The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) was an Australian political party. The party came into existence following the 1955 ALP split as the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist),and was renamed the Democratic Labor Party in 1957. In 1962,the Queensland Labor Party,a breakaway party of the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party,became the Queensland branch of the DLP.
Jennifer Louise Macklin is an Australian former politician. She was elected to federal parliament at the 1996 federal election and served as the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2001 to 2006,under opposition leaders Simon Crean,Mark Latham and Kim Beazley. After the ALP won government at the 2007 election,she held ministerial office under Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard,serving as Minister for Families,Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (2007–2013) and Minister for Disability Reform (2011–2013). She retired from parliament at the 2019 election.
Kim John Carr is an Australian former politician who served as a Senator for Victoria between 1993 and 2022. Representing the Labor Party,he was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
Jean Isabel Melzer (née McLeod);7 February 1926 –18 June 2013) was an Australian politician and activist. She was a Senator for Victoria from 1974 to 1981,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). A long-time supporter of the anti-war and anti-nuclear movements,she left the party in 1984 over its failure to ban uranium mining and stood unsuccessfully for the Nuclear Disarmament Party at the 1984 federal election.
Patrick Lionel Djargun Dodson is an Australian indigenous rights activist and former politician. He was a Senator for Western Australia from 2016 to 2024,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
William Albert Landeryou was an Australian trade unionist and politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served in the Victorian Legislative Council from 1976 to 1992,including as a minister in the Labor government of John Cain. Before entering politics he was a senior official in the Storemen and Packers' Union.
Linda Jean Burney is an Australian politician who is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives,representing Barton since the 2016 federal election. She is Minister for Indigenous Australians in the Albanese ministry,and the first woman who identifies as Aboriginal to serve in that position.
Sir Robert Wallace Best,KCMG was an Australian lawyer and politician who served in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. He was a Senator for Victoria from 1901 to 1910,and then represented the Division of Kooyong in the House of Representatives from 1910 to 1922. Best served in cabinet in the second and third governments of Alfred Deakin. Before entering federal politics,he also served in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1889 to 1901,where he was a government minister.
Andrew David Kennedy is an Australian former politician. Born in Ulverstone,Tasmania,he attended University High School in Melbourne and then the University of Melbourne,after which he became a teacher in Victorian state schools. In 1969,he was elected as a Labor member to the Australian House of Representatives in the by-election for the seat of Bendigo following Noel Beaton's resignation. He held the seat until his defeat in 1972. In 1982,he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Bendigo,and in 1985 he transferred to Bendigo West,a position he held until 1992 when the Labor government was defeated. Kennedy is the earliest elected federal Labor MP still alive.
Patrick John Kennelly was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne,he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a clerk in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) office in Melbourne.
John Albert Little was an Australian politician. Born in Maryborough,Victoria,he was educated at East Brunswick and Thornbury state primary Schools,before becoming a clicker in a shoe factory in Collingwood,and later an official with the Victorian Boot Employees' Union,of which he was Federal President in 1944 and 1945. In 1952,was awarded a Commonwealth Bank Scholarship for six months,to study unionism and working conditions in the UK,Europe and the US. In 1954,he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Melbourne North,representing the Labor Party.
Kenneth George Wyatt is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2010 to 2022,representing the Division of Hasluck for the Liberal Party. He is the first Indigenous Australian elected to the House of Representatives,the first to serve as a government minister,and the first appointed to cabinet.
Kimberley Jane Elizabeth Kitching was an Australian politician,lawyer,and trade unionist. A member of the Labor Party,she was a Senator for Victoria from October 2016 until her death.
Lidia Alma Thorpe is an Aboriginal Australian independent politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023 when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. She had also served as the Greens' deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022.
The 2022 Victorian state election was held on Saturday,26 November 2022 to elect the 60th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election at the time the writs were issued,however the election in the district of Narracan was deferred due to the death of a candidate.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2019 Australian federal election held on 18 May 2019. Terms for newly elected senators representing the Australian states began on 1 July 2019. Terms for senators in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory began on the day of the election,18 May 2019.
Linda White was an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was elected to the Senate as the party's lead candidate in Victoria at the 2022 federal election,to a term beginning on 1 July 2022. She was a lawyer and trade unionist before entering politics,including serving as the assistant national secretary of the Australian Services Union (ASU) from 1995 till 2020.
Kerrynne Liddle is an Australian politician and the first Indigenous federal member of parliament from South Australia. She is an Arrernte woman and member of the Liberal Party. She was elected to the Senate on the party's ticket in South Australia at the 2022 federal election,to a term beginning on 1 July 2022. She was a journalist and corporate manager before entering politics.
The 2023 Victorian First Peoples' Assembly election,advertised as the 2023 Treaty election,was held June 2023 to elect 22 members to the First Peoples' Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. The election filled 22 of 32 seats to the body,which was charged with the responsibility of negotiating a treaty between the state's government and its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.
