Julian John James McGauran is an Australian former politician who served as a member of the Australian Senate,representing the state of Victoria. Elected as a member of the National Party,he resigned from the Nationals and joined the Liberal Party of Australia in February 2006. His brother,Peter McGauran,was the National member for Gippsland until 2008,and was Minister for Agriculture in the Howard government.
The Division of Corangamite is an Australian electoral division in the state of Victoria. The division was proclaimed in 1900,and was one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first federal election. It is named for Lake Corangamite,although the lake no longer falls within the division's boundaries.
Mitchell Peter Fifield is an Australian politician and diplomat who last served as the Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations. He previously served as a Senator for Victoria from 2004 to 2019,representing the Liberal Party. He was a government minister in the Abbott,Turnbull,and Morrison governments,serving as Assistant Minister for Social Services (2013–2015),Manager of Government Business in the Senate (2013–2015),Minister for Communications (2015–2019),and Minister for the Arts (2015–2019).
The Libertarian Party,formerly known as the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),is an Australian political party founded in Canberra in 2001. The party espouses smaller government and supports policies that are based on classical liberal,libertarian principles,such as lower taxes,opposing restrictions on civil liberties,decentralisation,uranium mining,and the relaxation of smoking laws.
Cory Bernardi is an Australian conservative political commentator and former politician. He was a Senator for South Australia from 2006 to 2020,and was the leader of the Australian Conservatives,a minor political party he founded in 2017 but disbanded in 2019. He is a former member of the Liberal Party of Australia,having represented the party in the Senate from 2006 to 2017. He is the author of The Conservative Revolution.
Bernard Thomas Christopher Finn is a former Australian politician who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing the Western Metropolitan Region from the election of November 2006 until he lost in the November 2022 election. He was previously the member for the electoral district of Tullamarine in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from October 1992 until September 1999.
Darren Leicester Cheeseman is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2018,representing the seat of South Barwon. He previously held the federal seat of Corangamite from 2007 to 2013.
Bridget McKenzie is an Australian politician. She is a member of the National Party and has been a Senator for Victoria since 2011. She has held ministerial office in the Turnbull and Morrison governments,also serving as the party's Senate leader since 2019.
Simon Andrew Ramsay is an Australian politician. He represented the Liberal Party in the Victorian Legislative Council from 2010 to 2018.
Anne Sowerby Ruston is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Families and Social Services in the Morrison government from 2019 to 2022. She has been a Senator for South Australia since 2012.
Christine Anne Couzens is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since the 2014 state election,representing the seat of Geelong.
Joanna Maria Lindgren is an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from May 2015 to July 2016.
The 2019 Australian federal election was held on Saturday 18 May 2019 to elect members of the 46th Parliament of Australia. The election had been called following the dissolution of the 45th Parliament as elected at the 2016 double dissolution federal election. All 151 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate were up for election.
Edwina Jane Hume is an Australian politician who has been a senator for Victoria since 2016,representing the Liberal Party. She served as the Minister for Superannuation,Financial Services and the Digital Economy in the Morrison government from December 2020;and in March 2021 she took on the additional role of Minister for Women's Economic Security. She held both portfolios until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. Prior to her election to parliament she held senior positions in the banking,finance and superannuation sectors.
Beverley McArthur is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 2018,representing Western Victoria Region.
Wendy Anne Askew is an Australian politician who is a Senator for Tasmania,representing the Liberal Party. She was appointed to a casual vacancy on 6 March 2019 in place of her brother David Bushby.
Elizabeth Ann Coker is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2019 federal election,representing the Victorian seat of Corangamite. She previously served as the mayor of the Surf Coast Shire. Coker won her seat in the 2022 Australian federal election with a 6.5% swing to the ALP.
David Allan Van is an Australian politician. He was elected as a member of the Liberal Party and was sworn in as a federal senator representing the state of Victoria on 1 July 2019.
The Family First Party is an Australian political party based in South Australia,founded on 28 July 2021 by former state Labor ministers Jack Snelling and Tom Kenyon. As of March 2022,Lyle Shelton is the party's National Director.
Gregory Francis Mirabella is an Australian politician and farmer who was a Senator for Victoria from December 2021 to June 2022,representing the Liberal Party. He is the husband of former federal MP Sophie Mirabella. His term ended on 30 June 2022,as he failed to be elected at the 2022 federal election. From August 2022 to September 2023 he was President of the Liberal Party of Australia.
