Malcolm Thomas Brough is a former Australian politician. He represented the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives and held ministerial office in the Howard and Turnbull governments.
Steven Michele Ciobo is a retired Australian politician who represented the Division of Moncrieff in the House of Representatives from the 2001 federal election until his retirement at the 2019 election. He was a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland,and sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. On 1 March 2019 Ciobo announced his decision to retire from politics at the 2019 federal election.
Luke Hartsuyker is a former Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2019,representing the Division of Cowper in New South Wales for the National Party. He served as a government minister in the Turnbull government and an assistant minister in the Abbott government. In August 2018,he announced he would retire from parliament at the 2019 federal election.
Andrew John Southcott is an Australian politician and medical practitioner. He was the Liberal member for the House of Representatives seat of Boothby from the 1996 election until he stood down at the 2016 election.
Warren Errol Truss,is a former Australian politician who served as the 16th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development in the Abbott Government and the Turnbull Government. Truss served as the federal leader of the National Party of Australia between 2007 and 11 February 2016 when he announced his decision to retire and not contest the 2016 federal election. He was the member of the House of Representatives for Wide Bay from the 1990 election until his retirement in May 2016. Following the merger of the Queensland branches of the Nationals and Liberals,Truss was re-elected in 2010 for the Liberal National Party.
The Division of Hindmarsh is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia covering the western suburbs of Adelaide. The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was split on 2 October 1903,and was first contested at the 1903 election,though on vastly different boundaries. The Division is named after Sir John Hindmarsh,who was Governor of South Australia from 1836 to 1838. The 78 km²seat extends from the coast in the west to South Road in the east,covering the suburbs of Ascot Park,Brooklyn Park,Edwardstown,Fulham,Glenelg,Grange,Henley Beach,Kidman Park,Kurralta Park,Morphettville,Plympton,Richmond,Semaphore Park,Torrensville,West Beach and West Lakes. The Adelaide International Airport is centrally located in the electorate,making noise pollution a prominent local issue,besides the aged care needs of the relatively elderly population −the seat has one of Australia's highest proportions of citizens over the age of 65. Progressive boundary redistributions over many decades transformed Hindmarsh from a safe Labor seat in to a marginal seat often won by the government of the day.
The Division of Mayo is an Australian electoral division located to the east and south of Adelaide,South Australia. Created in the state redistribution of 3 September 1984,the division is named after Helen Mayo,a social activist and the first woman elected to an Australian University Council. The 9,315 km²rural seat covers an area from the Barossa Valley in the north to Cape Jervis in the south. Taking in the Adelaide Hills,Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island regions,its largest population centre is Mount Barker. Its other population centres are Aldgate,Bridgewater,Littlehampton,McLaren Vale,Nairne,Stirling,Strathalbyn and Victor Harbor,and its smaller localities include American River,Ashbourne,Balhannah,Brukunga,Carrickalinga,Charleston,Cherry Gardens,Clarendon,Crafers,Cudlee Creek,Currency Creek,Delamere,Echunga,Forreston,Goolwa,Gumeracha,Hahndorf,Houghton,Inglewood,Kersbrook,Kingscote,Langhorne Creek,Lobethal,Macclesfield,McLaren Flat,Meadows,Middleton,Milang,Mount Compass,Mount Pleasant,Mount Torrens,Mylor,Myponga,Normanville,Norton Summit,Oakbank,Penneshaw,Piccadilly,Port Elliot,Second Valley,Springton,Summertown,Uraidla,Willunga,Woodchester,Woodside,Yankalilla,and parts of Birdwood,Old Noarlunga and Upper Sturt.
Peter William Hendy is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member representing the Australian House of Representatives seat of Eden-Monaro in New South Wales from 2013 to 2016. Hendy served as Assistant Minister for Productivity in the First Turnbull Ministry between September 2015 and February 2016;and as Assistant Cabinet Secretary and Assistant Minister to the Minister for Finance from February 2016. Hendy lost his seat in the 2016 federal election to Labor candidate Mike Kelly.
