The City of Whitehorse is a local government area in Victoria,Australia in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of 64 km2 (25 sq mi) and in June 2018,Whitehorse had a population of 176,196.
Mont Albert is an inner eastern suburb of Melbourne,Victoria,Australia,12 kilometres east of Melbourne's Central Business District,located within the Cities of Boroondara and Whitehorse local government areas. Mont Albert recorded a population of 4,948 at the 2021 census.
The Division of Chisholm is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The division was created in 1949 and is named after Caroline Chisholm,a social worker and promoter of women's immigration.
John Mansfield Brumby is the current Chancellor of La Trobe University and former Victorian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010. He became leader of the Victorian Labor Party and premier after the resignation of Steve Bracks. He also served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. He contested his first election as premier at the November 2010 Victorian state election. His government was defeated by the Liberal/National Coalition led by Ted Baillieu. Brumby resigned as Labor leader after the election,on 30 November,to be replaced by Daniel Andrews. Within weeks of this leadership change,Brumby left parliament,with a Broadmeadows by-election taking place on 19 February 2011.
William Richard Shorten is an Australian politician currently serving as Minister for Government Services and Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme since 2022. He previously served as leader of the opposition and leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2013 to 2019. He has also served as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Maribyrnong since 2007,and held several ministerial portfolios in the Gillard and Rudd governments from 2010 to 2013.
Daniel Michael Andrews is an Australian politician serving as the 48th and current premier of Victoria since December 2014. He has been the leader of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since December 2010 and a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since 2002.
Frank Noel Wilkes was an Australian politician who served as the Leader of the Labor Opposition in Victoria from 1977 to 1981.
The electoral district of Burwood is an electorate for the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It is located approximately 13 kilometres east of Melbourne,and covers an area of 25 km2. It includes the suburbs of Ashburton,Ashwood,Box Hill South,Burwood,and parts of Camberwell,Chadstone,Glen Iris,and Surrey Hills. It was created in 1955 as part of the expansion of the Legislative Assembly,and abolished in 1967,replaced by Glen Iris. It was recreated in 1976,replacing Glen Iris.
Thomas James Burns AO was an Australian politician who led the Labor Party (ALP) in Queensland between 1974 and 1978 and was Deputy Premier of Queensland between 1989 and 1996. He served as the Member for Lytton in the Parliament of Queensland between 1972 and 1996. Burns had previously served as the Federal President of Labor between 1970 and 1973,playing a key role in modernising the party prior to the election of Gough Whitlam as the Prime Minister of Australia in 1972.
Political funding in Australia deals with political donations,public funding and other forms of funding received by politician or political party in Australia to pay for an election campaign. Political parties in Australia are publicly funded,to reduce the influence of private money upon elections,and subsequently,the influence of private money upon the shaping of public policy. After each election,the Australian Electoral Commission distributes a set amount of money to each political party,per vote received. For example,after the 2013 election,political parties and candidates received $58.1 million in election funding. The Liberal Party received $23.9 million in public funds,as part of the Coalition total of $27.2 million,while the Labor Party received $20.8 million.
Will Fowles is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2018,representing the seat of Burwood in Melbourne's Eastern suburbs. Ahead of the 2022 Victorian state election,the seat of Burwood was abolished by Victoria's Electoral Boundaries Commission,leading Fowles to stand for the seat of Ringwood,where he resides with his family.
Socialism in Australia dates back at least as far as the late-19th century. Notions of socialism in Australia have taken many different forms including utopian nationalism àla Edward Bellamy,the Marxism of parties such as the Communist Party of Australia,and the democratic socialist reformist electoral project of the early Australian Labor Party.
William "Will" Hams is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for the Box Hill Hawks in the Victorian Football League. He previously played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from Sale,Victoria,he was drafted with Essendon's only pick in the 2013 pre-season draft with pick 6. He made his debut in round 10,2013 against Sydney at the Sydney Cricket Ground as the substitute.
Timothy Graham Watts is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2013 federal election,representing the Victorian seat of Gellibrand. Since 1 June 2022,Watts has served as Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs in the ministry of Anthony Albanese.
The 2018 Victorian state election was held on Saturday,24 November 2018 to elect the 59th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election. The first-term incumbent Labor government,led by Premier Daniel Andrews,won a second four-year term,defeating the Liberal/National Coalition opposition,led by Opposition Leader Matthew Guy. Minor party the Greens led by Samantha Ratnam also contested the election.
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.
Peter Khalil is an Australian politician and the Labor Member for Wills in the Australian House of Representatives. Prior to entering parliament,Khalil worked as a consultant,the Victorian Multicultural Commissioner,the Director of Strategy at the Special Broadcasting Service,and a national security policy adviser to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Stephen Jolly is an Australian politician,socialist activist,author and construction worker. He is a councillor in the City of Yarra and previously was the President and lead candidate for the Victorian Socialists during the 2018 state election.
The Liberal Party of Australia,branded as Liberal Victoria,and commonly known as the Victorian Liberals,is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria. It was formed in 1949 as the Liberal and Country Party (LCP),and simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1965.
Gladys Liu is a Hong Kong-born Australian former politician,who represented the Division of Chisholm in Victoria for the Liberal Party from her election in May 2019 to her defeat at the 2022 Australian federal election. Liu was the first ethnically Chinese woman ever elected to the House,defeating the Australian Labor Party's Jennifer Yang. Liu was defeated by Carina Garland in the 2022 Australian federal election.
