The Liberal Party of Australia is a centre-right political party in Australia. It is one of the two major parties in Australian politics,the other being the Australian Labor Party. The Liberal Party was founded in 1944 as the successor to the United Australia Party. Historically the most successful political party in Australia’s history,the Liberal Party is now in opposition at a federal level,although it presently holds government in the Northern Territory,Queensland and Tasmania at a sub-national level.
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is an Australian former politician and businessman who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Wentworth from 2004 to 2018.
Malcolm Thomas Brough is an Australian former politician. He represented the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives and held ministerial office in the Howard and Turnbull governments.
Steven Michele Ciobo is a retired Australian politician who represented the Division of Moncrieff in the House of Representatives from the 2001 federal election until his retirement at the 2019 election. He was a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland,and sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. On 1 March 2019 Ciobo announced his decision to retire from politics at the 2019 federal election.
Warren George Entsch is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007 and since 2010,representing the Division of Leichhardt. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland,and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.
Warren Errol Truss is a former Australian politician who served as the 16th deputy prime minister of Australia and the minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development in the Abbott government and the Turnbull government. Truss served as the federal leader of the National Party of Australia between 2007 and 11 February 2016 when he announced his decision to retire and not contest the 2016 federal election. He was the member of the House of Representatives for Wide Bay from the 1990 election until his retirement in May 2016. Following the merger of the Queensland branches of the Nationals and Liberals,Truss was re-elected in 2010 for the Liberal National Party.
The Shadow Ministry of Tony Abbott was the opposition Coalition shadow ministry of Australia from December 2009 to September 2013,opposing the Australian Labor Party governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
Ian Douglas Macdonald is an Australian former politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1990 to 2019,representing the Liberal Party. He was Minister for Regional Services,Territories and Local Government (1998–2001) and Minister for Fisheries,Forestry and Conservation (2001–2006) in the Howard government. He was defeated at the 2019 federal election,having been the longest-serving incumbent member of parliament for the final years of his career.
Peter William Hendy is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member representing the Australian House of Representatives seat of Eden-Monaro in New South Wales from 2013 to 2016. Hendy served as Assistant Minister for Productivity in the First Turnbull Ministry between September 2015 and February 2016;and as Assistant Cabinet Secretary and Assistant Minister to the Minister for Finance from February 2016. Hendy lost his seat in the 2016 federal election to Labor candidate Mike Kelly.
Jamie Edward Briggs is an Australian former politician,who represented the House of Representatives seat of Mayo for the Liberal Party of Australia from the 2008 Mayo by-election to the 2 July 2016 federal election. Briggs was promoted from a shadow parliamentary secretary role to the outer ministry upon the 2013 election of the Abbott government. He remained in the outer ministry,though with a change in portfolio in the Turnbull government;however,he quit the ministry and moved to the backbench in late 2015 following inappropriate conduct during an official overseas trip. Briggs lost his seat in the 2016 federal election to Nick Xenophon Team candidate Rebekha Sharkie.
A leadership spill for the Liberal Party of Australia was held on 1 December 2009. The incumbent leader Malcolm Turnbull was defeated by Tony Abbott on the second ballot;Joe Hockey also stood as a candidate. Abbott thus replaced Turnbull as Leader of the Opposition,and would lead the party to the 2010 federal election.
Scott Andrew Buchholz is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) and served as an assistant minister in the Morrison government from 2018 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. He has represented the seat of Wright since the 2010 federal election,sitting with the parliamentary Liberal Party,and previously served as chief government whip in the House of Representatives in the Abbott government in 2015. He was a businessman in the transport industry before entering politics.
Karen Lesley Andrews is an Australian politician who served in the Morrison government as Minister for Industry,Science and Technology from 2018 to 2021 and as Minister for Home Affairs from 2021 to 2022. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and has represented the Queensland seat of McPherson since the 2010 federal election. Andrews sits as a Liberal and previously served as an assistant minister in the Abbott and Turnbull governments. Before entering politics she was a mechanical engineer and industrial relations consultant.
John Joseph McVeigh is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2016 to 2020,representing the Queensland seat of Groom for the Liberal Party. During the Turnbull government he served in cabinet as Minister for Regional Development,Territories and Local Government from 2017 to 2018. He was previously a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2012 to 2016 and was Minister for Agriculture,Fisheries and Forestry under Premier Campbell Newman.
The 2016 Australian federal election was a double dissolution election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia,after an extended eight-week official campaign period. It was the first double dissolution election since the 1987 election and the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting.
James Anthony McGrath is an Australian politician and Senator for Queensland since 2014. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. Following his re-election in 2022,McGrath was appointed as Shadow Assistant Minister for Finance and Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition.
Keith John Pitt is an Australian politician. He is a member of the National Party and has represented the Division of Hinkler in Queensland since the 2013 federal election. He was a member of cabinet in the Morrison government as Minister for Resources and Water and also served as an assistant minister in the Turnbull government. He was an electrical engineer and businessman before entering politics.
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.
Leadership spills of the federal parliamentary leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia were held on 21 and 24 August 2018 and were called by the incumbent leader of the party,Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The 2020 Groom by-election was held on 28 November 2020 to elect the next Member of Parliament for the division of Groom in the House of Representatives. The by-election was triggered following the resignation of incumbent Liberal National MP John McVeigh on 18 September 2020.
