The National Party of Australia,also known as The Nationals or The Nats,is a centre-right,agrarian political party in Australia. Traditionally representing graziers,farmers,and regional voters generally,it began as the Australian Country Party in 1920 at a federal level.
The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia,the lower house being the House of Representatives.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA),also known as Commonwealth Bank or simply CommBank,is an Australian multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand,Asia,the United States,and the United Kingdom. It provides a variety of financial services,including retail,business and institutional banking,funds management,superannuation,insurance,investment,and broking services. The Commonwealth Bank is the largest Australian listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange as of July 2024,with brands including Bankwest,Colonial First State Investments,ASB Bank,Commonwealth Securities (CommSec) and Commonwealth Insurance (CommInsure). Its former constituent parts were the Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia,the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia,and the Commonwealth Development Bank.
Eric Abetz is an Australian politician. He was a Senator for Tasmania from 1994 to 2022,representing the Liberal Party,and since March 2024 has been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Franklin electorate.
William Daniel Heffernan,is an Australian former politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Senate representing the state of New South Wales from September 1996 to May 2016.
Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce is an Australian politician who was the leader of the National Party of Australia from 2016 to 2018 and again from 2021 to 2022. Joyce was the 17th deputy prime minister of Australia during both his leadership tenures under Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull from 2016 to 2018 and Prime Minister Scott Morrison from 2021 to 2022.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 1993. Half of the state senators had been allocated a long term following the double dissolution election in 1987 and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1993;the other half of the state senators were elected at the March 1990 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1996. The territory senators were elected at the March 1990 election and their terms ended at the next federal election,which was March 1993.
The Division of New England is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
Fiona Joy Nash is a former Australian politician. She served as a Senator for New South Wales from 2005 to 2017,representing the National Party. She was the party's deputy leader from 2016 to 2017 and was a cabinet minister in the Turnbull government.
Nigel Gregory Scullion is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for the Northern Territory from 2001 to 2019. He was a member of the Country Liberal Party (CLP) and sat with the National Party in federal parliament. He held ministerial office under four prime ministers.
The Golden Fleece,originally known as Shearing at Newstead,is an 1894 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts. The painting depicts sheep shearers plying their trade in a timber shearing shed at Newstead North,a sheep station near Inverell on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. The same shed is depicted in another of Roberts' works,Shearing Shed,Newstead (1894).
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 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.
Sam Dastyari is an Australian former politician,who from 2013 to 2018 represented New South Wales in the Australian Senate as a member of the Australian Labor Party. Dastyari was previously General Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Labor Party. He was the first person of Iranian origin and Azerbaijani descent to sit in the Australian Parliament. As a Senator,Dastyari was the subject of a Chinese-related donations scandal,which eventually led to his resignation from the Senate on 25 January 2018.
Barry James O'Sullivan is an Australian politician who was a senator for Queensland from 11 February 2014 until 30 June 2019. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) and sat with the Nationals in federal parliament. A former police detective,grazier,property developer and LNP executive treasurer,O'Sullivan was appointed by the Queensland Parliament to the Senate seat vacated by Barnaby Joyce,who had resigned to contest the House of Representatives seat of New England at the 2013 federal election. He was elected to a three-year term at the 2016 federal election.
Matthew James Canavan is an Australian politician. He was elected to the Australian Senate representing the state of Queensland at the 2013 federal election for the term beginning 1 July 2014. He won re-election at the 2016 election and again at the 2022 Australian federal election. He was the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia between February 2016 and February 2020. He is a member of the Liberal National Party and sits with National Party in federal parliament.
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.
Jordon Alexander Steele-John is a British-born Australian politician and disability rights advocate. He is a member of the Australian Senate as a representative of Western Australia,and is a member of the Australian Greens.
Starting in July 2017,the eligibility of several members of the Parliament of Australia was questioned. Referred to by some as a "constitutional crisis",fifteen sitting politicians were ruled ineligible by the High Court of Australia or resigned pre-emptively. The situation arose from section 44(i) of the Australian Constitution,which prohibits parliamentarians from having allegiance to a foreign power,especially citizenship. On that basis,the High Court had previously held that dual citizens are ineligible for election unless they have taken "reasonable steps" to renounce the foreign citizenship before nomination.
The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking,Superannuation and Financial Services Industry,also known as the Banking Royal Commission and the Hayne Royal Commission,was a royal commission established on 14 December 2017 by the Australian government pursuant to the Royal Commissions Act 1902 to inquire into and report on misconduct in the banking,superannuation,and financial services industry. The establishment of the commission followed revelations in the media of a culture of greed within several Australian financial institutions. A subsequent parliamentary inquiry recommended a royal commission,noting the lack of regulatory intervention by the relevant government authorities,and later revelations that financial institutions were involved in money laundering for drug syndicates,turned a blind eye to terrorism financing,and ignored statutory reporting responsibilities and impropriety in foreign exchange trading.
