The District of Tuggeranong is one of the original eighteen districts of the Australian Capital Territory used in land administration. The district is subdivided into divisions (suburbs),sections and blocks and is the southernmost town centre of Canberra,the capital city of Australia. The district comprises nineteen suburbs and occupies 117 square kilometres (45 sq mi) to the east of the Murrumbidgee River.
Rosemary Follett is a former Australian politician who was the inaugural Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory,serving in 1989 and again between 1991 and 1995. She was the first woman to become head of government in an Australian state or territory.
Gowrie is a suburb of Canberra,Australia,located in the northern end of the Tuggeranong Valley. Tuggeranong suburbs are the southernmost of Australia's capital city. Gowrie is named after Brigadier-General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven,1st Earl of Gowrie (1872–1955),Governor-General of Australia from 1936 to 1944.
Residents Rally was an Australian political party,with four candidates elected to the first Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly at the 1989 Australian Capital Territory general election. Residents Rally were led by Canberra human rights barrister and lawyer,Bernard Collaery. Collaery defined the party as "a community-based urban green party". The Rally formed a coalition with the Liberal Party,led by Trevor Kaine,in late 1989. However,this fractious Alliance was to last for only two years before collapsing. The Rally was unsuccessful in retaining any seats at the 1992 ACT general election.
Chisholm is a suburb in the Canberra,Australia district of Tuggeranong,named after Caroline Chisholm.
Gilmore is a suburb in the Canberra,Australia district of Tuggeranong. The postcode is 2905. The suburb is named after the poet and journalist,Dame Mary Gilmore. It was gazetted on 5 August 1975. Streets are named after journalists,particularly female journalists.
From 2016,the 25-member unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly is elected from five multi-member electorates,with five seats per electorate.
Wayne Bruce Berry,former Australian politician,was a member of the unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from 1989 to 2008,representing the electorate of Ginninderra for the Labor Party. Berry served as Deputy Chief Minister from 1991 to 1994,Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 1998 and Speaker of the Assembly from 2001 to 2008.
The Brindabella electorate is one of the five electorates for the unicameral 25-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. It elects five members,and is the largest of the electorates in geographic area.
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.
Mary Edith Porter is a former Labor member of the ACT Assembly. She was first elected to the Assembly in October 2004. Immediately prior to that,she was CEO of Volunteering ACT from 1993 until October 2004
Craig John Duby,former Australian politician,was a member of the unicameral Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory between 1989 and 1992,elected to the multi-member single constituency Assembly as a representative of the No Self-Government Party. During his term in office,Duby was a member of the Independents Group and the Hare-Clark Independent Party. Duby was the Minister for Finance and Urban Services and briefly was the Minister for Housing and Community Services in the Kaine ministry. For part of one day,he served as the Leader of the Opposition.
Joy Marie Burch is an Australian politician and the current Speaker of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. She has been a Labor Party member for the seat of Brindabella in the ACT Legislative Assembly since the 2008 ACT election.
Jeremy David Hanson,CSC,MLA is a former Australian Army officer and is an Australian politician with the Liberal Party,elected to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly as one of seven MLAs for the Molonglo electorate at the 2008 election. He was the Opposition Leader in the ACT,as well as Shadow Minister for Health,Police,Corrections and Indigenous Affairs,between February 2013 and October 2016. In 2016,following a redistricting of the ACT's electorates and an expansion in size of the Legislative Assembly,he was elected as one of five MLAs for the new electorate of Murrumbidgee.
Michael John Moore is a public health leader,academic and former Australian politician. He was an independent member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly for four terms,from 1989 to 2001. He served as Australia's first independent minister as Minister for Health and Community Care from 1998 to 2001 in the Liberal minority government led by Chief Minister,Kate Carnell and later,Gary Humphries.
Ellnor Judith Grassby,néeLouez,a former Australian politician,was a member of the multi-member single constituency unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly,representing the Labor Party between 1989 and 1995. Grassby served as Minister for Housing and Urban Services in the First Follett Ministry.
David John Prowse,a former Australian politician,was the first Speaker of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly,serving between 1989 and 1992. Elected at the 1989 general election to the inaugural multi-member single electorate unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing,initially,the No Self-Government Party,Prowse then sat as an independent,before joining the Liberal Party.
A general election for the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly was held on Saturday,15 October 2016.
The Australian Labor Party (Australian Capital Territory Branch),commonly known as ACT Labor,is the ACT branch of the Australian Labor Party. It is one of two major parties in the unicameral Parliament of the Australian Capital Territory.
The 2024 Australian Capital Territory general election will be held on or before Saturday the 19th of October 2024 to elect all 25 members of the unicameral ACT Legislative Assembly.
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