Laurence John "Laurie" Brereton is an Australian former politician who was a state minister,a federal member of cabinet,and kingmaker in the election of several Australian Labor Party leaders,including Paul Keating and Mark Latham. He was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1990 to October 2004,representing the Division of Kingsford Smith,New South Wales. He is credited with building Sydney's controversial monorail.
Martin John Ferguson is an Australian former Labor Party politician who was the Member of the House of Representatives for Batman from 1996 to 2013. He served as Minister for Resources and Energy and Minister for Tourism in the Rudd and Gillard governments from 2007 to 2013.
Kim John Carr is an Australian former politician who served as a Senator for Victoria between 1993 and 2022. Representing the Labor Party,he was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
John Philip Faulkner is an Australian former Labor Party politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1989 to 2015. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Keating,Rudd and Gillard governments.
The Division of Kingsford Smith is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division is located south and south-east of Sydney CBD,comprising mostly City of Randwick and the suburbs of Bayside Council that were governed by the former City of Botany Bay.
Belinda Jane Neal is a former Australian federal politician. She was a Member of the House of Representatives representing the electorate of Robertson between 2007 and 2010;and representing the state of New South Wales in the Senate from 1994 to 1998,both on behalf of the Australian Labor Party.
Donald Edward Farrell is an Australian politician and former trade unionist. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been Minister for Trade and Tourism and Special Minister of State in the Albanese government since 2022. He has served as a Senator for South Australia since 2016,after a previous term from 2008 to 2014.
This article provides details on candidates who stood at the 2007 Australian federal election.
Mark Victor Arbib is an Australian former Labor Party politician and trade unionist,who was an Australian Senator for New South Wales from 2008 to 2012.
Douglas Niven Cameron is a retired Australian politician and trade unionist. He served as a Senator for New South Wales from 2008 to 2019,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
Corpus Christi College Maroubra is an independent Roman Catholic comprehensive co-educational secondary day school located in Maroubra,an eastern suburb of Sydney,New South Wales,Australia. The college was founded in 1961 by the Marist Brothers,a Catholic order of teaching brothers founded in France in the early nineteenth century by Saint Marcellin Champagnat.
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.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate between 2011 and 2014. Half of the state senators had been elected at the November 2007 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 2014;the other half of the state senators were elected at the August 2010 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 2017. The territory senators were elected at the August 2010 election and their terms ended at the next federal election,which was September 2013. The new Senate first met in July 2011,with state senators elected in 2010 sworn in on 4 July 2011.
Stephen Patrick Jones is an Australian politician who represents the Division of Whitlam for the Australian Labor Party. He was elected at the 2010 Australian federal election and is the current Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services.
Anthony Vincent Sheldon is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served as a Senator for New South Wales since 2019. He was previously a senior figure in the Transport Workers Union (TWU),serving as state secretary (1999–2008) and national secretary (2006–2019).
Professor Michael Patrick Feneley AM is an Australian cardiologist.
This article provides information on candidates for the 2013 Australian federal election held on 7 September 2013. There were 1,717 candidates in total.
Dugald Milton Dick is an Australian politician who serves as the 32nd Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Queensland seat of Oxley in the House of Representatives since the 2016 federal election. He previously served on the Brisbane City Council (2008–2016) and as ALP state secretary (2004–2008). He is the brother of Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick.
Timothy Ayres is an Australian politician and trade unionist who was elected as a Senator for New South Wales at the 2019 federal election. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party and was previously a trade union official with the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU).
Jason Yat-Sen Li is an Australian businessman and politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the 2022 Strathfield state by-election.
