The Australian Labor Party (ALP),also simply known as Labor,is the major centre-left political party in Australia,one of two major parties in Australian politics,along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. It has been in Opposition in the federal parliament since the 2013 election. The ALP is a federal party,with political branches in each state and territory. They are currently in government in Victoria,Queensland,Western Australia,the Australian Capital Territory,and the Northern Territory. The Labor Party is the oldest political party in Australia.
Warren George Entsch is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007 and since 2010,representing the Division of Leichhardt. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland,and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.
Teresa Gambaro is a former Australian politician. She served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007 and 2010 to 2016,representing the Liberal Party. She was a parliamentary secretary in the Howard Government from 2004 to 2007.
Jacqueline Marie Kelly is a former Australian politician who served as a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 until November 2007,representing the Division of Lindsay,New South Wales.
Bernard Fernand Ripoll is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1998 to 2016,representing the Division of Oxley,Queensland. In 2013,Ripoll was made Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Shadow Minister for Sport,on 15 September 2015 he resigned from the Shadow Cabinet position.
Anna Maria Bligh is a lobbyist and former Australian politician who served as the 37th Premier of Queensland,in office from 2007 to 2012 as leader of the Labor Party. She was the first woman to hold either position. In 2017,she was appointed CEO of the Australian Banking Association.
William Richard Shorten is an Australian politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labor Party from 2013 to 2019. Shorten was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Maribyrnong in 2007,and was a Cabinet Minister in the Gillard and Rudd Governments from 2010 to 2013.
The Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) is a major political party in Queensland,Australia. It was formed in 2008 by a merger of the Queensland divisions of the Liberal Party and the National Party. At a federal level and in most other states,the two parties remain distinct and operate as a Coalition. The LNP is a division of the Liberal Party of Australia,and an affiliate of the National Party of Australia.
Maxine Margaret McKew is a former Australian politician and journalist;she was the Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure,Transport,Regional Development and Local Government in the First Rudd Ministry and the First Gillard Ministry.
Linda Jean Burney is an Australian politician,member of the House of Representatives in the Australian Federal Parliament,and the Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services and for Preventing Family Violence. She was the first Aboriginal person to serve in the New South Wales Parliament in 2003,and also the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 2016.
Amanda Louise Rishworth is an Australian politician who has served as the Australian Labor Party member for the House of Representatives seat of Kingston in South Australia since the 2007 election. Rishworth is Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Shadow Minister for Youth in the Albanese Shadow Ministry.
Dr Ronan Oliver Lee is an Irish Australian former politician and a visiting scholar at Queen Mary University of London's International State Crime Initiative where his research focusses on Myanmar,the Rohingya,genocide,and hate speech. He was formerly a political advisor and Labor and later Green Party member of the Queensland State Parliament. Lee represented the seat of Indooroopilly since he was first elected as a Labor Party member in 2001.
Yvette Maree D'Ath is an Australian politician. She is a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland representing the seat of Redcliffe. D'Ath is currently the Minister for Health and Ambulance Services and Leader of the House. She was previously a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the outer Brisbane seat of Petrie from 2007 to 2013.
James Mark Bidgood is an Australian former Labor politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives for the seat of Dawson,in north Queensland,from 2007 to 2010. He was elected at the November 2007 federal election,defeating the sitting Nationals member,De-Anne Kelly,in a major upset. Kelly was not thought to be in any danger going into the election;she had gone into the election sitting on a seemingly safe majority of 10 percent. However,in one of the biggest swings of the election,Bidgood picked up a swing of over 13 percent amid the Labor wave that swept through Queensland. He was only the second Labor member ever to win it,and the first since 1974. He retired in 2010 due to ill health.
Judith Caroline Spence is an Australian politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the Labor Party,from the 1989 election to 2012. She represented Mount Gravatt until 2009,but after a redistribution she switched to Sunnybank,which covered much of the same territory. She was Leader of the House,a role responsible for the co-ordination and management of Government business in the Assembly from 7 April 2009 to 24 March 2012.
Karen Struthers is an Australian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2012.
This article provides details on candidates who stood at the 2010 Australian federal election.
George Robert Christensen is an Australian politician and former journalist who has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since the 2010 federal election,as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Dawson. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland,and sits with the National Party in federal parliament.
Mark Craig Bailey is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Transport and Main Roads of Queensland. He has also served as the Labor member for Miller in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015.
Dugald Milton Dick is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Queensland seat of Oxley in the House of Representatives since the 2016 federal election. He previously served on the Brisbane City Council (2008–2016) and as ALP state secretary (2004–2008). He is the brother of Queensland state government minister Cameron Dick.
