The City of Greater Geelong is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria,Australia,located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of 1,248 square kilometres (482 sq mi) and,in June 2018,had a population of 252,217. It is primarily urban with the vast majority of its population living in the Greater Geelong urban area,while other significant settlements within the LGA include Anakie,Balliang,Barwon Heads,Batesford,Ceres,Clifton Springs,Drysdale,Lara,Ocean Grove,Portarlington and St Leonards. It was formed in 1993 from the amalgamation of the Rural City of Bellarine,Shire of Corio,City of Geelong,City of Geelong West,City of Newtown,City of South Barwon,and parts of Shire of Barrabool and Shire of Bannockburn.
The Borough of Queenscliffe is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria,Australia,located in the southern part of the state. It is the smallest local government area in Victoria,covering an area of 10.83 square kilometres (4.18 sq mi) and,in June 2018,had a population of 2,982. It includes only two settlements,which are Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale. It is situated on the south coast,south-east of Geelong on the Bellarine Peninsula south of Swan Bay and next to the Port Phillip Heads,the entrance to Port Phillip Bay from Bass Strait.
The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria,Australia,the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street,Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review,in a similar fashion to its federal counterpart,the Australian Senate. Although,it is possible for legislation to be first introduced in the Council,most bills receive their first hearing in the Legislative Assembly.
Gavan Michael O'Connor is an Australian politician who was an Australian Labor Party (ALP) member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1993 to November 2007,representing the Division of Corio,Victoria.
Denis Vincent Napthine is a former Australian politician who was the 47th Premier of Victoria. Napthine was a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly,representing the electoral district of Portland from 1988 to 2002 and South-West Coast from 2002 to 2015. He was elected leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party on 6 March 2013 following the resignation of Ted Baillieu and was sworn in as premier on the same day. His party lost the Victorian state election on 29 November 2014 and he announced he would step down as leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party,with Matthew Guy being elected his successor on 4 December.
Elaine Cafferty Carbines is an Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from September 1999 to November 2006,representing Geelong Province. A former teacher and community campaigner,Carbines was a prominent backbench member of the government,often raising issues of local concern. She was a member of the Labor Right faction.
Edward Norman Baillieu is a former Australian politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2010 to 2013. He was a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2014,representing the electorate of Hawthorn. He was elected leader of the Liberal Party in opposition in 2006,and served as Premier from 2010 until 2013 after winning the 2010 state election. He resigned as Premier on 6 March 2013,and was succeeded by Denis Napthine.
South Barwon is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. Located in a mixed urban and rural area south of the Barwon River,it covers an area of 621 km²,including the Geelong suburbs of Belmont and Grovedale,Waurn Ponds and part of Highton,the coastal centre of Torquay and the rural towns of Barrabool,Bellbrae,Connewarre,Gnarwarre,Modewarre,Moriac and Mount Moriac. The electorate had a population of 52,241 at the 2001 census.
Ian Douglas Trezise is an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2014,representing the seat of Geelong.
Western Victoria Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria,Australia,which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council by proportional representation. The region was created in 2006 following the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council.
Darren Leicester Cheeseman is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2018,representing the seat of South Barwon. He previously held the federal seat of Corangamite from 2007 to 2013.
The electoral district of Bellarine is one of the electoral districts of Victoria,Australia,for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of 367 square kilometres (142 sq mi) stretching from the Bellarine Peninsula to the outer eastern suburbs of Geelong. It includes the towns of Barwon Heads,Clifton Springs,Drysdale,Indented Head,Ocean Grove,Point Lonsdale,Portarlington and Queenscliff and the Geelong suburbs of Leopold and Moolap. It lies within the Western Victoria Region of the upper house,the Legislative Council.
Geoffrey Kemp Howard is an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly,representing Ballarat East from 1999 to 2014,and Buninyong from 2014 to 2018.
Geoffrey Robertson Crawford,DCM was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Country Party from 1950 to 1976,and served as Minister for Agriculture from 1968 until 1975.
James Leo Geraghty was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until 1953. He was a member of the Labor Party (ALP) until 1950 and then sat as an Independent Labor member.
John Wesley Seiffert was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until his death in 1965. He was a member of the Labor Party (ALP),but stood at an Independent Labor candidate at the 1950 state election.
The 1950 New South Wales state election was held on 17 June 1950. It was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting and was held on boundaries created at a 1949 redistribution. The election was for all of the 94 seats in the Legislative Assembly,which was an increase of 4 seats since the previous election.
Anthony Richard Carbines is an Australian politician,who represents the electoral district of Ivanhoe in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Labor Party.
William Brownbill was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly on two occasions from 1920 to 1932,then from 1935 until his death in 1938. He represented the electoral district of Geelong for the Labor Party. Upon his death,he was succeeded as member for Geelong by his second wife,Fanny.
The Australian Labor Party,commonly known as Victorian Labor,is the semi-autonomous Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The Victorian branch comprises two major wings:the parliamentary wing and the organisational wing. The parliamentary wing comprising all elected party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council,which when they meet collectively constitute the party caucus. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the caucus,and party factions have a strong influence in the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on the continuing support of the caucus and the leader may be deposed by failing to win a vote of confidence of parliamentary members. By convention,the premier sits in the Legislative Assembly,and is the leader of the party controlling a majority in that house. The party leader also typically is a member of the Assembly,though this is not a strict party constitutional requirement.
