The Mornington Peninsula Shire is a local government area in southeastern Metropolitan Melbourne,Victoria,Australia. It is located to the south of the Melbourne City Centre. It has an area of 724 square kilometres and in June 2018 it had a population of 165,822.
Gregory Andrew Hunt is an Australian former politician who was the Minister for Health between January 2017 and May 2022. He was a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives between November 2001 and 2022,representing the Division of Flinders in Victoria. He has previously served as a parliamentary secretary in the Howard government (2004–2007),Minister for the Environment (2013–2016),Minister for Industry,Innovation and Science (2016–2017),and Minister for Sport (2017).
Flinders is a seaside town on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne,Victoria,Australia,73 km (45 mi) south of Melbourne's Central Business District,located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area. Flinders recorded a population of 1,130 at the 2021 census.
Raymond Steele Hall was an Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. He also served in the federal Parliament as a senator for South Australia from 1974 to 1977 and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996.
The Division of Dunkley is an Australian electoral division in the state of Victoria. The division is located south-east of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula. It covers an area of approximately 152 square kilometres (59 sq mi) from Seaford in the north to Mount Eliza in the south and Langwarrin South in the southeast. Following the 2024 Dunkley by-election,Jodie Belyea currently represents the seat.
The Division of Flinders is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division is one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after Matthew Flinders,the first man to circumnavigate Australia,and the person credited with giving Australia its name.
Sir William Hill Irvine was an Australian politician and judge. He served as Premier of Victoria (1902–1904),Attorney-General of Australia (1913–1914),and Chief Justice of Victoria (1918–1935).
Robert John Debus is a former Australian politician who served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly,representing the Labor Party. Debus has been a minister in both the Australian and New South Wales governments. He served in the NSW Parliament from 1981 to 1988 and again from 1995 to 2007;and in the Australian Parliament from 2007 to 2010.
Robert George Mitchell is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since August 2010,representing the electorate of McEwen. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2002 to 2006,and was Second Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2013 to 2022.
Adrian Gibson was an Australian lawyer,politician and businessman. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1964 to 1969,representing the Tasmanian seat of Denison for the Liberal Party.
David Charles Morris is a former member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Mornington for the Liberal Party from 2006 until 2022.
Kelly Megan O'Dwyer is a former Australian politician. She served in the House of Representatives from 2009 to 2019,representing the Liberal Party,and held senior ministerial office from 2015 to 2019.
Michelle Leanne Landry is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2013 federal election,representing the Division of Capricornia. Landry served as the Assistant Minister for Children and Families (2018–2022) and as the Assistant Minister for Northern Australia (2020–2022) in the Morrison government. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland,and sits with the Nationals in federal parliament.
Timothy Robert Wilson is an Australian former politician and a member of the Liberal Party of Australia who served as the Federal Member for Goldstein in the Australian House of Representatives from 2016 to 2022. Wilson served as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Economics from 2018 to 2021 and as the Assistant Minister to the Minister for Industry,Energy and Emissions Reduction from 2021 to 2022. In the 2022 Australian federal election,Wilson lost his seat to independent candidate Zoe Daniel.
Emma Margaret McBride is an Australian politician. She was elected as the member for Dobell in the Australian House of Representatives in the 2016 election after having been an unsuccessful candidate for the same seat in the 2013 election.
Christopher John Crewther is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from 2016 to 2019 before being elected to the Victorian State Parliament,representing the division of Mornington in 2022.
Peta Jan Murphy was an Australian politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 2019 until her death in 2023,representing the Victorian seat of Dunkley for the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
The Voices for or Voices of groups are a series of loosely related political community engagement groups in Australia. Some of the groups have endorsed candidates to run as candidates in federal elections. The independence of some of the candidates endorsed by some groups has been disputed,with some candidates receiving significant funding from the Climate 200 fund backed by energy investor Simon Holmes àCourt.
Carina Mary Lindsay Garland is an Australian politician. She has served as a Labor MP for Chisholm since the 2022 Australian federal election.
Luba Norma Grigorovitch is an Australian politician. She represents the Labor Party and is a former trade union official.
