The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia,the lower house being the House of Representatives.
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.
Craig Anthony Emerson is an Australian economist and former politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party,he served as the Australian House of Representatives Member for the Division of Rankin in Queensland from 1998 until 2013. Emerson also served as Minister for Trade and Competitiveness,Minister for Tertiary Education,Skills,Science and Research and Minister for Competition Policy,Small Business and Consumer Affairs in the Rudd and Gillard Governments.
The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory is the unicameral legislature of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It sits in the Legislative Assembly Building on Civic Square,close to the centre of the city of Canberra.
Zdenko Matthew "Zed" Seselja is an Australian politician who was a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory from 2013 to 2022,representing the Liberal Party. He was the Minister for International Development and the Pacific in the Morrison government from December 2020 to May 2022,and previously served as an assistant minister in the Morrison and Turnbull governments since 2016.
David Willmer Pocock is an Australian politician and former professional rugby union player. Raised in Gweru,Zimbabwe,Pocock moved to Australia as a teenager and played for the Australia national rugby team. He played primarily at openside flanker,and was vice captain of the Brumbies in Super Rugby. After his retirement,Pocock worked as a conservationist and social justice advocate. In the 2022 Australian federal election,Pocock ran as an independent candidate for one of the Australian Capital Territory's two Senate seats. He defeated Liberal incumbent senator Zed Seselja,ending the two major parties' duopoly on the ACT's Senate delegation which had been in place since the ACT was granted Senate representation in 1975.
Shane Stephen Rattenbury is an Australian politician who currently serves as the Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory 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 previously the Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly,and was the first Speaker in any parliament in the world representing a Green political party.
The 2013 Australian federal election to elect the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia took place on Saturday 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.
A general election for the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly was held on Saturday,15 October 2016.
Giulia Jones is an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorates of Molonglo and then Murrumbidgee for the Liberal Party from 2012 until her resignation in 2022. Jones was the deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the ACT from October 2020 to January 2022.
An independent politician is a person who has served in a political office while not affiliated to any political party. Many of these have either resigned or been expelled from membership in political parties,and some have gone on to form their own political parties over time. In some cases members of parliament sit as an independent while still holding party leadership. This can be for a multitude of reasons including expulsion from party room,de-registration of party and suspension of membership.
The 2020 Australian Capital Territory election was held on 17 October 2020 to elect all 25 members of the unicameral ACT Legislative Assembly.
Elizabeth Lee is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the Liberal Party and has served in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2016,representing the electorate of Kurrajong. Before entering the ACT Legislative Assembly,Lee worked as a lawyer,before becoming a lecturer at the Australian National University and University of Canberra.
The Canberra Liberals,officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia,is the division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The party has been in opposition in the ACT Legislative Assembly for much of its existence,but held power with the support of minor parties and independents between 1989 and 1991 and again between 1995 and 2001. It is currently the only state or territory division of either major party to be unrepresented in the Federal Parliament.
The 2024 Australian Capital Territory election was held on 19 October 2024 to elect all 25 members of the unicameral ACT Legislative Assembly.
The 2025 Australian federal election will be held on or before 17 May 2025,or be held on or before 27 September 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,and minor parties such as the Greens and independents.
Tammy Tyrrell is an Australian politician,currently a senator in the Australian Federal Parliament representing Tasmania. She ran in the 2022 federal election to represent Tasmania in the Senate,and was elected to fill the sixth vacancy. Her 6-year term started on 1 July 2022.
Independents for Canberra (IFC) is an Australian political party based in the Australian Capital Territory. The party currently has one seat in the Legislative Assembly,with leader Thomas Emerson serving as a member for the electorate of Kurrajong.
Strong Independents (SI) is an Australian political party based in the Australian Capital Territory.
Fiona Carrick is an Australian politician who has served as a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly for the electorate of Murrumbidgee since 2024.
