Francis Michael Forde was an Australian politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Australia from 6 to 13 July 1945,in a caretaker capacity following the death of John Curtin. He was deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1932 to 1946 and is the shortest-serving prime minister in Australia's history.
The speaker of the Australian House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Australian House of Representatives,the lower house of the Parliament of Australia. The counterpart in the upper house is the president of the Senate. The office of the speakership was established in 1901 by section 35 of the Constitution of Australia. The primary responsibilities of the office is to oversee house debates,determine which members may speak,maintain order and the parliamentary and ministerial codes of conduct during sessions and uphold all rules and standing orders. The current speaker of the House of Representatives is Milton Dick,who was elected on 26 July 2022.
Anna Elizabeth Burke is an Australian former politician who served as the 28th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2012 to 2013. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),she was the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Chisholm from 1998 to 2016.
Harry Vernon Quick was an Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1993 until 2007,representing the electorate of Franklin in Tasmania. He sat as a member of the Labor Party from 1993 to 2007,when he was expelled from the party for failing to pay his membership dues. An outspoken maverick MP,he did not contest the 2007 federal election.
Peter Neil Slipper is an Australian former politician and bishop who served as the 27th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2011 to 2012. A member of the Liberal Party of Australia for most of his career,he was the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Fisher from 1984 to 1987 and again from 1993 to 2013. He is the current bishop in Australia for the Catholic Apostolic Church of Australia (ICAB) a mission of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church and an honorary consul for Brazil in Australia.
Henry Alfred Jenkins AM was an Australian politician and medical doctor. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served in the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1985,including as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1983 to 1986. His son Harry Jenkins Jr. also served as Speaker.
The Division of Scullin is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne,including Epping,Lalor,Mill Park,South Morang,Thomastown,Wollert and Bundoora.
Lang Labor was a faction of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) consisting of the supporters of Jack Lang,who served two terms as Premier of New South Wales and was the party's state leader from 1923 to 1939. It controlled the New South Wales branch of the ALP throughout most of the 1920s and 1930s. The faction broke away to form separate parliamentary parties on several occasions and stood competing candidates against the ALP in state and federal elections.
Harold Norman Holgate AO was an Australian politician. He was premier of Tasmania from 1981 to 1982,serving as state leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) during that period. He succeeded Doug Lowe as party leader and premier during internal conflict over the Franklin Dam controversy,leading the ALP to defeat at the 1982 state election just over six months after taking office.
Robert James Murray Oakeshott is a retired Australian politician. He was the independent Member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Lyne in New South Wales from 2008,when he won the 2008 Lyne by-election,until his retirement in 2013. Oakeshott described his views as economically conservative and socially progressive.
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.
The 2010 Australian federal election was held on Saturday,21 August 2010 to elect members of the 43rd Parliament of Australia. The incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard won a second term against the opposition centre-right Liberal Party of Australia led by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and Coalition partner the National Party of Australia,led by Warren Truss,after Labor formed a minority government with the support of three independent MPs and one Australian Greens MP.
Robert George Mitchell is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since August 2010,representing the electorate of McEwen. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2002 to 2006,and was Second Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2013 to 2022.
James Francis Cope was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served in the House of Representatives from 1955 to 1975. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1973 to 1975,resigning abruptly in dramatic circumstances,when he was in the Chair presiding over question time,when he came into conflict with Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Scullin in Victoria (Australia) on 8 February 1986. This was triggered by the resignation of Labor Party MP and Speaker Harry Jenkins to become Australian Ambassador to Spain.
Nathan Murphy is an Australian politician. On 9 March 2010,he was appointed to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Labor member for Northern Metropolitan Region to replace Theo Theophanous,who retired.
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.
Stephen Patrick Jones is an Australian politician who represents the Division of Whitlam for the Australian Labor Party. He was elected at the 2010 Australian federal election and is the current Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services.
Andrew James Giles is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since September 2013,representing the Division of Scullin,Victoria. He is currently the Minister for Skills and Training in the Albanese ministry. Giles joined the ALP when he was eighteen,and –prior to his election to Parliament –worked as a principal lawyer at Slater and Gordon in Melbourne,practising in employment law. Giles previously served as Shadow Assistant Minister for Schools between 2016 and 2019,and Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Shadow Minister for Cities and Urban Infrastructure from 2019 to 2022. Giles also previously served as one of the two federal parliamentary convenors of the Labor Left faction,along with Pat Conroy.
Dugald Milton Dick is an Australian politician serving as the 32nd and current speaker of the Australian House of Representatives since 2022. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),he has been the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Oxley,covering Brisbane's south-western suburbs,since 2016. He previously served on the Brisbane City Council from 2008 to 2016 and as an ALP state secretary from 2004 to 2008.
