Gary John Joseph Humphries is a Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He was a member of the Australian Senate representing the Australian Capital Territory for the Liberal Party of Australia from 2003 to 2013. He was the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2000 to 2001;and was elected to the first parliament of the Australian Capital Territory,in 1989,later representing the Molonglo electorate until 2003.
Katherine Ruth Gallagher is an Australian politician and social worker who has been serving as the Minister for Finance in the Albanese Government since 2022,and formerly served as the 6th Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2011 to 2014. She has been a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory since the 2019 federal election,as a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She previously served in the Senate from 2015 to 2018.
Brendan Michael Smyth is a former Australian politician,who was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Brindabella for the Liberal Party from 1998 until 2016. From 2002 to 2006 Smyth was the ACT Leader of the Opposition and served briefly as the Deputy Chief Minister during 2000 and 2001. He has held the ACT portfolios Urban Services,Business,Tourism and the Arts,and Police and Emergency Services.
Andrew James Barr is an Australian politician who is has been serving as the 7th Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory since 2014. He has been an Australian Labor Party member in the ACT Legislative Assembly since 2006,after being elected on a countback to replace former Treasurer Ted Quinlan,who resigned mid-term. Barr was immediately promoted to Cabinet upon his election. On 11 December 2014 he was elected as Chief Minister after his predecessor,Katy Gallagher,resigned and announced her intention to run for the Senate. In addition to being Chief Minister,he holds the portfolios of Treasurer,Social Inclusion and Equality,Tourism and Special Events,and Trade,Industry and Investment.
Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly were held on Saturday,20 October 2001. The incumbent Liberal Party,led by Gary Humphries,was challenged by the Labor Party,led by Jon Stanhope. Candidates were elected to fill three multi-member electorates using a single transferable vote method,known as the Hare-Clark system. The result was another hung parliament. However Labor,with the largest representation in the 17-member unicameral Assembly,formed Government with the support of the ACT Greens and Democrats. Stanhope was elected Chief Minister at the first sitting of the fifth Assembly on 12 November 2001. The election was conducted by the ACT Electoral Commission and was the first time in Australia's history that an electronic voting and counting system was used for some,but not all,polling places.
Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly were held on Saturday,16 October 2004. The incumbent Labor Party,led by Jon Stanhope,was challenged by the Liberal Party,led by Brendan Smyth. Candidates were elected to fill three multi-member electorates using a single transferable vote method,known as the Hare-Clark system. The result was a clear majority of nine seats in the 17-member unicameral Assembly for Labor. It marked the first and so far only time in the history of ACT self-government that one party was able to win a majority in its own right. Stanhope was elected Chief Minister at the first sitting of the sixth Assembly on 4 November 2004. The election was conducted by the ACT Electoral Commission and was the second time in Australia's history that an electronic voting and counting system was used for some,but not all,polling places,expanding on the initial trial of the system at the 2001 ACT election.
The Molonglo electorate was one of the three electorates for the unicameral 17-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly between 1995 and 2016. It had seven seats,and was the largest of the three electorates in terms of population.
Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly were held on Saturday,18 October 2008. The incumbent Labor Party,led by Jon Stanhope,was challenged by the Liberal Party,led by Zed Seselja. Candidates were elected to fill three multi-member electorates using a single transferable vote method,known as the Hare-Clark system. The result was another hung parliament with Labor winning seven seats,the Liberals six seats and the Greens finishing with four seats,giving the Greens the balance of power in the 17-member unicameral Assembly. On 31 October 2008,after almost two weeks of deliberations,the Greens chose to support a Labor minority government. Consequently,Labor was re-elected to a third consecutive term of government in the ACT. Stanhope was elected Chief Minister at the first sitting of the seventh Assembly on 5 November 2008. The election was conducted by the ACT Electoral Commission.
Zdenko Matthew "Zed" Seselja is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory since 2013,representing the Liberal Party. He was the Minister for International Development and the Pacific in the Morrison Government from December 2020 to May 2022,and previously served as an assistant minister in the Morrison and Turnbull Governments since 2016.
Shane Stephen Rattenbury,is the Attorney-General of the ACT and former Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly,and a member of the multi-member district unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Molonglo from 2008 to 2016 and the electorate of Kurrajong since 2016 for the ACT Greens. He was the first Speaker in any Parliament in the world representing a Green political party.
The chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory is the head of government of the Australian Capital Territory. The leader of the party with the largest number of seats in the unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly usually takes on the role. Unlike other states and territories,the chief minister is not appointed by a governor or administrator,but elected directly by the Assembly.
Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly occurred on Saturday,20 October 2012. The 11-year incumbent Labor Party,led by Chief Minister Katy Gallagher,won a fourth term over the main opposition Liberal Party,led by opposition leader Zed Seselja.
A general election for the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly was held on Saturday,15 October 2016.
This is a list of members of the eighth Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly,as elected at and subsequent to the October 2012 election.
This is a list of members of the ninth Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly,as elected at and subsequent to the October 2016 election.
Gordon Ramsay is an Australian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT),representing the Ginninderra electorate from 2016 to 2020. He was elected to be a Minister in the Barr government.
Christopher James Steel is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2016,representing the electorate of Murrumbidgee and currently serves as a Cabinet Minister in the ACT Government. Before his election,Steel was an education advocate working in the early childhood sector.
Rachel Stephen-Smith is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2016,representing the electorate of Kurrajong. Stephen-Smith grew up in O'Connor in Canberra's inner-north and attended local schools such as Lyneham High. Following school,Stephen-Smith attended the Australian National University and studied economics. Stephen-Smith previously worked as a senior public servant in the Australian Capital Territory public service,the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and as a Chief of Staff to Senator Kim Carr. Stephen-Smith has also worked in Washington DC at the Australian Embassy.
The Second Barr Ministry was the 14th ministry of the Government of the Australian Capital Territory,led by Labor Chief Minister Andrew Barr and his deputy Yvette Berry. It was appointed on 1 November 2016,following the 2016 general election held two weeks earlier. The Greens signed a new formal Parliamentary Agreement with Labor which continued to maintain Green's leader Shane Rattenbury's position in the Ministry,whilst mandating that the Greens not move or support any motion of no confidence in the Labor Government,except in instances of gross misconduct or corruption.
The First Barr Ministry was the 13th ministry of the Government of the Australian Capital Territory,and was led by Labor Chief Minister Andrew Barr and his deputy Yvette Berry. It was appointed on 15 December 2014 following the resignation of Katy Gallagher as Chief Minister and the subsequent election of Andrew Barr as her replacement by the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. Green's Shane Rattenbury continued to serve as a minister for the remainder of the parliamentary term,as part of the Labor-Greens parliamentary agreement signed in 2012 at the start of the term.
