Eric Abetz is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for Tasmania from 1994 to 2022,representing the Liberal Party. He was the Minister for Employment and the Leader of the Government in the Senate in the Abbott Government from 2013 to 2015. He previously also served as Special Minister of State in the Howard Government from 2001 to 2006 and as Minister for Fisheries,Forestry and Conservation from 2006 to 2007.
Richard Mansell Colbeck is an Australian politician. He has been a Senator for Tasmania since 2018,representing the Liberal Party,and served a previous term in the Senate from 2002 to 2016. Colbeck served as the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services and Minister for Sport in the Second Morrison Ministry from December 2020 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. Previous to this,he was the Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Youth and Sport since May 2019.
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.
Christine Anne Milne is an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Tasmania. She was the leader of the parliamentary caucus of the Australian Greens from 2012 to 2015. Milne stepped down as leader on 6 May 2015,replaced by Richard Di Natale.
Nicholas James McKim is an Australian politician,currently a member of the Australian Senate representing Tasmania. He was previously a Tasmanian Greens member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly elected at the 2002 election,representing the Franklin electorate from 2002 to 2015,and led the party from 2008 until 2014. On 21 April 2010,he became the first member of the Greens in any Australian ministry. From February 2020 until June 2022,he served as co-deputy leader of the Australian Greens.
Scott Michael Ryan is a former Australian politician who is the High Commissioner of Australia to Canada since December 2021. He served as Senator for Victoria from 2008 to 2021,representing the Liberal Party. He was President of the Senate from 2017 to 2021,having previously been a minister in the Turnbull Government from 2016 to 2017.
Section 44 of the Australian Constitution lists the grounds for disqualification on who may become a candidate for election to the Parliament of Australia. It has generally arisen for consideration by the High Court sitting in its capacity as the Court of Disputed Returns. It has been reviewed several times,but has not been amended. Following several disqualifications under sub-section 44(i),a new review of the whole section was instituted on 28 November 2017.
Kenneth Shaw Wriedt was an Australian politician and leader of the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party.
Jacquiline Louise Lambie is an Australian politician who is the leader and founder of the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN). She is a Senator for Tasmania since 2019,and was previously a Senator from 2014 to 2017.
Jonathon 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.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2016 Australian federal election held on 2 July 2016. The election was held as a consequence of a double dissolution in which both houses of parliament were dissolved. Ordinarily,only half of the senators terms end at each election. In this case,all 76 senators were elected. At the first sitting following the election,half of the senators representing each of the six states of Australia were allocated six-year terms to end on 30 June 2022,with the remainder allocated three-year terms to end on 30 June 2019. The terms of senators from the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory end on the day of the next federal election.</ref>
The 2016 Australian federal election in the Senate was part of a double dissolution election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia,after an extended eight-week official campaign period. It was the first double dissolution election since the 1987 election and the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting.
The 45th Parliament of Australia was a meeting of the legislative branch of the Australian federal government,composed of the Australian Senate and the Australian House of Representatives. It met in Canberra from 30 August 2016 to 4 April 2019. The 2016 general election held on 2 July gave the Coalition of the Liberal and National Parties control of the House,albeit with a slimmer majority than the 44th Parliament,allowing their leader Malcolm Turnbull to stay in office as the 29th Prime Minister of Australia. During the term of the parliament,the government slipped into minority due to defections and by-elections. The leadership of the government also changed during the parliament,when Scott Morrison replaced Turnbull as Liberal Leader and Prime Minister in August 2018. The 45th Parliament was officially prorogued by the Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove at 8:29 a.m. on 11 April 2019,and the House of Representatives dissolved at 8:30 a.m..
Starting in July 2017,the eligibility of several members of the Parliament of Australia was questioned. Referred to by some as a "constitutional crisis",fifteen sitting politicians were ruled ineligible by the High Court of Australia or resigned pre-emptively. The situation arose from section 44(i) of the Australian Constitution,which prohibits parliamentarians from having allegiance to a foreign power,especially citizenship. On that basis,the High Court had previously held that dual citizens are ineligible for election unless they have taken "reasonable steps" to renounce the foreign citizenship before nomination.
Re Canavan;Re Ludlam;Re Waters;Re Roberts [No 2];Re Joyce;Re Nash;Re Xenophon is a set of cases,heard together by the High Court of Australia sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns,arising from doubts as to the eligibility of a number of members of Parliament to be elected to Parliament because of section 44(i) of the Constitution.
Steven Leigh Martin is an Australian politician who was a Senator for Tasmania from February 2018 to June 2019,when he lost his seat at the 2019 federal election. Martin was declared elected to the Senate on a recount when Jacqui Lambie was caught up in the parliamentary eligibility crisis. He took his seat as an independent,before joining the National Party in May 2018 as its first Tasmanian member since the 1920s. He was previously the mayor of the City of Devonport from 2011 to 2018.
The Australian Labor Party,commonly known 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.
Wendy Anne Askew is an Australian politician who is a Senator for Tasmania,representing the Liberal Party. She was appointed to a casual vacancy on 6 March 2019 in place of her brother David Bushby.
Claire Chandler is an Australian politician who was elected as a Senator for Tasmania at the 2019 Australian federal election. She is a member of the Liberal Party.
