The Division of North Sydney is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
Philip Ernest Lucock,CBE was an Australian politician and Presbysterian minister. He served in the House of Representatives from 1952 to 1980,representing the Division of Lyne for the Country Party. He was Deputy Speaker for a record span of over 13 years.
Ross Vincent Free is a former Australian politician who served as a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the seat of Macquarie from 1980 until 1984,then Lindsay from 1984 until 1996. He served as a minister from 1990 until 1996 in both the Hawke and Keating ministries.
The 1943 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 21 August 1943. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Labor Party,led by Prime Minister John Curtin,defeated the opposition Country–UAP coalition led by Arthur Fadden in a landslide.
James Donald Mathieson Dobie was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served in the House of Representatives for over 25 years,representing the seats of Hughes (1966–1969) and Cook. He was an assistant minister during the McMahon government (1971–1972). Prior to entering politics he worked for the Bank of New South Wales.
Francis Armand Bland,CMG was an Australian politician.
Francis Edward McLean was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney,he received a primary education before becoming a clerk,and eventually an accountant and businessman. In 1894 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Marrickville,a member of the Free Trade Party. He held the seat until 1901,when he transferred to federal Parliament,winning the House of Representatives seat of Lang,again for the Free Trade Party. In 1903,he unsuccessfully attempted to defeat prominent Protectionist and former Premier of New South Wales William Lyne in his seat of Hume. He retired from politics and died in 1926.
Daniel Patrick Minogue was an Australian politician. He was born in Ireland and worked as a shopkeeper and hotelier before entering politics. He served on the Sydney City Council from 1938 to 1950,leading the Lang Labor faction on the council. He later represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1969,holding the seat of West Sydney. Crescent Street in Glebe was renamed Minogue Crescent in his honour and the Minogue Reserve in Glebe was similarly named after him.
Samuel Dennis was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne,he was educated at state schools before becoming a contractor and company director. He served on Northcote Council for 36 years before his election to the Australian House of Representatives in 1931 as the United Australia Party member for Batman. Dennis defeated Labor member Frank Brennan on a swing of over 26 percent as part of the massive UAP victory that year. However,Batman was naturally a Labor seat,and Brennan defeated Dennis in a 1934 rematch. Dennis became a businessman after leaving politics and died in 1945.
Mary Catherine Crawford is a former Australian politician. Born in Toowoomba,Queensland,she was educated at the University of Queensland before becoming a teacher. In 1987,she was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Forde. On 25 March 1994 she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Housing and Regional Development,a position she held until the defeat of the Keating Government in the 1996 election,in which Crawford lost her seat. Crawford had previously held her seat with a fairly safe majority of 8.6 percent. However,a redistribution ahead of the election pushed Forde into some rural,conservative-leaning territory in the Scenic Rim. This wiped out Crawford's majority,reducing it to an extremely marginal 0.1 percent. Believing that this made Forde difficult—if not impossible—to hold,Crawford tried to transfer to the friendlier seat of Rankin,but was rebuffed by the party's organisational wing. She was defeated by Liberal Kay Elson on a nine-percent swing.
Albert Oliver Badman was an Australian politician. Born in Yacka,South Australia,he was educated at state schools before becoming a wheat farmer and wheat breeder. He was a Methodist lay preacher and President of the South Australian Country Party before entering Parliament. In 1931,he was elected to the Australian Senate for South Australia,representing the Country Party. In 1937,Badman transferred to the House of Representatives,winning the seat of Grey. The United Australia Party (UAP) did not contest the seat as the Country Party had agreed to allow the UAP's sitting member for Grey,Philip McBride,to take Badman's place in the Senate. Together with fellow Country Party members Arthur Fadden,Bernard Corser and Thomas Collins,Badman dissociated himself from party leader Earle Page after the latter made attacks on the leader of the UAP,Robert Menzies;the exclusion of these four led to the election of Page supporter Archie Cameron as the party's next leader. In 1940,Cameron defected to the UAP,and the Country Party in South Australia ceased to exist;Badman became,in effect,a UAP member. He was defeated in 1943,and returned to farming. He was President of the Primary Producers' Union of South Australia from 1954 to 1961. Badman died in 1977.
Albert Edward Smith was an Australian politician. Born in Kent,England,he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at Clare in South Australia. He became a service station proprietor and served on Clare Council. In 1943,he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Division of Wakefield,defeating the sitting United Australia Party member,Jack Duncan-Hughes. He held the seat until his defeat in 1946 by Philip McBride,the candidate for the UAP's successor,the Liberal Party. Smith died in 1965.
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1931 Australian federal election. The election was held on 19 December 1931.
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1934 Australian federal election. The election was held on 15 September 1934.
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1940 Australian federal election. The election was held on 21 September 1940.
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1946 Australian federal election. The election was held on 28 September 1946.
Elections to the 55th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday,26 March 2011. The 16-year-incumbent Labor Party government led by Premier Kristina Keneally was defeated in a landslide by the Liberal–National Coalition opposition led by Barry O'Farrell. Labor suffered a two-party swing of 16.4 points,the largest against a sitting government at any level in Australia since World War II. From 48 seats at dissolution,Labor was knocked down to 20 seats—the worst defeat of a sitting government in New South Wales history,and one of the worst of a state government in Australia since federation. The Coalition picked up a 34-seat swing to win a strong majority,with 69 seats–the largest majority government,in terms of percentage of seats controlled,in NSW history. It is only the third time since 1941 that a NSW Labor government has been defeated.
George Roy William McDonald was an Australian politician.
Percival Hillam Quirke was an Australian politician.
The United Australia Party (UAP),formerly known as Clive Palmer's United Australia Party and the Palmer United Party (PUP),is a currently deregistered Australian political party formed by mining magnate Clive Palmer in April 2013. The party was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission in 2017,revived and re-registered in 2018,and voluntarily deregistered in 2022. The party fielded candidates in all 150 House of Representatives seats at the 2013 federal election. Palmer,the party's leader,was elected to the Division of Fairfax and it reached a peak of three senators following the rerun of the Western Australian senate election in 2014. When the party was revived under its original name in 2018,it was represented by ex-One Nation senator Brian Burston in the federal parliament.
