The Country Liberal Party of the Northern Territory (CLP),commonly known as the Country Liberals,is a centre-right political party in Australia's Northern Territory. In local politics it operates in a two-party system with the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It also contests federal elections as an affiliate of the Liberal Party of Australia and National Party of Australia,the two partners in the federal coalition.
Warren George Entsch is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007 and since 2010,representing the Division of Leichhardt. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland,and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.
Joel Andrew Fitzgibbon is a retired Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2022,representing the New South Wales seat of Hunter. He served as Minister for Defence (2007–2009) in the first Rudd government and Minister for Agriculture,Fisheries and Forestry (2013) in the second Rudd government. He was also Chief Government Whip in the House of Representatives (2010–2013) in the Gillard government.
Ian Elgin Macfarlane is an Australian former politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2016,representing the Liberal Party. He served as a minister in the Howard and Abbott governments.
Peter Sid Sidebottom is an Australian former politician. Sidebottom was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives,representing the Division of Braddon in Tasmania between 1998 and 2004 and again from the 2007 federal election until his defeat in 2013. In 2011,Sidebottom was appointed the Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture,Fisheries and Forestry. He was defeated for a second time at the 2013 election,with a swing of 10% against him.
Christian John Zahra was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from October 1998 to October 2004,representing the regional seat of McMillan,Victoria.
The Division of Brand is an Australian electoral division in Perth,Western Australia. Brand was first created in 1984 and is named after Sir David Brand,Premier of Western Australia 1959-71. Brand governed Western Australia at a time when the state was developing its new mining and industrial base.
Louise Elizabeth Markus is a former Australian politician who served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives,initially elected to represent the seat of Greenway in western Sydney for the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2004 federal election. Following an unfavourable redistribution in 2010,she moved to the seat of Macquarie. She lost the 2016 federal election to Labor's Susan Templeman.
Jaye Amber Radisich was an Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2008,representing the electorate of Swan Hills. Radisich was the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Western Australian parliament.
Gregory Ivan Combet is an Australian former politician and trade unionist. He was Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions between 1999 and 2007. He was elected member for the New South Wales Federal seat of Charlton for the Australian Labor Party at the 2007 election and was immediately appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement in the First Rudd Ministry on 3 December 2007. Combet was the Minister for Climate Change,Industry and Innovation in the Second Gillard Ministry before announcing his resignation from the ministry on 26 June 2013 following Julia Gillard's defeat in a leadership ballot. He previously served as Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change,when Penny Wong was the Minister.
Mark Alfred Dreyfus is an Australian politician and lawyer who has been attorney-general of Australia and cabinet secretary since June 2022,having held both roles previously in 2013 and from 2010 to 2013 respectively. Dreyfus is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),and has been the MP for Isaacs since the 2007 election.
Mundingburra is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It is currently held by Labor Party MP Les Walker.
Ann Patricia Barker is a former Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2014,representing the electorate of Oakleigh. She previously represented the electorate of Bentleigh from 1988 to 1992.
Shane Stephen Rattenbury,is the Attorney-General of the ACT and former Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly,and a member of the multi-member district unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Molonglo from 2008 to 2016 and the electorate of Kurrajong since 2016 for the ACT Greens. He was the first Speaker in any Parliament in the world representing a Green political party.
Lucy Elizabeth Wicks is a former Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives,representing Division of Robertson in New South Wales,from 2013 until 2022 when the House was dissolved. At the 2022 federal election,Wicks suffered a 7.3% swing,and she conceded defeat to Australian Labor Party Candidate,Gordon Reid.
Meryl Jane Swanson is an Australian politician and former radio presenter. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Division of Paterson in the Australian House of Representatives since the 2016 federal election.
Susan Raye Templeman is an Australian politician. She is the member for Macquarie in the Australian House of Representatives and is Australia's Special Envoy for the Arts. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party and defeated the Liberal Louise Markus at the 2016 federal election. She was re-elected in 2019. Templeman had previously run twice for the same seat,in 2010 and 2013.
Raffaele "Raff" Ciccone is an Australian politician who is a Senator for Victoria,representing the Australian Labor Party. He was appointed to the Senate on 6 March 2019 following the resignation of Jacinta Collins,becoming the 100th Senator to represent the state of Victoria.
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.
Louise Jane Miller-Frost is an Australian politician elected to represent the division of Boothby in the 2022 Australian federal election. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party.
