In the Parliament of Australia,a casual vacancy arises when a member of either the Senate or the House of Representatives:
The Division of Dickson is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland,Australia.
Vicky Elizabeth Darling is a Labor politician elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in September 2006 as the member for Sandgate.
The electoral district of Inala is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in south-west Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Inala,Ellen Grove,Forest Lake,Doolandella,Durack,Wacol,Richlands and parts of Oxley. It borders the electoral districts of Mount Ommaney,Miller,Algester,Jordan,Bundamba and Moggill.
Ferny Grove is one of the 89 electoral districts for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Australia. Located in northwest Brisbane,it is named for the suburb of Ferny Grove. It was first created in 1992,and was represented by Labor from its creation until the 2012 election,in which the LNP won with a 59.5 percent two-party vote.
Mark Lionel Furner is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of Australian Senate from 2008 to 2014,representing the state of Queensland. Since the 2015 Queensland state election,he has represented Ferny Grove in the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
William Douglas Hewitt was an Australian politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Bertie ("Bert") Richard Milliner was an Australian trade unionist,politician and Senator,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He would have been a minor figure in Australia's political history but for the events that followed his sudden death. Those circumstances contributed to the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis,which culminated in the dismissal of the Prime Minister,Gough Whitlam,by the Governor-General,Sir John Kerr.
Norman Francis Jones,known as Gerry Jones,was an Australian politician. Born at Roma,Queensland,he was a research assistant before becoming state organiser of the Queensland Labor Party 1967–1972. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the member for Everton at the 1972 state election,but was defeated in the landslide Labor loss of 1974. He was a Labor Party Executive Officer 1976–1977 and State Secretary 1977–1980. In 1980,he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for Queensland. He remained in the Senate until his retirement in 1996.
The 2009 Queensland state election was held on 21 March 2009 to elect all 89 members of the Legislative Assembly,a unicameral parliament.
Geoffrey James Wilson is an Australian politician. Born in Culcairn in New South Wales,he was a barrister and union official. In 1998,he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Labor member for Ferny Grove,which he has represented since. He was appointed Minister for Mines and Energy in September 2006 by Peter Beattie,and continued in that post after Anna Bligh took over as Premier a year later. Following the 2009 election,he was named Minister for Education and Training. In the February 2011 reshuffle,he was appointed Minister for Health. He served in that post until Anna Bligh resigned following Labor's loss at 2012 election,in which Wilson lost his seat.
Heinrich Palaszczuk is a former Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland,and minister of the Beattie Government of Queensland. He was elected as the member for Archerfield in 1984,and held that seat until his election as the member for Inala in 1992. Palaszczuk retired from politics in 2006,and was succeeded in his seat of Inala by his daughter Annastacia Palaszczuk,who has been the Premier of Queensland since 2015.
Neville George Warburton was an Australian politician from Queensland,who served as leader of the opposition from 1984 to 1988,and as a minister in the Goss Ministry from 1989 to 1992.
James Larcombe (1884–1957) was a Labor politician from Queensland,Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
The 2015 Queensland state election was held on 31 January 2015 to elect all 89 members of the unicameral Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
Dale Shuttleworth is an Australian Liberal National politician who was the member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Ferny Grove from 2012 to 2015,having defeated the Minister of Health Geoff Wilson at the 2012 state election.
Brian David Valentine Lindsay is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1974 until 1977,representing the electorate of Everton.
The United Australia Party (UAP),formerly known as Clive Palmer's United Australia Party and the Palmer United Party (PUP),is an Australian political party formed by mining magnate Clive Palmer in April 2013. It was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission in 2017,but revived and re-registered in 2018. It brands itself as a revival of the original United Australia Party,which had been the main non-Labor federal party from 1931 to 1945.
The 2017 Queensland state election was held on 25 November 2017 to elect all 93 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland,the unicameral Parliament of Queensland.
Michael Craig Berkman is an Australian politician and the member for Maiwar in Brisbane's inner-west. Berkman has been the member for Maiwar since the 2017 Queensland state elections,when he became the first Greens member to be elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. He is the first member for Maiwar,after the electorate was created from the merger of the former Indooroopilly and Mt Coot-tha electorates.
