The House of Assembly,or Lower House,is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital,Hobart.
Michelle Anne O'Byrne is an Australian politician for the Australian Labor Party and since May 2024,the Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
Guy Barnett is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and was appointed deputy premier of Tasmania in 2024. He has been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly since 2014 and has been a state government minister since 2016. He was previously a Senator for Tasmania from 2002 to 2011.
Brett David Whiteley is an Australian politician. Whiteley was a Member of the House of Representatives representing the federal division of Braddon. He was elected at the 2013 federal election for the Liberal Party,defeating Labor's Sid Sidebottom,but was defeated after one term by Labor's Justine Keay at the 2016 federal election.
Launceston Church Grammar School is an Anglican co-educational private school in Launceston,Tasmania,Australia for Early Learning through to Grade 12.
Helen Beatrice Polley is an Australian politician who is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate,representing the state of Tasmania since 1 July 2005.
Harold Norman Holgate AO was an Australian politician. He was premier of Tasmania from 1981 to 1982,serving as state leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) during that period. He succeeded Doug Lowe as party leader and premier during internal conflict over the Franklin Dam controversy,leading the ALP to defeat at the 1982 state election just over six months after taking office.
Janie Finlay is an Australian politician currently the Member for Bass in the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
Herbert Claude Barnard was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and represented the Division of Bass in federal parliament from 1934 to 1949. He served as Minister for Repatriation in the Chifley government from 1946 to 1949. His son Lance Barnard also entered federal politics and served as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia in the 1970s.
William Hartnoll was an Australian politician. Born in Longford,Van Diemen's Land,he was educated at Launceston Grammar School before becoming a shopkeeper,auctioneer and landowner. In 1884 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for South Launceston,transferring to Launceston in 1897. He was Minister for Lands and Works from 1892 to 1894. In 1901,Hartnoll contested the first federal election as a Free Trade candidate for the five-member Division of Tasmania,but was unsuccessful. However,in 1902,he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in a by-election for Tasmania resulting from the death of sitting Free Trade MP Frederick Piesse. Hartnoll was successful,although there was a legal challenge to his election because he had nominated for candidacy via telegram and not by submitting a signed nomination form. In 1903,following the division of Tasmania into individual electorates,he contested the seat of Bass,but was defeated by the Protectionist candidate David Storrer. He died in 1932.
Charles Richard Howroyd was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1909 until 1917,representing the Australian Labor Party until leaving the party in the 1916 Labor split. He was then elected to the Australian House of Representatives at the 1917 federal election,but died only five days later.
David Storrer was an Australian politician.
David Sydney"Syd" Jackson was an Australian politician. He was a Nationalist Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1919 to 1929,representing the electorate of Bass.
William Edward Aylett was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1938 to 1965,representing the Labor Party (ALP). He worked as a miner,mail contractor,and farmer before entering politics. He was first elected to the Senate at the age of 36 and won re-election on five more occasions.
Brian Neal Wightman is an Australian politician who served as Attorney-General of Tasmania from 2010 to 2014.
The Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN) is a political party in Australia,formed in May 2015,bearing the name of its founder,Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie. The JLN has maintained populist support for working class "battlers",especially welfare recipients. The party currently has two elected members;Jacqui Lambie in the Australian Senate and Andrew Jenner in the Tasmanian House of Assembly. At its peak,the JLN had 6 elected representatives;2 in the Senate;3 in the Tasmanian House of Assembly;and one elected local councillor.
Jonathon Roy Duniam is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has served as a Senator for Tasmania since the 2016 federal election. He served as an assistant minister in the Morrison government from 2019 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. Prior to entering parliament Duniam was a political staffer,including as deputy chief of staff to Tasmanian premier Will Hodgman.
The Tasmanian Nationals are a political party in the Australian state of Tasmania,aligned with the National Party of Australia. The party is not currently registered with the Tasmanian Electoral Commission,and is not separately registered with the Australian Electoral Commission,unlike the other state branches of the Nationals.
The Tasmanian Labor Party,officially known as the Australian Labor Party and commonly referred to simply as Tasmanian Labor,is the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party. It has been one of the most successful state Labor parties in Australia in terms of electoral success.
Bridget Kathleen Archer is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2019 federal election. She is a member of the Liberal Party and represents the Division of Bass in Tasmania.
