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.
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.
The 2006 Victorian state election,held on Saturday,25 November 2006,was for the 56th Parliament of Victoria. Just over 3 million Victorians registered to vote elected 88 members to the Legislative Assembly and,for the first time,40 members to the Legislative Council under a proportional representation system. The election was conducted by the independent Victorian Electoral Commission.
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.
Colleen Mildred Hartland is a former Australian politician,and a Greens member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2006 to 2018.
David James Clendon is a New Zealand former politician. He was a list Member of Parliament in the New Zealand House of Representatives for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2009 until 2017. He later served one term on the Far North District Council from 2019 to 2022.
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.
Ellen Sandell is an Australian politician and environmentalist. She has represented the electorate of Melbourne in the Parliament of Victoria since 2014 as a member of the Victorian Greens and been the party's leader since April 2024.
Timothy Colin Smith is an Australian former politician,who served as the member for Kew from 2014 to 2022 in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Liberal Party.
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 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 in a landslide victory. Minor party the Greens led by Samantha Ratnam also contested the election.
The Australian Greens held a number of leadership elections and deputy leadership elections. The most recent was held in 2022.
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.
A by-election for the electorate of Prahran in the Victorian Legislative Assembly is scheduled to be held sometime in 2025,following the resignation of incumbent member Sam Hibbins,which occurred on 23 November 2024.
