William McCormack was Premier of Queensland,Australia,from 1925 to 1929.
The Division of Kennedy is an Australian electoral division in the state of Queensland.
The Parliament of Queensland is the legislature of the Australian State of Queensland. As provided under the Constitution of Queensland,the Parliament consists of the King,represented by the governor,and the Legislative Assembly. It has been the only unicameral state legislature in the country since the upper chamber,the Legislative Council,was abolished in 1922. The Legislative Assembly sits in Parliament House in the state capital,Brisbane.
The City of Mount Isa is a local government area in north west Queensland. The City covers the urban locality of Mount Isa,the administrative centre,and surrounding area,sharing a boundary with the Northern Territory to the west.
George Richard Torbay is a former Australian politician who was an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Northern Tablelands from 1999 to 2013. Torbay was the 30th Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly,serving from 2007 until 2011,and was the first independent member to be Speaker of the House since 1913. Prior to his election to state parliament,he served as Mayor of Armidale City Council from 1995 to 1998.
Government in Australia is elected by universal suffrage and Australian women participate in all levels of the government of the nation. In 1902,the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia became the first nation on earth to enact equal suffrage,enabling women to both vote and stand for election alongside men Women have been represented in Australian state parliaments since 1921,and in the Federal Parliament since 1943. The first female leader of an Australian State or Territory was elected in 1989,and the first female Prime Minister took office in 2010. In 2019 for the first time,a majority of members of the Australian Senate were women. At the time of its foundation in 1901,and again from 1952 to 2022,Australia has had a female monarch as ceremonial Head of State,while the first female Governor of an Australian State was appointed in 1991,and the first female Governor-General of Australia took office in 2008.
Michelle Hopkins Roberts is an Australian politician currently serving as Speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. She has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly since 1994. She served as a minister in the governments of Geoff Gallop and Alan Carpenter between 2001 and 2008. In November 2015,Roberts became the longest-serving female parliamentarian in Western Australia's history,breaking the record set by Liz Constable. She was a high school teacher,civil servant and local government councillor before entering politics.
Michael Reynolds,CBE,AM is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2009,representing the district of Townsville. He served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2006 to 2009.
Mount Isa was an electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in the state of Queensland,Australia from 1972 to 2017.
A political family of Australia is a family in which multiple members are involved in Australian politics,particularly electoral politics. Members may be related by blood or marriage;often several generations or multiple siblings may be involved.
George Hugh Alexander Mackay was an Australian politician at state and federal level. He served in the Queensland Legislative Assembly as a Liberal from 1912 to 1915,before winning the Division of Lilley as a Nationalist at the 1917 federal election. Mackay joined the new United Australia Party (UAP) in 1931 and served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1932 until his retirement in 1934.
Raymond Alexander Stevens is an Australian politician,currently serving as Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland representing Mermaid Beach for the Liberal National Party. He previously served as Manager of Opposition Business in the Legislative Assembly.
Robert Carl Ignatius Katter is an Australian politician. He serves as the member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Traeger,having previously represented Mount Isa from 2012 to 2017. He is the leader of Katter's Australian Party,having taken over from his father Bob Katter in February 2020.
Burke was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1873 to 1932,and again from 1960 to 1972. It covered remote rural areas in Northwest Queensland.
Sir Alan Roy Fletcher (1907–1991) was a politician in Queensland,Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
The 2017 Queensland state election was held on 25 November 2017 to elect all 93 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland,the unicameral Parliament of Queensland.
Robert John Pyne is an Australian politician who currently serves as a member of Cairns Regional Council,representing Division 5. He was previously a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2015 until 2017,representing the electorate of Cairns.
Angelo Pietro Dante Bertoni was an Australian politician who was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Traeger is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in the 2017 redistribution,and was named after Alfred Traeger,inventor of the pedal-powered radio,which was a significant contribution to people living in remote and rural communities in Queensland,such as those within Traeger.
