The House of Assembly,or Lower House,is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital,Hobart.
The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament,the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital,Hobart. Members of the Legislative Council are often referred to as MLCs.
Michelle Anne O'Byrne is Australian politician for the Australian Labor Party.
Michael Darrel Joseph Ferguson is an Australian politician who is currently the Deputy Premier of Tasmania since April 2022. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the Division of Bass since the 2010 state election. Ferguson was appointed to cabinet after his party's victory in the 2014 state election and has served continuously as Minister in a range of portfolios including Finance,Health,Infrastructure,Transport,State Growth and Science and Technology.
Brett David Whiteley is an Australian politician. Whiteley was a Member of the House of Representatives representing the federal division of Braddon. He was elected at the 2013 federal election for the Liberal Party,defeating Labor's Sid Sidebottom,but was defeated after one term by Labor's Justine Keay at the 2016 federal election.
Helen Beatrice Polley is an Australian politician who is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate,representing the state of Tasmania since 1 July 2005.
Janie Finlay is an Australian politician currently the Member for Bass in the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
James Allan Guy,CBE was an Australian politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in both the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Federal House of Representatives,before leaving to represent the United Australia Party and then the Liberal Party of Australia in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. His father,James Guy,had also been a Senator.
Herbert Claude Barnard was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and represented the Division of Bass in federal parliament from 1934 to 1949. He served as Minister for Repatriation in the Chifley government from 1946 to 1949. His son Lance Barnard also entered federal politics and served as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia in the 1970s.
William Hartnoll was an Australian politician. Born in Longford,Van Diemen's Land,he was educated at Launceston Grammar School before becoming a shopkeeper,auctioneer and landowner. In 1884 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for South Launceston,transferring to Launceston in 1897. He was Minister for Lands and Works from 1892 to 1894. In 1901,Hartnoll contested the first federal election as a Free Trade candidate for the five-member Division of Tasmania,but was unsuccessful. However,in 1902,he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in a by-election for Tasmania resulting from the death of sitting Free Trade MP Frederick Piesse. Hartnoll was successful,although there was a legal challenge to his election because he had nominated for candidacy via telegram and not by submitting a signed nomination form. In 1903,following the division of Tasmania into individual electorates,he contested the seat of Bass,but was defeated by the Protectionist candidate David Storrer. He died in 1932.
Charles Richard Howroyd was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1909 until 1917,representing the Australian Labor Party until leaving the party in the 1916 Labor split. He was then elected to the Australian House of Representatives at the 1917 federal election,but died only five days later.
David Storrer was an Australian politician.
David Sydney"Syd" Jackson was an Australian politician. He was a Nationalist Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1919 to 1929,representing the electorate of Bass.
William Edward Aylett was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1938 to 1965,representing the Labor Party (ALP). He worked as a miner,mail contractor,and farmer before entering politics. He was first elected to the Senate at the age of 36 and won re-election on five more occasions.
David O'Byrne is an Australian trade unionist and politician. A prominent union leader prior to entering politics and the brother of fellow politician Michelle O'Byrne,he has been an Independent member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly since 2024,after previously serving as a Labor Party member from 2018 to 2024,and from 2010 to 2014,representing the electorate of Franklin.
Brian Neal Wightman is an Australian politician who served as Attorney-General of Tasmania from 2010 to 2014.
Jonathon Roy Duniam is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has served as a Senator for Tasmania since the 2016 federal election. He served as an assistant minister in the Morrison government from 2019 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. Prior to entering parliament Duniam was a political staffer,including as deputy chief of staff to Tasmanian premier Will Hodgman.
The Tasmanian Nationals are a political party in the Australian state of Tasmania,aligned with the National Party of Australia. The party is not currently registered with the Tasmanian Electoral Commission,and is not separately registered with the Australian Electoral Commission,unlike the other state branches of the Nationals.
The Tasmanian Labor Party,officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as Tasmanian Labor,is the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party. It has been one of the most successful state Labor parties in Australia in terms of electoral success.
Bridget Kathleen Archer is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2019 federal election. She is a member of the Liberal Party and represents the Division of Bass in Tasmania.
