Frances Esther Bailey is a former Australian politician. She is a member of the Liberal Party and served in the House of Representatives from 1990 to 1993 and 1996 to 2010,representing the Division of McEwen in Victoria. She held ministerial office in the Howard government as Minister for Employment Services (2004) and Small Business and Tourism (2004–2007).
Branch stacking is a term used in Australian politics to describe the act of recruiting or signing up members for a local branch of a political party for the principal purpose of influencing the outcome of internal preselection of candidates for public office,or of inordinately influencing the party's policy.
The Division of McEwen is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. Classed as a rural seat,the electorate is located in the centre of the state,north of its capital city Melbourne. It includes the outer northern suburbs of Doreen,Mernda,and Wollert,and extends along the Hume Freeway north of the metropolitan area to include the towns of Gisborne as well as Wallan as well as many other small towns.
The 2002 Victorian state election,held on Saturday,30 November 2002,was for the 55th Parliament of Victoria. It was held to elect the 88 members of Victorian Legislative Assembly and 22 members of the 44-member Legislative Council.
The 2006 Victorian state election,held on Saturday,25 November 2006,was for the 56th Parliament of Victoria. Just over 3 million Victorians registered to vote elected 88 members to the Legislative Assembly and,for the first time,40 members to the Legislative Council under a proportional representation system. The election was conducted by the independent Victorian Electoral Commission.
The 2010 South Australian state election elected members to the 52nd Parliament of South Australia on 20 March 2010. All seats in the House of Assembly or lower house,whose current members were elected at the 2006 election,and half the seats in the Legislative Council or upper house,last filled at the 2002 election,became vacant.
Donna-Lee Petrovich was an Australian politician. She was a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2006 to 2013,representing Northern Victoria Region. She resigned with a year remaining of her second term in order to contest the 2013 federal election in the seat of McEwen,but was defeated by Labor incumbent Rob Mitchell.
McEwan,an Australian Electoral Division in the Australian state of Victoria,has existed since 1984.
The 2014 Victorian state election,held on Saturday,29 November 2014,was for the 58th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and 40 seats in the Victorian Legislative Council were up for election. The incumbent centre-right Coalition minority government,led by Liberal Party leader and Premier Denis Napthine and National Party leader and Deputy Premier Peter Ryan,was defeated by the centre-left Labor Party opposition,led by Daniel Andrews. The Greens won two lower house seats,their first Legislative Assembly seats in a Victorian state election,whilst increasing their share of upper house seats. The new Andrews Ministry was sworn in on 4 December 2014.
Anna Watson is an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electoral district of Shellharbour.
Catherine McGowan AO is a former Australian politician who was the independent MP for the rural Victorian seat of Indi from the 2013 federal election,when she defeated Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella,until her retirement before the 2019 federal election.
This is a list of candidates for the 2014 Victorian state election. The election was held on 29 November 2014.
The 2018 Victorian state election was held on Saturday,24 November 2018 to elect the 59th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election. The first-term incumbent Labor government,led by Premier Daniel Andrews,won a second four-year term,defeating the Liberal/National Coalition opposition,led by Opposition Leader Matthew Guy in a landslide victory. Minor party the Greens led by Samantha Ratnam also contested the election.
The National Party of Australia –Victoria is a political party in Victoria,which forms the state branch of the federal Nationals. It represents graziers,farmers,miners and rural voters.
Dugald Milton Dick is an Australian politician who serves as the 32nd Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives. 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 Treasurer and Deputy Premier Cameron Dick.
The Victorian Labor Party,officially known as the Australian Labor Party and commonly referred to simply as Victorian Labor,is the Victorian state branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The branch is currently the ruling party in the state of Victoria and is led by Jacinta Allan,who has served concurrently as premier of Victoria since 2023.
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 electoral division results for the Australian 2007 federal election in the state of Victoria.
Independent Labor is a description used in Australian politics,often to designate a politician who is an Australian Labor Party (ALP) member but not endorsed by the party at elections or if siting in a parliament,not a member of the Labor party room caucus. The label has also been used to describe candidate who identify with the labour movement,but not the ALP.
The Democratic Labour Party (DLP),formerly known as the Democratic Labor Party of Australia,is an Australian political party. It was formed in 1978 by members of the original Democratic Labour Party which broke off from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as a result of the 1955 ALP split.