Simon John Birmingham is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 2007. A member of the Liberal Party,he served in the Morrison Government as Minister for Finance from 2020 to 2022 and as Minister for Trade,Tourism and Investment from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as Minister for Education and Training in the Turnbull government from 2015 to 2018,and as a parliamentary secretary and assistant minister in the Abbott government.
Christopher Maurice Pyne is a retired Australian politician. As a member of the Liberal Party,he held several ministerial positions in the Howard,Abbott,Turnbull and Morrison governments,and served as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Sturt from 1993 until his retirement in 2019.
Scott Michael Ryan is an Australian former politician who is the High Commissioner of Australia to Canada since December 2021. He served as Senator for Victoria from 2008 to 2021,representing the Liberal Party. He was President of the Senate from 2017 to 2021,having previously been a minister in the Turnbull Government from 2016 to 2017.
The 2008 Mayo by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Mayo,located in Adelaide,South Australia,on 6 September 2008,following the retirement of Liberal Party MP and former Liberal leader Alexander Downer. The by-election was held on the same day as the Lyne by-election,and the Western Australian state election.
Daniel Thomas Tehan is an Australian politician who was the Minister for Trade,Tourism and Investment in the Morrison government from 2020 to 2022. He is a member of the Liberal Party and previously served as Minister for Defence Materiel (2016),Defence Personnel (2016–2017),Veterans' Affairs (2016–2017),Social Services (2017–2018),and Education (2018–2020). He has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2010 election,representing the Victorian seat of Wannon.
The 2016 Australian federal election was a double dissolution election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia,after an extended eight-week official campaign period. It was the first double dissolution election since the 1987 election and the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting.
A motion seeking a leadership spill of the federal parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and Prime Minister was proposed by Malcolm Turnbull,who requested the ballot on 14 September 2015. The incumbent Prime Minister,Tony Abbott,announced that a meeting of Liberal members of the House and Senate would take place at 9:15 pm AEST on 14 September 2015 for the purpose of a spill motion. During the meeting a vote was held for the leadership and deputy leadership. Turnbull defeated Abbott,54 votes to 44,becoming the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and Prime Minister-nominee. Julie Bishop retained her position of deputy leader defeating Kevin Andrews 70 votes to 30.
Centre Alliance,formerly known as the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT),is a centrist political party in Australia based in the state of South Australia. It currently has one representative in the Parliament,Rebekha Sharkie in the House of Representatives.
The Turnbull government was the federal executive government of Australia led by the 29th prime minister of Australia,Malcolm Turnbull,from 2015 to 2018. It succeeded the Abbott government,which brought the Coalition to power at the 2013 Australian federal election. The government consisted of members of Australia's Liberal-Nationals Coalition. Turnbull took office by challenging his leader,Tony Abbott,in an internal leadership ballot. Warren Truss,the leader of the Nationals,served as Deputy Prime Minister until he retired in 2016 and was replaced by Barnaby Joyce. Joyce resigned in February 2018 and the Nationals' new leader Michael McCormack became Deputy Prime Minister. The Turnbull government concluded with Turnbull's resignation ahead of internal leadership ballot which saw him succeeded as Prime Minister by Scott Morrison and the Morrison government.
The first Turnbull ministry was the 69th ministry of the Government of Australia,led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. It succeeded the Abbott ministry after a leadership spill that took place on 14 September 2015 ended Prime Minister Tony Abbott's leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia. On 15 September,the National Party confirmed,after successful negotiations,that it would continue a coalition agreement with the Liberal Party,guaranteeing the Turnbull government a majority in the Australian House of Representatives.
A by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of North Sydney was held on 5 December 2015 from 8 am to 6 pm AEDT.
Rebekha Carina Sharkie is an Australian politician and member of the Centre Alliance party. She is a member of the Australian House of Representatives,representing the Division of Mayo in South Australia. At the 2016 federal election she defeated Liberal Jamie Briggs,and was the first Nick Xenophon Team member to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives. On 11 May 2018,Sharkie resigned from the House of Representatives as a part of the 2017–18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis. She contested the 2018 Mayo by-election on 28 July,and was returned to parliament.
