The City of Stonnington is a local government area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne,Australia. It comprises the inner south-eastern suburbs,between 3 and 13 km,from the Melbourne CBD. The city covers an area of 25.7 km2 (9.9 sq mi).
Socialist Action,known until October 2019 as the Socialist Party,was a Trotskyist political party in Australia. It published a monthly magazine called The Socialist which contained a socialist perspective on news and current issues.
Hawksburn railway station is a commuter railway station located in the southern Melbourne suburb of South Yarra in Victoria,Australia. Hawksburn is a below ground unstaffed station,featuring four platforms with an island platform and two side platforms accessible by a pedestrian bridge. The station is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register,and was opened on 7 May 1879.
The Division of Higgins is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria for the Australian House of Representatives. The division covers 41 km2 (16 sq mi) in Melbourne's inner south-eastern suburbs. The main suburbs include Armadale,Ashburton,Carnegie,Glen Iris,Kooyong,Malvern,Malvern East,Murrumbeena,Prahran and Toorak;along with parts of Camberwell,Ormond and South Yarra. Though historically a safe conservative seat,Higgins was won by the Liberal Party by a margin of just 3.9 percent over the Labor Party at the 2019 election,the closest result in the seat’s history. It then flipped to Labor in the 2022 election.
The Victorian Greens,officially known as the Australian Greens Victoria,is the Victorian state member party of the Australian Greens,a green political party in Australia.
Sir Herbert John Thornhill Hyland,storekeeper,investor,and politician,was born in 1884 at Prahran,Melbourne,second son of George Hyland,a Victorian-born painter,and his wife Mary,née Thornhill,from Ireland.
The electoral district of Brunswick is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of 14 square kilometres (5.4 sq mi) in inner northern Melbourne,and includes the suburbs of Brunswick,Brunswick East,Carlton North,Fitzroy North,Princes Hill and parts of Brunswick West. It lies within the Northern Metropolitan Region of the upper house,the Legislative Council.
Prahran is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It was created by the Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888,taking effect at the 1889 elections. The electorate is the state’s smallest by area,covering a little under 11 km2 in the inner south-east of Melbourne. It includes the suburbs of South Yarra,Prahran and Windsor,as well as parts of Southbank,St Kilda and St Kilda East.
Gregory John Barber is a former Australian politician,who was a Greens member of the Victorian Legislative Council between 2006 and 2017.
Richard Luigi Di Natale is a former Australian politician who was a senator for Victoria. He was also the leader of the Australian Greens from 2015 to 2020. Di Natale was elected to the Senate in the 2010 federal election. A former general practitioner,Di Natale became federal parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens on 6 May 2015 following the resignation of Christine Milne. He was the leader of the Greens during the 2016 and 2019 federal elections.
The electoral district of Melbourne is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It currently includes the localities of Docklands,Carlton,Melbourne,East Melbourne,West Melbourne,North Melbourne,Parkville,Newmarket,Kensington and Flemington,and includes Melbourne University. The district has been in existence since 1856.
Michael Anthony O'Brien is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2006,representing the electorate of Malvern and served as the leader of the party and opposition leader from December 2018 to September 2021.
The City of Prahran was a local government area about 5 kilometres (3 mi) southeast of Melbourne,the state capital of Victoria,Australia. The city covered an area of 9.55 square kilometres (3.69 sq mi),and existed from 1855 until 1994,when it was merged with the City of Malvern to create the City of Stonnington.
Clement Arundel Newton-Brown is a former Australian politician and entrepreneur who served as the member for Prahran in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
The 2014 Victorian state election,held on Saturday,29 November 2014,was for the 58th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and 40 seats in the Victorian Legislative Council were up for election. The incumbent centre-right Coalition minority government,led by Liberal Party leader and Premier Denis Napthine and National Party leader and Deputy Premier Peter Ryan,was defeated by the centre-left Labor Party opposition,led by Daniel Andrews. The Greens won two lower house seats,their first Legislative Assembly seats in a Victorian state election,whilst increasing their share of upper house seats. The new Andrews Ministry was sworn in on 4 December 2014.
Cr. George Tomas Gahan JP was an Australian politician and Victorian amateur boxer. He was born in Inglewood,Victoria to Benjamin Edward Gahan and Emma Gahan née Walker. The Gahan family later moved to the Melbourne suburb of Prahran where George became a building contractor. At a young age George began training as an amateur boxer. In his mid 30s Gahan attempted to join the Australian Army and defend his country in World War II. Despite being rejected by army due to a duodenal ulcer,Gahan applied a second time,only be to turned away again. This tenacious streak proved to be a valuable attribute as George again turned his focus towards amateur boxing,winning a Yarraville boxing competition and in 1949 in the final of the Welter division was beaten by the Australian champion Bill Seewitz. George had his last fight at 42 years of age when he was stopped in the 2nd round by his opponent 20 years his junior. George's tenacity and fighting talent soon shifted from the boxing ring to the political arena,becoming known as Prahran's George the Giant Killer. From 1957 to 1959,George Gahan was the president of the Prahran-South Yarra branch of the Helping Hand League of Victoria;now known as Inclusion Melbourne.
Nina Meredith Springle is an Australian politician. She was a Greens member of the Victorian Legislative Council,having represented South Eastern Metropolitan Region from 2014 to 2018.
The 2026 Victorian state election is expected to be held on 28 November 2026 to elect the 61st Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council will be up for election,presuming there are no new electorates added in a redistribution.
Gabrielle de Vietri is a member of the Victorian Greens elected in the 2022 Victorian state election for the electoral district of Richmond. From 2020 to 2021,she was mayor of the City of Yarra.
The 2020 Victorian local elections were held on 24 October 2020 to elect the councils of 76 of the 79 local government areas in Victoria,Australia.
