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.
Louise Clare Pratt is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2016,and previously from 2008 to 2014. She is a member of the Labor Party,and served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 2001 to 2007. She was the youngest woman ever elected to the Legislative Council at the time of her election,the second open lesbian to be elected to an Australian parliament,and was the first to have a transgender man as a partner.
Linda Jean Burney is an Australian politician and is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives,representing Barton since the 2016 federal election. She is Minister for Indigenous Australians in the Albanese ministry,and the first woman who identifies as Aboriginal to serve in that position.
Larissa Tahireh "Lara" Giddings is an Australian former politician who was the 44th Premier of Tasmania from 24 January 2011 until 31 March 2014,the first woman to hold the position. Born in Goroka,Papua New Guinea,she was a Labor Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Franklin from 2002 to 2018,and was the party's leader during her period as premier,replaced by Bryan Green after her government's defeat at the 2014 state election. Giddings came from the Labor Left faction. As of 2023,she remains the most recent premier of Tasmania from the Labor Party.
Roger Hugh Cook is an Australian politician who is the current premier of Western Australia,in office since June 2023 as leader of WA Labor. He was previously deputy premier of Western Australia from 2017 to 2023.
Edham Nurredin Husic,commonly known as Ed Husic,is an Australian politician serving as Minister for Industry and Science since 2022. Husic is a member of the Australian House of Representatives,elected to represent the seat of Chifley in western Sydney for the Australian Labor Party at the 2010 federal election. He is the first Muslim to be elected to federal parliament,as well as the first Muslim to be made a Minister in the Australian Government.
Alexander McEachian Gallacher was an Australian politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 2011 until his death in 2021. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was a senior official in the Transport Workers Union of Australia (TWU) before entering parliament.
Matthew James Thistlethwaite is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2013,representing the electorate of Kingsford Smith. He was formerly a member of the Australian Senate from 2011 to 2013. Since 1 June 2022,Thistlethwaite has served as Assistant Minister for Defence,Veterans' Affairs and the Republic in the ministry of Anthony Albanese.
Susan Lines is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2013,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She is the current President of the Australian Senate,having previously been Deputy President of the Senate from 2016. Before entering politics she was the assistant national secretary of United Voice.
Patrick Martin Conroy is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the Labor Left faction and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2013. He represented the Division of Charlton in New South Wales until its abolition in 2016,and since then has represented the Division of Shortland. He is currently the Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for International Development and the Pacific.
Paul Joseph Hugh McDermott is an Australian politician who was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the State Member for Prospect for the Labor Party at the 2015 New South Wales state election. Prior to entering Parliament,he had a career as an international lawyer and university academic.
Matthew James Keogh is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel in the Albanese government since 2022. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2016,representing the Western Australian seat of Burt. He worked as a lawyer before entering politics.
Christopher John Crewther is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from 2016 to 2019 before being elected to the Victorian State Parliament,representing the division of Mornington in 2022.
Reece Raymond Whitby is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2017 state election,representing Baldivis. Shortly after the 2017 election,Whitby was appointed by Premier of Western Australia Mark McGowan as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer and Minister for Energy and Finance,and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Environment and Disability Services. Whitby was successfully re-elected to the seat of Baldivis in the 2021 state election,and he was appointed to the Second McGowan Ministry,becoming the Minister of Emergency Services;Racing and Gaming,Small Business and Volunteering.
Pierre Shuai Yang is a Chinese-Australian lawyer and politician. He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council at the 2017 state election,as a Labor member in South Metropolitan Region. His term began on 22 May 2017.
Stephen Louis "Steve" Bali is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the Electoral District of Blacktown since a by-election held to replace former Labor leader John Robertson in late 2017. He previously served as the Mayor of Blacktown City Council between 2014 and 2019.
Patrick Possum Gorman is an Australian politician,elected as an Australian Labor Party representative for the Division of Perth at the 2018 Perth by-election.
Jackson George Taylor is an Australian politician and former local government councillor. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2018,representing the electorate of Bayswater.
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).
Caitlin Mary Collins is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2021 state election,representing Hillarys. Prior to her election,Collins taught politics and history at Scotch College,a private,all boys school in Swanbourne.
