The Australian Democrats is a centrist political party in Australia. Founded in 1977 from a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement,both of which were descended from Liberal Party splinter groups,it was Australia's largest minor party from its formation in 1977 through to 2004 and frequently held the balance of power in the Senate during that time.
The 1998 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 39th Parliament of Australia. It was held on 3 October 1998. All 148 seats of the House of Representatives and 40 seats of the 76 seat Senate were up for election. The incumbent centre-right Liberal/National Coalition government led by Prime Minister John Howard of the Liberal Party and coalition partner Tim Fischer of the National Party defeated the centre-left Australian Labor Party opposition led by Opposition Leader Kim Beazley,despite losing the nationwide popular and two-party preferred vote. However,the Australian Labor Party gained seats compared to the previous election.
Margaret Elizabeth Reid is an Australian former politician who served as a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) from 1981 to 2003,representing the Liberal Party. She held her seat for nearly 22 years,winning eight consecutive elections. Reid is the first woman to have served as President of the Senate,Australia's third-highest political office.
In the Parliament of Australia,a casual vacancy arises when a member of either the Senate or the House of Representatives:
Janine Winton Haines,AM was an Australian politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 1977 to 1978 and again from 1981 to 1990. She represented the Australian Democrats,and served as the party's leader from 1986 to 1990,becoming the first female federal parliamentary leader of an Australian political party. She was pivotal in "shaping the Australian Democrats into a powerful political entity that held the balance of power in the Senate".
Malcolm Arthur Colston was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1975 to 1999. He was a member of the Labor Party until 1996,when he resigned to sit as an independent following a dispute over his candidacy for Deputy President of the Senate. Colston was a schoolteacher before entering politics,and held a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Queensland.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1996 to 1999. Half of the state senators had been elected at the March 1993 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1999;the other half of the state senators were elected at the March 1996 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 2002. The territory senators were elected at the March 1996 election and their terms ended at the next federal election,which was October 1998.
Robert Leslie Woods is an Australian former politician. He was a Liberal Senator for the state of New South Wales in Australia between 1994 and 1997. Woods was previously a Member of the Australian House of Representatives as the Liberal member for Lowe between 1987 and 1993. Woods served as a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services between 1996 and 1997.
John Raymond Martyr was an Australian politician.
Arthur Winston Crane is a former Australian politician. Born in Perth,Western Australia,he was a farmer and grazier,and served as Senior Vice-President of the National Farmers' Federation. In 1990,he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Liberal Senator from Western Australia. For the 2001 election,he was demoted to fourth place on the Liberal ticket,replaced by the State President of the WA Liberal Party,David Johnston. Crane was defeated;his term expired in 2002.
George Conrad Hannan was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Victoria from 1956 to 1965 and 1970 to 1974. He was a member of the Liberal Party for all but the last few months of his career,and was known as a strident anti-communist. He lost Liberal preselection in 1973,and the following year announced the formation of a new social conservative political party,the National Liberal Party. He was unsuccessful in his bid for re-election at the 1974 election and dissolved the party shortly after.
Sir Kenneth James Morris,was an Australian politician who served as Deputy Premier of Queensland from 1957 to 1962.
William Russell was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was a liberal member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1895 to 1900 and an Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly (Burra) (1901-1902) and the Australian Senate (1906-1912).
Edward William Mattner,was an Australian politician and soldier who served as a Senator for South Australia from 1944 to 1946 and 1950 to 1968. He was President of the Senate from 1951 to 1953.
John Hartley Chamberlain was an Australian politician. He served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1951 until his death in 1953,representing the Liberal Party. He was also a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1934 to 1951,briefly serving as deputy opposition leader. He was a farmer at Latrobe prior to entering politics,having taken up land as a soldier settler.
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1990 Australian federal election. The election was held on 24 March 1990.
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1996 Australian federal election. The election was held on 2 March 1996.
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.
The Australian Greens held a number of leadership elections and deputy leadership elections. The most recent was held in 2022.
The Tasmanian Nationals are a political party in the Australian state of Tasmania,aligned with the National Party of Australia. The party is not currently registered with the Tasmanian Electoral Commission,and is not separately registered with the Australian Electoral Commission,unlike the other state branches of the Nationals.
