Kim Christian Beazley is an Australian former politician and diplomat. Since 2022 he has served as the Chairman of the Australian War Memorial. Previously,he was leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 1996 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006,having previously been a cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments. After leaving parliament,he served as ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2016 and 33rd governor of Western Australia from 2018 to 2022.
Fremantle is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.
Melissa Parke is a former Australian Labor Party politician and UN human rights lawyer,who served as Member for the federal electoral Division of Fremantle in the Australian House of Representatives from 2007 to 2016. In 2013 Parke was appointed by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as Minister for International Development and served in that capacity until Labor lost government later that year.
Suzanne Mary Ellery is an Australian politician who has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia since 2001,representing South Metropolitan Region. She is the current Minister for Finance,Minister for Commerce,and Minister for Women's Interests in the McGowan government,having previously served as a minister in the government of Alan Carpenter from 2007 to 2008.
Roger Hugh Cook is an Australian politician who is the current premier of Western Australia,in office since June 2023 as leader of WA Labor. He was previously deputy premier of Western Australia from 2017 to 2023.
Adele Simone Carles is an Australian former politician. She was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 2009 to 2013,representing the electorate of Fremantle. She was initially elected as a Greens WA member at the 2009 Fremantle state by-election,becoming the first Greens candidate to be elected to an Australian state lower house of parliament in a single-member seat. However,she resigned from the Greens on 6 May 2010 to sit as an independent. In November 2010,Carles agreed to guarantee confidence and supply votes for the incumbent Colin Barnett Liberal minority government. She ran for re-election as an independent at the 2013 state election,but was defeated,finishing fourth behind the Labor,Liberal and Greens candidates with 5.49% of the vote.
Rita Saffioti is an Australian politician. Representing the Australian Labor Party,she has been the member for the electoral district of West Swan in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly,the lower house of the Parliament of Western Australia,since 6 September 2008. Since June 2023,she has been the deputy premier of Western Australia,the treasurer of Western Australia,the minister for transport,and the minister for tourism. From March 2017 to June 2023,she was the minister for transport and minister for planning. From March 2021 to June 2023,she was also the minister for ports. From March 2017 to December 2018,she was also the minister for lands.
William Joseph Johnston is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2008 state election,representing Cannington.
The 2013 Australian federal election to elect the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia took place on 7 September 2013. The centre-right Liberal/National Coalition opposition led by Opposition leader Tony Abbott of the Liberal Party of Australia and Coalition partner the National Party of Australia,led by Warren Truss,defeated the incumbent centre-left Labor Party government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in a landslide. It was also the third time in history that a party won 90 or more seats at an Australian election. Labor had been in government for six years since being elected in the 2007 election. This election marked the end of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor government and the start of the 9 year long Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Liberal-National Coalition government. Abbott was sworn in by the Governor-General,Quentin Bryce,as Australia's new Prime Minister on 18 September 2013,along with the Abbott Ministry. The 44th Parliament of Australia opened on 12 November 2013,with the members of the House of Representatives and territory senators sworn in. The state senators were sworn in by the next Governor-General Peter Cosgrove on 7 July 2014,with their six-year terms commencing on 1 July.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Western Australia have seen significant progress since the beginning of the 21st century,with male sex acts legal since 1990 and the state parliament passing comprehensive law reforms in 2002. The state decriminalised male homosexual acts in 1990 and was the first to grant full adoption rights to LGBT couples in 2002.
Minister for Training and Workforce Development is a position in the government of Western Australia,currently held by Simone McGurk of the Labor party. The position was first created after the 1933 state election,for the government of Philip Collier,but was abolished in 1943 and not re-created until 1982. It had been a distinct portfolio in most governments since then,albeit under several different names. The minister was responsible for the state government's Department of Training and Workforce Development (DTWD).
David Robert Michael is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2017 state election,representing Balcatta. Michael is the WA Parliament's first MP of Finnish descent.
Zak Richard Francis Kirkup is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the Western Australian Liberal Party,and served as a member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Dawesville from 2017 to 2021.
Sabine Elisabeth Winton is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2017 state election,representing Wanneroo. She currently serves as a Minister for Early Childhood Education;Child Protection;Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence and Community Services.
Pierre Shuai Yang is a Chinese Australian lawyer and politician. He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council at the 2017 state election,as a Labor member in South Metropolitan Region. His term began on 22 May 2017.
The 2021 Western Australian state election was conducted on Saturday 13 March 2021 to elect members to the Parliament of Western Australia,where all 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 36 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election.
Carolyn Laura Power (née Habib) is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the South Australian House of Assembly from the 2018 state election until 2022,representing Elder.
Caitlin Mary Collins is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2021 state election,representing Hillarys. Prior to her election,Collins taught politics and history at local High Schools.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Western Australia is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Western Australia (WA) confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on 21 February 2020,and its first death on 1 March. On 15 March,premier Mark McGowan declared a state of emergency. On 24 March,Western Australia closed its borders to the rest of Australia,and on 1 April,the state implemented borders between regions in the state. By mid-April 2020,the state had eliminated community transmission of COVID-19,becoming one of the few places in the world to do so. There were only a handful of cases of community transmission in the state after mid-April,until late December 2021 when a tourist caused an outbreak that led to the cancelling of some New Year's Eve events,and the re-imposing of mask wearing rules in Perth and the Peel region.
Dorinda Rose Cox is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2021,representing the Greens. A Yamatji and Noongar woman,she is the first Indigenous woman to represent Western Australia in the Senate. She was originally appointed to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Rachel Siewert in 2021,and was then elected as the Greens' lead Senate candidate in Western Australia at the 2022 federal election.
