The Country Liberal Party of the Northern Territory (CLP),commonly known as the Country Liberals,is a centre-right political party in Australia's Northern Territory. In local politics it operates in a two-party system with the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It also contests federal elections as an affiliate of the Liberal Party of Australia and National Party of Australia,the two partners in the federal coalition.
Denis Gabriel Burke is a former Australian politician. A former Australian Army officer,he served as a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1994 to 2005. He spent two years as Chief Minister after succeeding Shane Stone,but oversaw the CLP's defeat at the 2001 election,ending 27 years of continuous CLP government in the Northern Territory. Burke later served as Opposition Leader from 2001 to 2003 before being toppled,but was re-elected as leader in 2005. He subsequently took the party to its largest-ever defeat at the 2005 election,culminating in the shock loss of his own seat.
The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory is the unicameral legislature of the Northern Territory of Australia. The Legislative Assembly has 25 members,each elected in single-member electorates for four-year terms. The voting method for the Assembly is the full-preferential voting system,having previously been optional preferential voting. Elections are on the fourth Saturday in August of the fourth year after the previous election,but can be earlier in the event of a no confidence vote in the Government. The most recent election for the Legislative Assembly was the 2020 election held on 22 August 2020. The next election is scheduled for 24 August 2024.
Marion Rose Scrymgour is an Australian politician and the current MP for Lingiari. She was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2012,representing the electorate of Arafura. She was the Labor Party Deputy Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from November 2007 until February 2009,and was the highest-ranked Indigenous Australian woman in government in Australia's history. She was also the first Indigenous woman to be elected to the Northern Territory legislature.
A general election was held in the Northern Territory,Australia,on 18 June 2005. The centre-left Labor Party,led by Chief Minister Clare Martin,won a second term with a landslide victory,winning six of the ten seats held by the opposition Country Liberal Party in the 25-member Northern Territory Legislative Assembly,bringing their total to 19. It was the second largest victory in any Northern Territory election. The only larger majority in the history of the Territory was in the first election,in 1974. In that contest,the CLP won 17 of the 19 seats in the chamber,and faced only two independents as opposition.
A general election was held in the Northern Territory,Australia,on 18 August 2001. The centre-left Labor Party (ALP),led by Clare Martin,won a surprising victory over the Country Liberal Party (CLP). Before this,the CLP had held 18 out the 25 seats in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly to the ALP's 7. After this election,the ALP held the majority with 13 seats to the CLP's 10,consigning the CLP to opposition for the first time since the Territory gained responsible government. Martin became Chief Minister,succeeding the CLP's Denis Burke.
Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson is an Australian politician.
Paul Raymond Henderson is a former Australian politician who was Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from 2007 to 2012. He has been Chancellor of Charles Darwin University since March 2019.
Garry Lambert is an Australian politician. He was the Lord Mayor of Darwin from 2007 to 2008. He was the unsuccessful Country Liberal Party candidate for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly seat of Fannie Bay in the 2008 election.
Terence Kennedy Mills is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of the Territory Alliance. He served as Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from 2012 to 2013 as a member of the Country Liberal Party (CLP).
General elections were held in the Northern Territory of Australia on 9 August 2008. Of the 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly,23 were contested;two safe Labor seats were uncontested. The incumbent centre-left Labor Party (ALP),led by Chief Minister Paul Henderson won a narrow third term victory against the opposition centre-right Country Liberal Party (CLP),led by Terry Mills. Labor suffered a massive and unexpected swing against it,to hold a one-seat majority in the new parliament.
The Parliament of the Northern Territory is the unicameral legislature of the Northern Territory of Australia. It consists of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and the Administrator of the Northern Territory,who represents the Governor-General. It is one of three unicameral parliaments in Australia,along with those of Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory. The Legislative Assembly replaced the previous Legislative Council in 1974. It sits in Parliament House,Darwin.
Adam Graham Giles is an Australian former politician and former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (2013–2016) as well as the former leader of the Country Liberal Party (CLP) in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament. Giles was the first Indigenous Australian to serve as a head of government in Australia.
Michael Patrick Francis Gunner is an Australian former politician who was the 11th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from 2016 to 2022. He was a Labor member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly,holding the seat of Fannie Bay in Darwin from the retirement of then Chief Minister Clare Martin at the 2008 election until his resignation in July 2022.
Delia Phoebe Lawrie is an Australian politician. She was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2016,representing the electorate of Karama. She was a Labor member from 2001 to 2015,and served as party leader and Leader of the Opposition from 2012 to 2015. On 10 October 2015,following her loss of Labor preselection to recontest her seat at the 2016 election,she resigned from the party to sit as an independent.
Margaret Anne Hickey is a former Australian politician. She represented the electoral division of Barkly for the Labor Party in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2001. She was Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 1999.
Natasha Kate Fyles is an Australian politician and former teacher serving as the 12th and current chief minister of the Northern Territory and minister for Health. She has been the leader of the Northern Territory branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since May 2022 and a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the division of Nightcliff since August 2012. She previously served as 22nd attorney-general of the Northern Territory and the territory’s minister for Justice from 2016 to 2020.
The 2020 Northern Territory general election was held on 22 August 2020 to elect all 25 members of the Legislative Assembly in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament.
Territory Alliance was an Australian political party based in the Northern Territory. It was founded in 2019 by Terry Mills,an incumbent member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory. He had been elected as a member of the Country Liberal Party (CLP).
The 2024 Northern Territory general election is scheduled to be held on 24 August 2024 to elect all 25 members of the Legislative Assembly in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament.
