The Australian Greens (AG),commonly referred to simply as the Greens,are a confederation of green state and territory political parties in Australia. As of the 2022 federal election,the Greens are the third largest political party in Australia by vote and the fourth-largest by elected representation. The leader of the party is Adam Bandt,with Mehreen Faruqi serving as deputy leader. Larissa Waters currently holds the role of Senate leader.
Catherine Fiona King is an Australian politician serving as the Minister for Infrastructure,Transport,Regional Development and Local Government since 2022 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ballarat since 2001. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and briefly served as a minister in the Gillard and Rudd governments in 2013. She served as Shadow Minister of Health from 2013 to 2019 and as Shadow Minister for Infrastructure,Transport and Regional Development from 2019 to 2022.
Lynette Fay Allison is an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Senate from 1996 to 2008,representing the state of Victoria. As of October 2019 she is the national president of the Australian Democrats.
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 Division of Ballarat is an Australian electoral division in the state of Victoria. The division was proclaimed in 1900,and was one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first federal election. It was named for the provincial city of the same name by Scottish squatter Archibald Yuille,who established the first settlement −his sheep run called Ballaarat −in 1837,with the name derived from a local Wathawurrung word for the area,balla arat,thought to mean "resting place".
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.
Michael David Danby is an Australian politician who was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1998 until 2019,representing the Division of Melbourne Ports,Victoria. Danby was briefly Parliamentary Secretary for the Arts,from March to September 2013.
In Australian politics,the two-party-preferred vote,commonly referred to as simply preferences,is the result of an election or opinion poll after preferences have been distributed to the two candidates with the highest number of votes who,in some cases,can be independents. For the purposes of TPP,the Liberal/National Coalition is usually considered a single party,with Labor being the other major party. Typically the TPP is expressed as the percentages of votes attracted by each of the two major parties,e.g. "Coalition 50%,Labor 50%",where the values include both primary votes and preferences. The TPP is an indicator of how much swing has been attained/is required to change the result,taking into consideration preferences,which may have a significant effect on the result.
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.
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.
Janet Elizabeth Rice is an Australian former politician. She served as a senator for Victoria from 2014 until 2024. She was a co-founder of the Victorian Greens and also served on the Maribyrnong City Council from 2003 to 2008,including a term as mayor.
This is a list of candidates for the 2014 Victorian state election. The election was held on 29 November 2014.
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.
Samantha Shantini Ratnam is a British-Australian social worker and politician. She was the leader of the Victorian Greens between 2017 and 2024,serving as a member of the Victorian Legislative Council in the Northern Metropolitan Region. Prior to this she was a councillor and mayor for the City of Moreland.
The Division of Macnamara is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria,which was contested for the first time at the 2019 federal election. The division is named in honour of Dame Jean Macnamara,a doctor and medical researcher who specialised in the polio virus and was involved in children's health initiatives.
The 2022 Victorian state election was held on Saturday,26 November 2022 to elect the 60th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election at the time the writs were issued,however the election in the district of Narracan was deferred due to the death of a candidate.
Joshua Solomon Burns is an Australian politician. Representing the Australian Labor Party,he was elected as the member for the division of Macnamara in Melbourne at the 2019 Australian federal election.
The history of the Australian Greens has its origins in the green parties founded in the 1980s in each of the states of Australia.
The 2025 Australian federal election will be held on or before 17 May 2025 to elect members of the 48th Parliament of Australia. 150 seats in the House of Representatives and likely 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate will be contested. It is expected that at this election,the Labor government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be seeking re-election to a second term in office,opposed by the Liberal/National Coalition under Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2022 Australian federal election held on 21 May 2022. Terms for newly elected senators representing the Australian states begin on 1 July 2022. Terms for senators in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory began on the day of the election,21 May 2022.
