The Unity Party was a small multiculturist party in Australia,formed in 1997 and primarily active in the state of New South Wales. It was formed with the aim of opposing the rise of the controversial anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson. Although initially billed as a party to unite Australians of all ethnicities against racism,Unity failed to draw significant support outside Australia's East Asian ethnic communities. After the demise of Pauline Hanson as a political force,Unity has accordingly shifted its focus onto ethnic community affairs at a local government level.
The Greens New South Wales,commonly known as Greens NSW,is a green political party in New South Wales and a member of the Australian Greens. First formed in 1991,the Greens NSW began as a state-level party before joining with other green parties in Australia to create the current federated structure.
Marrickville was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was an urban electorate in Sydney's inner west,centred on the suburb of Marrickville from which it took its name. At the time of its abolition it also included the suburbs of Camperdown,Darlington,Enmore,Lewisham,Newtown,Petersham,Stanmore and parts of Dulwich Hill and Erskineville as well as the University of Sydney.
Carmel Mary Tebbutt is an Australian former politician. She was the Labor Party Member for the former seat of Marrickville in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly until the 2015 election and was Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 2008 to 2011. She was also Minister for Health in the Keneally Government. She is the first woman to hold the position of Deputy Premier of New South Wales.
Ian Cohen is a former Australian politician and member of the Greens New South Wales. Cohen was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1995 as its first Green member. He retired from parliament in 2011.
Elections for the 54th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday,24 March 2007. The entire Legislative Assembly and half of the Legislative Council was up for election. The Labor Party led by Morris Iemma won a fourth four-year term against the Liberal-National coalition led by Peter Debnam.
Balmain is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's Inner West. It is currently represented by Jamie Parker of the Greens New South Wales.
Verity Helen Firth is the Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Technology Sydney. She was the chief executive officer of the Public Education Foundation in Australia and is a former politician.
Ron Hoenig is an Australian barrister who served as Mayor of the City of Botany Bay in New South Wales from 1981 to 2012,a record 31 years,before standing down and winning the 25 August Heffron by-election in the state parliament for the Labor Party.
Arthur Edward Greenup was a trade unionist and politician in New South Wales,Australia.
Elections to the 55th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday,26 March 2011. The 16-year-incumbent Labor Party government led by Premier Kristina Keneally was defeated in a landslide by the Liberal–National Coalition opposition led by Barry O'Farrell. Labor suffered a two-party swing of 16.4 points,the largest against a sitting government at any level in Australia since World War II. From 48 seats at dissolution,Labor was knocked down to 20 seats—the worst defeat of a sitting government in New South Wales history,and one of the worst of a state government in Australia since federation. The Coalition picked up a 34-seat swing to win a strong majority,with 69 seats–the largest majority government,in terms of percentage of seats controlled,in NSW history. It is only the third time since 1941 that a NSW Labor government has been defeated.
Bruce Neville Notley-Smith,is an Australian politician and former Mayor of the City of Randwick,and was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Coogee for the Liberal Party from 26 March 2011 to 23 March 2019.
Janette Louise Barham is an Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 2011 and 2017.
A general election for the 56th Parliament of New South Wales (NSW) was held on Saturday 28 March 2015. Members were elected to all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly using optional preferential voting. Members were also elected to 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council using optional preferential proportional representation voting. The election was conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission.
The Iemma ministry (2007–08) or Second Iemma ministry is the 90th ministry of the Government of New South Wales,and was led by the 40th Premier Morris Iemma. It was the second and subsequent of two occasions when Iemma was Premier.
George Daniel Clark was an Australian politician.
Mehreen Saeed Faruqi is an Australian politician and former engineer who has been a Senator for New South Wales since 15 August 2018,representing the Greens. She was chosen to fill a casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Lee Rhiannon,before being elected in her own right in 2019. She had previously served in the New South Wales Legislative Council between June 2013 and August 2018. Since June 2022,Faruqi has served as Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens.
Jenny Leong,an Australian politician,is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Newtown for the Greens since 2015. Leong is the first person to represent Newtown in its current form,as it was created for the 2015 election.
James Henry Griffin is an Australian politician. Griffin has served as the New South Wales Minister for Environment and Heritage in the Perrottet ministry since December 2021. He is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electoral district of Manly for the Liberal Party. Griffin was elected on 8 April 2017 at the Manly state by-election held to replace the previous member,former Premier of New South Wales Mike Baird.
Leichhardt,an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales,had two incarnations,from 1894 to 1920 and from 1927 to 1962.
