The Australian Democrats is a centre to centre-left political party in Australia.
Cheryl Zena Kernot is an Australian politician, academic, and political activist. She was a member of the Australian Senate representing Queensland for the Australian Democrats from 1990 to 1997, and the fifth leader of the Australian Democrats from 1993 to 1997. In 1997, she resigned from the Australian Democrats, joined the Australian Labor Party, and won the seat of Dickson at the 1998 federal election. She was defeated at the 2001 federal election. Kernot was an unsuccessful independent candidate to represent New South Wales in the Australian Senate in the 2010 federal election.
The Australian Progressive Alliance (APA) was a minor "small-l-liberal" party in Australia, formed by Meg Lees, an independent senator and former leader of the Australian Democrats, in April 2003. The party ceased to operate and was deregistered in June 2005 following Senator Lees's defeat at the 2004 election and the expiry of her term.
Meg Heather Lees was a member of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 2005, representing the state of South Australia. She represented the Australian Democrats from 1990 to 2002, and was her party's leader from 1997 – 2001. After being deposed by Natasha Stott Despoja, she quit the party to sit as an independent senator in 2002, adopting the party designation Australian Progressive Alliance from 2003 until her electoral defeat in 2005. As party leader, she controversially facilitated passage of the Howard Government's Goods and Services Tax (GST).
George Shenton was a pharmacist, merchant, banker and philanthropist in colonial Perth, Western Australia.
Kernot was a railway station on the Wonthaggi line located on the Bass Coast, Victoria. The station was originally called "McKenzie" and opened with the Wonthaggi railway line in 1910, but was renamed Kernot in 1915. It was located within walking distance of the Kernot General Store. The station closed with the line in 1978.
Glen Forbes was a railway station on the Wonthaggi railway line, located on the Bass Coast, Victoria, Australia. The station opened with the line in 1910 and was originally called "Kernot". The name was changed to Glen Forbes in 1915. The station operated until the early 1970s, shortly before the closure of the Wonthaggi line.
William Charles Kernot, was an Australian engineer, first professor of engineering at the University of Melbourne and president of the Royal Society of Victoria.
The following lists events that happened during 1845 in Australia.
The Shire of Bass was a local government area about 120 kilometres (75 mi) south-southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 526 square kilometres (203.1 sq mi), and existed from 1871 until 1994.
Corridors of Power is an Australian comedy television series that first screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2001.
Anthony Charles "Tony" Smith was an Australian politician. He was educated at the University of Queensland before becoming a fitter and turner and a marine engineer. He later became a barrister and then a primary producer. In 1996, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Liberal member for Dickson. He did not receive Liberal endorsement for the 1998 election and contested it as an independent, gaining 9% of the primary vote. His candidacy enabled Labor candidate Cheryl Kernot, formerly leader of the Democrats, to win the seat.
Kernot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Melbourne School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne is the oldest engineering faculty in Australia. It was established in 1861, 8 years after the establishment of the University of Melbourne, and was made a Faculty in 1889. It teaches a substantial number of undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as being a significant centre for engineering research, employing many leaders in their fields. In 2011 the Melbourne School of Engineering celebrates its sesquicentenary and the School developed a large range of events and activities which are listed on the 150th Anniversary Website.
William Thwaites (1853–1907) was a civil engineer working in Melbourne, Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was responsible for the design and supervision of construction of Melbourne's sewerage system.
Geelong East was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1985. It was located south of the city of Geelong, defined in the Victorian Electoral Act, 1858 as:
Mount Mueller is a mountain of the Great Dividing Range, located in Victoria, Australia. Mount Mueller has an elevation of 1,460 metres (4,790 ft) AHD .
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 25 March; 9, 22 April 1874 to the elections of 11 May 1877. Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.
Joseph Newell Reeson (1868-1953) was an Australian civil engineer who pioneered the use of welding for large steel structures.
