The Australian Democrats is a centrist political party in Australia. Founded in 1977 from a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement,both of which were descended from Liberal Party dissenting splinter groups,it was Australia's largest minor party from its formation in 1977 through to 2004 and frequently held the balance of power in the Senate during that time.
Katherine Ruth Gallagher is an Australian politician who has been serving as the Minister for Finance,Minister for Women,Minister for the Public Service and Vice-President of the Executive Council in the Albanese Government since 2022 having 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.
Jaye Amber Radisich was an Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2008,representing the electorate of Swan Hills. Radisich was the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Western Australian parliament.
Dame Dorothy Margaret Tangney DBE was an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1943 to 1968. She was the first woman elected to the Senate and one of the first two women elected to federal parliament,along with Enid Lyons.
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 and the second open lesbian to be elected to an Australian parliament.
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.
Jennifer Ann Gardiner is an Australian politician and former Nationals member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1991 to 2015.
Kayee Frances Griffin is an Australian politician and former Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council,serving from 2003 until her retirement in 2011.
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.
Meredith Hunter is an Australian former politician who was a member of the multi-member unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Ginninderra for the ACT Greens from 2008 to 2012. She was also the Parliamentary Convenor of the ACT Greens.
Caroline Le Couteur is an Australian politician. She was elected to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Molonglo for the ACT Greens at the 2008 election and defeated at the 2012 election In October 2016,she was re-elected to the assembly representing the new electorate of Murrumbidgee,serving a single term until her retirement in 2020.
Lisa Maria Singh is an Australian former politician. She was a Senator for Tasmania from 2011 to 2019. She had previously been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly,representing the division of Denison from 2006 to 2010. The granddaughter of an Indo-Fijian member of the Parliament of Fiji,Singh was Australia's first female federal parliamentarian of Indian descent.
Will Fowles is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2018,initially 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.
Linda Rosemary Savage is a lawyer and former Australian politician. She was third on the Labor Party ticket for the Legislative Council region of East Metropolitan at the 2008 Western Australian state election,but was not elected. After the death of Jock Ferguson on 13 February 2010,she was elected in a recount on 22 March. In May 2013,she exited politics after failing to gain pre-selection due to her choice to not join a Labor faction.
Giulia Jones is an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorates of Molonglo and then Murrumbidgee for the Liberal Party from 2012 until her resignation in 2022. Jones was the deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the ACT from October 2020 to January 2022.
Mary Steel Stevenson was a Scottish-born Australian community and political activist.
The ACT Labor Party,officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Australian Capital Territory Branch) and commonly referred to simply as ACT Labor,is the ACT branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The branch is the current ruling party in the Capital Territory and is led by Andrew Barr,who has concurrently served as chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory since 2014. It is one of two major parties in the unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly,and is currently in a coalition with the ACT Greens.
Au Nok-hin is a pro-democracy politician in Hong Kong. He is the former member of the Legislative Council for Hong Kong Island from 2018 to 2019 and member of the Southern District Council for Lei Tung I from 2012 to 2019.
Yam Kai-bong is a Hong Kong politician. He is the former member of the Tai Po District Council for Yee Fu and the convenor of the Neo Democrats.
