Pauline Lee Hanson is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of One Nation,a right-wing populist political party. Hanson has represented Queensland in the Australian Senate since the 2016 Federal Election.
Robert Bruce McClelland is an Australian judge and former politician who has served on the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia since 2015,including as Deputy Chief Justice of that court since 2018. He was previously Attorney-General of Australia from 2007 to 2011,and a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2013,representing the Labor Party.
Eric Abetz is an Australian politician. He was a Senator for Tasmania from 1994 to 2022,representing the Liberal Party,and since March 2024 has been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Franklin electorate.
The Racial Discrimination Act 1975(Cth) is an Act of the Australian Parliament,which was enacted on 11 June 1975 and passed by the Whitlam government. The Act makes racial discrimination in certain contexts unlawful in Australia,and also overrides state and territory legislation to the extent of any inconsistency.
John Dyson Heydon is an Australian former judge and barrister who served on the High Court of Australia from 2003 to 2013 and the New South Wales Court of Appeal from 2000 to 2003,and previously served as Dean of the Sydney Law School. He retired from the bench at the constitutionally-mandated age of 70 and went on to chair the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption between 2014 and 2015,an appointment that was politically controversial due to his avowed conservatism and connections with the governing conservative party.
The solicitor-general of Australia is the country's second highest-ranking law officer,after the Attorney-General for Australia. The current officeholder is Stephen Donaghue,who took office on 16 January 2017 following the resignation of Justin Gleeson.
Brett John Mason is an Australian former politician and diplomat. He was a Liberal/Liberal National of Queensland member of the Australian Senate from 1 July 1999 to 15 April 2015,representing the state of Queensland. Mason was the Australian Ambassador to the Netherlands from September 2015 to August 2018.
Gillian Doreen Triggs is an Australian academic specialising in public international law. In 2019,she was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. In this capacity,she will serve as the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection in the team of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.
Michaelia Clare Cash is an Australian politician who served as the 38th Attorney-General of Australia from 2021 to 2022 in the Morrison government. She has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2008 and is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Major General Andrew James Molan,was an Australian politician and a senior officer in the Australian Army. He was a Liberal Party senator for New South Wales from December 2017 to June 2019 and from November 2019 until his death in January 2023.
Charles Christian Porter is an Australian former politician and lawyer who served as the 37th Attorney-General of Australia from 2017 to 2021 in the Turnbull government and the subsequent Morrison government. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Division of Pearce from 2013 to 2022 and a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. Porter also served as Leader of the House and Minister for Industrial Relations from 2019 to 2021,and Minister for Industry,Science and Technology in 2021 following his resignation as attorney-general.
Patrick Anthony Keane is an Australian judge currently serving as a non-permanent judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal since 6 April 2023,after his retirement as a Justice of the High Court of Australia. He is currently the Chair of the Expert Advisory Group set up by the Australian Government to guide reforms to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He is a former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
The 2013 Australian federal election to elect the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia took place on Saturday 7 September 2013. The centre-right Liberal/National Coalition opposition led by Opposition leader Tony Abbott of the Liberal Party of Australia and Coalition partner the National Party of Australia,led by Warren Truss,defeated the incumbent centre-left Labor Party government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in a landslide. It was also the third time in history that a party won 90 or more seats at an Australian election. Labor had been in government for six years since being elected in the 2007 election. This election marked the end of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor government and the start of the 9 year long Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Liberal-National Coalition government. Abbott was sworn in by the Governor-General,Quentin Bryce,as Australia's new prime minister on 18 September 2013,along with the Abbott Ministry. The 44th Parliament of Australia opened on 12 November 2013,with the members of the House of Representatives and territory senators sworn in. The state senators were sworn in by the next Governor-General Peter Cosgrove on 7 July 2014,with their six-year terms commencing on 1 July.
Craig Arthur Samuel Laundy is a former Australian Liberal Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Reid from 2013 until his retirement in 2019. He served as Minister for Small and Family Business,the Workplace and Deregulation in the Second Turnbull Ministry,before resigning in August 2018 following the ousting of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister. On 15 March 2019,Laundy announced he would retire from politics at the 2019 federal election.
The Turnbull government was the federal executive government of Australia led by the 29th prime minister of Australia,Malcolm Turnbull,from 2015 to 2018. It succeeded the Abbott government,which brought the Coalition to power at the 2013 Australian federal election. The government consisted of members of Australia's Liberal-Nationals Coalition. Turnbull took office by challenging his leader,Tony Abbott,in an internal leadership ballot. Warren Truss,the leader of the Nationals,served as deputy prime minister until he retired in 2016 and was replaced by Barnaby Joyce. Joyce resigned in February 2018 and the Nationals' new leader Michael McCormack became deputy prime minister. The Turnbull government concluded with Turnbull's resignation ahead of internal leadership ballot which saw him succeeded as prime minister by Scott Morrison and the Morrison government.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2016 Australian federal election held on 2 July 2016. The election was held as a consequence of a double dissolution in which both houses of parliament were dissolved. Ordinarily,only half of the senators terms end at each election. In this case,all 76 senators were elected. At the first sitting following the election,half of the senators representing each of the six states of Australia were allocated six-year terms to end on 30 June 2022,with the remainder allocated three-year terms to end on 30 June 2019. The terms of senators from the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory end on the day of the next 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.
Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975,deals with offensive behaviour "because of race,colour or national or ethnic origin" in Australia. It is a section of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975,which was passed by the Australian Parliament during the term of the Whitlam government and makes racial discrimination unlawful in Australia. Section 18C was added by the Keating government in 1995. The Section has been controversial and subject to much debate.
Amanda Jane Stoker is an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 2018 until 2022. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) and sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. She was appointed to the Senate after the retirement of George Brandis. Stoker held the ministerial portfolios of Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General,Assistant Minister for Industrial Relations and Assistant Minister for Women in the Morrison government. Stoker was unsuccessful in her re-election bid in the 2022 federal election and departed the Senate on 30 June 2022.
The Moderates,also known as Modern Liberals,Small-L Liberals or Liberal Left,are members,supporters,voters and a faction of the Australian Liberal Party who are typically economically,socially and environmentally liberal. The faction has been described as centre to centre-right.
