2013 federal election for the Liberal Party,defeating Labor's Sid Sidebottom,but was defeated after one term by Labor's Justine Keay at the 2016 federal election.
The Division of Grayndler is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
A parachute candidate,or carpetbagger in the United States,is a pejorative term for an election candidate who does not live in the area they are running to represent and has little connection to it. The allegation is thus that a desperate political party lacking reliable talent local to the district or region is "parachuting" the candidate in for the job,or that the party wishes to give a candidate an easier election than would happen in their home area. The term also carries the implication that the candidacy has been imposed without regard to the existing local hierarchy.
Grant Ernest John Tambling,AM is an Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1980 to 1983 and then a Senator for the Northern Territory from 1987 to 2001,representing the Country Liberal Party. In federal parliament,he sat with the National Country Party,later renamed National Party. He later served as Administrator of Norfolk Island from 2003 to 2007.
Mitchell Peter Fifield an Australian politician and diplomat who last served as the Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations. He previously served as a Senator for Victoria from 2004 to 2019,representing the Liberal Party. He was a government minister in the Abbott,Turnbull,and Morrison governments,serving as Assistant Minister for Social Services (2013–2015),Manager of Government Business in the Senate (2013–2015),Minister for Communications (2015–2019),and Minister for the Arts (2015–2019).
Port Macquarie is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Leslie Williams of the Liberal Party.
Mark Alfred Dreyfus is an Australian politician and lawyer who has been attorney-general of Australia and cabinet secretary since June 2022,having held both roles previously in 2013 and from 2010 to 2013 respectively. Dreyfus is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),and has been the MP for Isaacs since the 2007 election.
Redcliffe is a Legislative Assembly of Queensland electoral division in Brisbane,Queensland,Australia.
Raymond Craig Williams is an Australian politician who has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the seat of Kellyville for the Liberal Party since 2023. He previously represented the electorates of Hawkesbury from 2007 to 2015 and Castle Hill from 2015 to 2023.
Michelle Anne Rowland is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Division of Greenway in the House of Representatives since 2010. She was a member of the shadow ministry from 2013 to 2022,and was elected President of the New South Wales Labor Party in October 2021. She is now the Minister for Communications in the government of Anthony Albanese following the ALP's victory in the 2022 Australian federal election.
Natasha Louise Griggs is an Australian former politician and the administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories from 2017 to 2022.
Neil Albert Pope is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Monbulk in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1992. and served as a Minister in the Labor Governments of John Cain II and Joan Kirner.
Michael Sven Sukkar is an Australian politician has served as the Shadow Minister for Housing,NDIS,and Social Services since 2022. Previously he had served as Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Housing and as the Minister for Homelessness,Social and Community Housing. Sukkar has been a member of the House of Representatives since September 2013,representing the Division of Deakin in Victoria for the Liberal Party.
Luke Ronald Howarth is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2013 federal election,representing the Division of Petrie. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.
The 2019 Australian federal election was held on Saturday 18 May 2019 to elect members of the 46th Parliament of Australia. The election had been called following the dissolution of the 45th Parliament as elected at the 2016 double dissolution federal election. All 151 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate were up for election.
Brian Keith Mitchell is an English-born Australian politician. He is the member for Lyons in the Australian House of Representatives after winning the seat at the 2016 federal election.
John Mullahy is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2022,and is the first Labor Member to represent Glen Waverley District.
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