North West Central is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.
Peter Charles Tinley is an Australian politician and former soldier. Peter has been a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since November 2009,representing the electorate of Willagee.
Alannah Joan Geraldine Cecilia MacTiernan is an Australian politician. Since 1988,she has served in politics at a federal,state,and local level,including as a minister in the Western Australian state governments of Geoff Gallop,Alan Carpenter,and Mark McGowan. She is best known for her role as the minister for planning and infrastructure during the construction of the Mandurah line. Born in Melbourne,she moved to Perth to study at the University of Western Australia,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and later with a law degree. She worked for the Department of Employment before practising as a lawyer between 1986 and 1992. During this time,she served on the Perth City Council as well. In 1976,she joined the Australian Labor Party,and at the 1993 Western Australian state election,she was elected to the Legislative Council's East Metropolitan Region. She became a shadow minister in October 1994,and she was transferred to the Legislative Assembly at the 1996 state election,winning the seat of Armadale.
Fredrick Riebeling is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2008.
Rita Saffioti is an Australian politician. Representing the Australian Labor Party,she has been the member for the electoral district of West Swan in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly,the lower house of the Parliament of Western Australia,since 6 September 2008. Since 17 March 2017,she has been the minister for transport and minister for planning. Since 19 March 2021,she has also been the minister for ports. From 17 March 2017 to 13 December 2018,she was the minister for lands.
The 2013 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 9 March 2013 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council. The Liberal Party won a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly for the first time since the election of 1996,retaining government with 31 seats. The Labor Party won 21 seats and the National Party won 7 seats. In the Legislative Council,the Liberals won 17 of the 36 seats.
Nicolas Pierre Goiran is an Australian politician who has been a member for the South Metropolitan Region of the Western Australian Legislative Council (MLC),the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia,since 22 May 2009. A member of the Liberal Party,Australia's major right-wing political party,Goiran is a conservative Christian. He is pro-life,and opposes same-sex marriage,euthanasia and surrogacy. He has been outspoken on the issue of elder abuse,and he supports COVID-19 vaccinations but opposes vaccine mandates. Goiran has twice been accused of filibustering:he spoke for over 22 hours in total over a surrogacy bill in 2019,delaying it;and he proposed 357 amendments to a voluntary assisted dying bill and spoke on every clause of the bill.
Lisa Loraine Baker is an Australian politician who has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia since 2008,representing the seat of Maylands.
John Newton Carey is an Australian politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party,Carey has been the member for Perth in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly,the lower house of the Parliament of Western Australia,since 11 March 2017. Since 19 March 2021,Carey has been the minister for housing and minister for local government. Since 21 December 2021,Carey has also been the minister for lands and minister for homelessness. From 19 October 2013 to 30 January 2017,he was the mayor of the City of Vincent.
Barry Urban is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly representing Darling Range from March 2017 until his resignation in May 2018. Urban was elected as a member of the Labor Party but resigned from the party and sat as an independent from November 2017,after a series of scandals involving false claims of his credentials,including his educational qualifications and his wearing of a police overseas service medal to which he had no entitlement.
Zak Richard Francis Kirkup is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the Western Australian Liberal Party,and served as a member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Dawesville from 2017 to 2021.
The 2021 Western Australian state election was conducted on Saturday 13 March 2021 to elect members to the Parliament of Western Australia,where all 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 36 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election.
Patrick Possum Gorman is an Australian politician,elected as an Australian Labor Party representative to the Division of Perth at the 2018 Perth by-election.
Stuart Neil Aubrey is an Australian politician and former electrician,who was elected as a Labor member for Scarborough in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly at the 2021 state election.
James Hayward is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council since 2021,and was a member of the National Party of Australia (WA) from 2012 until 3 December 2021,when he resigned after being charged with child sex offences.
The Western Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia held a leadership vote on 24 November 2020 to determine its leader. The election was conducted among Liberal Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia. It came after its previous leader,Liza Harvey,resigned following poor opinion polling. Deputy leader Bill Marmion also resigned on the same day. The main candidates touted ahead of the election were Dean Nalder,a member of parliament since 2013 and a minister in the Barnett Ministry,and Zak Kirkup,a member of parliament since 2017. Nalder declined to nominate for the election after it became clear he did not have the full support of the Liberal Party caucus. As a result,Kirkup won the election unopposed,becoming the state's leader of the opposition. Libby Mettam was elected unopposed as the deputy leader.
Tania Lawrence is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2022 federal election,representing the Western Australian seat of Hasluck. She was a ministerial adviser and corporate manager before her election to parliament.
A by-election for the electoral district of North West Central in Western Australia took place on 17 September 2022 following the resignation of the sitting member,Nationals MP Vince Catania,on 8 August 2022. The election was won by National Party candidate Merome Beard.
The Opposition in the Australian state of Western Australia comprises the largest party or coalition of parties not in Government. The Opposition's purpose is to hold the Government to account and constitute a "Government-in-waiting" should the existing Government fall. To that end,a Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Ministers for the various government departments question the Premier and Ministers on Government policy and administration,and formulate the policy the Opposition would pursue in Government. It is sometimes styled "His Majesty's Loyal Opposition" to demonstrate that although it opposes the Government,it remains loyal to the King.
Merome Beard is an Australian politician,representing the electoral district of North West Central in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the National Party since 17 September 2022.
