Eric Abetz is a German-born Australian former politician who was a Senator for Tasmania from 1994 to 2022,representing the Liberal Party. He was the Minister for Employment and the Leader of the Government in the Senate in the Abbott government from 2013 to 2015. He previously also served as Special Minister of State in the Howard government from 2001 to 2006 and as Minister for Fisheries,Forestry and Conservation from 2006 to 2007.
Michael Ferguson is an Australian politician who is currently the Deputy Premier of Tasmania since April 2022. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the Division of Bass since the 2010 state election. Ferguson was appointed to cabinet after his party's victory in the 2014 state election and has served continuously as Minister in a range of portfolios including Finance,Health,Infrastructure,Transport,State Growth and Science and Technology. He is also the Leader of the House.
The Tasmanian Government is the democratic administrative authority of the state of Tasmania,Australia. The leader of the party or coalition with the confidence of the House of Assembly,the lower house of the Parliament of Tasmania,is invited by the governor of Tasmania to form government. The head of government is the premier of Tasmania.
Launceston Church Grammar School is an Anglican co-educational private school in Launceston,Tasmania,Australia for Early Learning through to Grade 12.
Marinus Theodoor"Rene" Hidding is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member for the Division of Lyons in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1996 until his resignation in 2019. From 2002 until 2006 he was also leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition in Tasmania.
John Blyth Hayes was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1923 to 1947. He was President of the Senate from 1938 to 1941. Before entering federal politics,he had been a member of the Parliament of Tasmania from 1913 to 1923 and served as Premier of Tasmania for almost exactly one year,from 1922 to 1923.
William Edward Felix Hodgman is an Australian diplomat and former politician who has been the High Commissioner of Australia to Singapore since February 2021. He was the 45th Premier of Tasmania and a member for the Division of Franklin in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from the 2002 state election until his resignation in January 2020. He became premier following the 2014 state election,having been Leader of the Opposition since 2006. He was re-elected to a second term in government following victory in the 2018 state election.
Jeremy Page Rockliff is an Australian politician and farmer,and the 47th and current premier of Tasmania since 2022. He has been the leader of the Tasmanian division of the Liberal Party of Australia since 2022 and a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the division of Braddon since the 2002. He was previously the 20th deputy premier of Tasmania from 2014 to 2022. Since the electoral defeat of the Coalition government in New South Wales in March 2023,Rockliff is the only incumbent non-Labor leader of an Australian state government.
James Allan Guy,CBE was an Australian politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in both the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Federal House of Representatives,before leaving to represent the United Australia Party and then the Liberal Party of Australia in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. His father,James Guy,had also been a Senator.
John Singleton Clemons was an Australian lawyer and politician. He served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1901 to 1914,representing the Free Trade Party until 1909 and then the Liberal Party. He served as an honorary minister in the government of Joseph Cook from 1913 to 1914.
John Edward Marriott was an Australian politician.
Peter Carl Gutwein is an Australian politician who was the 46th premier of Tasmania from 2020 to 2022. He was a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 2002 to 2022,representing the electorate of Bass. He succeeded Will Hodgman as leader of the Liberal Party and Tasmanian Premier on 20 January 2020.
Jacqueline Anne Petrusma is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 2010 to 2022,representing the electorate of Franklin,and served as a minister in the governments of Will Hodgman,Peter Gutwein and Jeremy Rockliff.
Sir Eardley Max Bingham,was an Australian politician. He was Deputy Premier and Opposition Leader of Tasmania,who represented the electorate of Denison for the Liberal Party in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1969 to 1984.
Jonathon Duniam is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has served as a Senator for Tasmania since the 2016 federal election. He served as an assistant minister in the Morrison government from 2019 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. Prior to entering parliament Duniam was a political staffer,including as deputy chief of staff to Tasmanian premier Will Hodgman.
Ross Anthony Hart is a former Australian politician. He was the Australian Labor Party member for Bass from the 2016 federal election in which he defeated the sitting member,the Liberal Party of Australia's Andrew Nikolic with a 10.6 point swing against him. He lost the seat to Liberal Bridget Archer at the 2019 election.
The Tasmanian Liberal Party,officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Tasmanian Division) and more simply as the Tasmanian Liberals,is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Tasmania. The party currently governs in Tasmania as the only Liberal government in Australia,either state or territory,or Federal level. The party is part of the federal Liberal Party of Australia,currently in opposition.
The Tasmanian Labor Party,officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as Tasmanian Labor,is the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party. It has been one of the most successful state Labor parties in Australia in terms of electoral success.
The University of Tasmania Liberal Club (TULC) is a politically affiliated club based at the University of Tasmania. The club is closely tied with the Liberal Party of Australia and at times through its history has been a constitutional branch of the Tasmanian Division. The club is the fourth oldest of its kind in Australia after the University of Melbourne Liberal Club founded in 1925,the Sydney University Liberal Club in 1933 and the University of Western Australia Liberal Club in 1944. The club hosts policy debates,annual dinners,student election campaigns,and guest speaker events with members of parliament. It is an affiliate of the Australian Liberal Students' Federation and the Tasmania University Union.
The Rockliff ministry is the current ministry of the Tasmanian Government,led by Jeremy Rockliff of the Tasmanian Liberals. It was formed on 8 April 2022,after Rockliff was elected unopposed as leader of the Liberal Party and sworn as the state's 47th Premier by Governor Barbara Baker. The ministry replaced the Second Gutwein ministry,after former Premier Peter Gutwein resigned from his position and quit politics.
