Francis Michael Forde was an Australian politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Australia from 6 to 13 July 1945. He was deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1932 to 1946 and served as prime minister in a caretaker capacity following the death of John Curtin. He is the shortest-serving prime minister in Australia's history.
Kim Christian Beazley is an Australian former politician and diplomat. Since 2022 he has served as the Chairman of the Australian War Memorial. Previously,he was leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 1996 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006,having previously been a cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments. After leaving parliament,he served as ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2016 and governor of Western Australia from 2018 to 2022.
Henry Daglish was an Australian politician who was the sixth premier of Western Australia and the first from the Labor Party,serving from 10 August 1904 to 25 August 1905. Daglish was born in Ballarat,Victoria,and studied at the University of Melbourne. In 1882,he worked as a mechanical engineer but soon switched to working in the Victorian public service. He first stood for election in 1896 but failed to win the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Melbourne South. He then moved to Subiaco,Western Australia,where he found work as a chief clerk in the Western Australian Police Department. In 1900,Daglish was elected to the Subiaco Municipal Council and in April the following year,he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as the member for the newly created seat of Subiaco,becoming one of six Labor members in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The party elected him as its whip,and he resigned from the Subiaco council on 1 May 1901. On 1 December 1902,Daglish was sworn in as mayor of Subiaco,having been elected the previous month.
The Christian Democratic Party (CDP) was a Christian democratic political party in Australia,founded in 1977,under the name Call to Australia Party,by a group of Christian ministers in New South Wales. One of the co-founders,Fred Nile,a Congregational Church minister,ran as their upper house candidate in the NSW State election. The Christian Democratic Party's platform espoused social conservatism. It changed its name in 1998.
Norman Frederick Moore is a former Western Australian politician. From 2008 to 2013 he was Minister for Mines and Petroleum;Fisheries;Electoral Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council. From 12 to 29 June 2012,he was the Minister for Justice. He held a seat for the Electoral region of Mining and Pastoral and is a member of the Liberal Party.
The Electoral district of Perth is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. Perth is named for the capital city of Western Australia whose central business district falls within its borders. It is one of the oldest electorates in Western Australia,with its first member having been elected in the inaugural 1890 elections of the Legislative Assembly.
Norman Kirkwood Ewing,Australian politician,was a member of three parliaments:the Western Australian Legislative Assembly,the Australian Senate,and the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He became a Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania,and was Administrator of Tasmania from November 1923 to June 1924.
Norman Richard Marlborough is a former Australian politician.
John Barkell Holman was an Australian politician who served in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1901 to 1921 and 1923 to 1925.
John Charles Arthur Hyde was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the Geelong Football Club.
Henry Lyall Hall was an Australian politician,serving as the member for Perth in the Legislative Assembly from 1897 until 1901.
Cecil Allen Blanchard was an Australian federal politician.
This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly between the 1914 election and the 1917 election,together known as the Ninth Parliament. The re-election of Premier John Scaddan's Labor Government with a 26-24 majority in 1914 was tempered when,a year later,Labor member Joseph Gardiner's seat was declared vacant on account of his non-attendance and a Liberal was elected in his stead,and Labor became a minority government when on 18 December 1915,Edward Johnston resigned from the Labor Party and became an independent. On 27 July 1916,the Scaddan Ministry was defeated and the Liberals' Frank Wilson became the new Premier.
The 2013 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 9 March 2013 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council.
The 2013 Australian federal election to elect the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia took place on 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.
Malcolm John Bryce was an Australian politician,who served as a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1971 to 1988,representing the seat of Ascot. He was deputy leader of the Labor Party from 1977 to 1980 and from 1981 to 1988,and served as deputy premier under Brian Burke.
Mathieson Harry Jacoby was an Australian politician who twice represented the seat of Swan in the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia,from 1901 to 1905 and then again from 1908 to 1911. He was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1904 to 1905. Outside politics Jacoby was a noted viticulturist,one of the pioneers of the West Australian wine industry.
John Ewing was an Australian politician who served in both houses of the Parliament of Western Australia. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1901 to 1904 and again from 1905 to 1908,and then served as a member of the Legislative Council from 1916 until his death.
The 45th Parliament of Australia was a meeting of the legislative branch of the Australian federal government,composed of the Australian Senate and the Australian House of Representatives. It met in Canberra from 30 August 2016 to 4 April 2019. The 2016 general election held on 2 July gave the Coalition of the Liberal and National Parties control of the House,albeit with a slimmer majority than the 44th Parliament,allowing their leader Malcolm Turnbull to stay in office as the 29th Prime Minister of Australia. During the term of the parliament,the government slipped into minority due to defections and by-elections. The leadership of the government also changed during the parliament,when Scott Morrison replaced Turnbull as Liberal Leader and Prime Minister in August 2018. The 45th Parliament was officially prorogued by the Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove at 8:29 a.m. on 11 April 2019,and the House of Representatives dissolved at 8:30 a.m.
