Geelong is a port city in Victoria,Australia,located at the eastern end of Corio Bay and the left bank of Barwon River,about 75 km (47 mi) southwest of Melbourne. With an estimated population of 282,809 in 2023,Geelong is the second largest city in the state of Victoria. It is the administrative centre for the City of Greater Geelong municipality,which is Port Phillip's only regional metropolitan area,and covers all the urban,rural and coastal reserves around the city including the entire Bellarine Peninsula and running from the plains of Lara in the north to the rolling hills of Waurn Ponds to the south,with Corio Bay to the east and the Barrabool Hills to the west.
The 1996 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 38th Parliament of Australia. It was held on 2 March 1996. All 148 seats of the House of Representatives and 40 seats of the 76-seat Senate were up for election. The centre-right Liberal/National Coalition led by Opposition Leader John Howard of the Liberal Party and coalition partner Tim Fischer of the National Party defeated the incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party government led by Prime Minister Paul Keating in a landslide victory. The Coalition won 94 seats in the House of Representatives,which is the largest number of seats held by a federal government to date,and only the second time a party had won over 90 seats at a federal election.
Robert Francis McMullan is a former Australian politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),he was a cabinet minister in the Keating government as Minister for Arts and Administrative Services (1993–1994) and Minister for Trade (1994–1996). He was a member of federal parliament for over 22 years,initially as a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory from 1988 to 1996 and then as a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2010. Prior to entering parliament he was state secretary of the ALP in Western Australia from 1975 to 1981 and national secretary from 1981 to 1988.
Brendan Patrick O'Connor is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Skills and Training from 2022 to 2024 in the Albanese ministry after having served in the same portfolio in 2013 in the Second Rudd ministry. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since 2001. He held ministerial office in the governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 to 2013,including as a member of cabinet from 2012 to 2013. He was a member of the shadow cabinet from 2013 to 2022.
Kim John Carr is an Australian former politician who served as a Senator for Victoria between 1993 and 2022. Representing the Labor Party,he was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
Peter Keaston Reith was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1982 to 1983 and from 1984 to 2001,representing the Liberal Party. He was the party's deputy leader from 1990 to 1993,and served as a minister in the Howard government.
The Division of Corio is an Australian electoral division in the state of Victoria. The division was proclaimed in 1900,and was one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first federal election. Named for Corio Bay,it has always been based on the city of Geelong,although in the past it stretched as far east as the outer western suburbs of Melbourne.
A general election was held in the Northern Territory,Australia,on 18 June 2005. The centre-left Labor Party,led by Chief Minister Clare Martin,won a second term with a landslide victory,winning six of the ten seats held by the opposition Country Liberal Party in the 25-member Northern Territory Legislative Assembly,bringing their total to 19. It was the second largest victory in any Northern Territory election. The only larger majority in the history of the Territory was in the first election,in 1974. In that contest,the CLP won 17 of the 19 seats in the chamber,and faced only two independents as opposition.
Annette Kay Hurley is a former Australian politician. Elected at the 2004 federal election,she was a Labor member of the Australian Senate from July 2005,representing the state of South Australia. She announced in July 2010 that she would not re-contest her seat at the following federal election and her six-year term ended on 30 June 2011.
Richard Donald Marles is an Australian politician and lawyer serving as the 19th and current deputy prime minister of Australia and the Minister for Defence since May 2022. He has been the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2019,having served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the division of Corio since 2007.
Terence Wynn Mulder is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2015,representing the Colac-based electorate of Polwarth. He served as Minister for Public Transport and Minister for Roads in the Baillieu and Napthine governments from 2010 to 2014.
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 1910 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 13 April 1910. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives,and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party led by Prime Minister Alfred Deakin was defeated by the opposition Australian Labor Party (ALP) led by Andrew Fisher.
Gordon Glen Denton Scholes AO was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served in the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1993,representing the Division of Corio. He served terms as Speaker of the House of Representatives (1975–1976),Minister for Defence (1983–1984),and Minister for Territories (1984–1987).
Darren Leicester Cheeseman is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2018,representing the seat of South Barwon. He previously held the federal seat of Corangamite from 2007 to 2013.
The Warrnambool railway line is a railway serving the south west of Victoria,Australia. Running from the western Melbourne suburb of Newport through the cities of Geelong and Warrnambool,the line once terminated at the coastal town of Port Fairy before being truncated to Dennington. This closed section of line has been converted into the 37 km long Port Fairy to Warrnambool Rail Trail. The line continues to see both passenger and freight services today.
Alfred Thomas Montgomery Madden Ozanne was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1910 to 1913 and 1914 to 1917,both times for the seat of Corio.
John Henry Lister was an Australian politician. He was a Nationalist Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1917 to 1929.
Sarah Moya Henderson is an Australian politician,lawyer and former journalist. She has been a Senator for Victoria since September 2019,representing the Liberal Party. She previously held the Division of Corangamite in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019.
Roderick Alexander Mackenzie OAM is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1979 to 1992,representing Geelong Province for the Labor Party (1979–1987) and then as an independent (1987–1992). A minister in the Cain government and President of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1985 to 1988,he resigned from the Labor Party in December 1987 and unsuccessfully recontested his seat in 1992 as part of the Geelong Community Alliance,a team of local independent candidates.
