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1902 Victorian State Election
The 1902 Victorian state election was held in the Australian states and territories of Australia, state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria on 1 October 1902, to elect 70 of the 95 members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The other 25 seats were uncontested. There was manhood suffrage in single and multimember districts (with multiple voting), and first past the post (plurality) voting was used. William Irvine (Australian politician), William Irvine replaced Alexander Peacock as Premier of Victoria, Victorian Premier on 10 June 1902, and contested the election as the incumbent premier and leader of the conservative National Citizens' Reform League. Irvine soundly defeated the Liberals, and their Labor allies led by Frederick Bromley. This election marked the end of traditional contests between the Liberalism in Australia, Liberals and Conservatism in Australia, Conservatives in Victoria, with the Reform League made up of members from both parties. This was also the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne, Spring Street, Melbourne. The main colour used for the upholstery and carpets furnishing the Chamber of the Legislative Assembly is green. The presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly is the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Speaker. There are presently 88 member of parliament, members of the Legislative Assembly elected from single-member divisions. History Victoria (Australia), Victoria was proclaimed a Colony on 1 July 1851 separating from the Colony of New South Wales by an act of the British Parliament. The Legislative Assembly was created on 13 March 1856 with the passing of the ''Victorian Electoral Bill'', five years after the creation of the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Bromley
Frederick Hadkinson Bromley (30 November 1854 – 29 September 1908) was an English-born Australian trade unionist and early Labour leader in Victoria. Early life Bromley was born in 1854 in Wolverhampton Wolverhampton ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands of England. Located around 12 miles (20 km) north of Birmingham, it forms the northwestern part of the West Midlands conurbation, with the towns of ..., England. He trained as an artist at the School of Design in South Kensington, and became an artist specialising in japanning, a European imitation of Asian lacquerwork. Artistic career and trade union activity In 1879, Bromley migrated to Victoria, where he lived in Carlton and worked as a japanner for the tin-making firm of Hughes & Harvey. In the early 1880s, Bromley became active with the trade union movement, co-founding the Melbourne Tinsmiths, Iron-workers and Japanners' Society and serving as its first secretary. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elections In Victoria (state)
An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary association and corporations. The global use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens, where the elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot. Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1902–1904
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the 1902 Victorian state election, 1902 state election held on 1 October 1902 to the 1904 Victorian state election, 1904 state election held on 1 June 1904. From 1889 there were 95 seats in the Assembly. Victoria became a state of Australia in 1901. At the 1904 elections, 42 districts were abolished and new ones created. The abolished districts were: Anglesey; Ararat; Benalla and Yarrawonga; Bogong; Carlton South; Castlemaine; Clunes and Allandale; Creswick; Dandenong and Berwick; Delatite; Donald and Swan Hill; Dunolly; East Bourke; East Bourke Boroughs; Eastern Suburbs; Emerald Hill; Essendon and Flemington; Footscray; Gippsland Central; Grant; Horsham; Jolimont and West Richmond; Kilmore, Dalhousie and Lancefield; Kyneton; Maldon; Mandurang; Melbourne South; Normanby; Numurkah and Nathalia; Portland; Ripon and Hampden; Sandhurst; Sandhurst South; Shepparton and Euroa; South Yarra; Stawell; Talbot and Avoca; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Labor (Australia)
Independent Labor (or Independent Labour) 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 sitting in a parliament, not a member of the Labor party room caucus. The label has also been used to describe candidates who identify with the labour movement, but not the ALP. Registering a party or affiliation as an "Independent Labor" is not permitted in New South Wales under section 64 of the ''Electoral Act 2017'', and the use of the term in electoral material is also considered an offence under section 180 of the act. As of October 2024, the only MP who is a rank-and-file member of the Labor Party yet is not part of the party's parliamentary caucus is Darren Cheeseman, a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. History The first Independent Labour MP in federal politics was James Wilkinson, who was elected at the 1901 election. He had been a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministerialists And Oppositionists
Ministerialists and Oppositionists were political groupings in the political systems of several Australian colonies and states, used to describe supporters or opponents of the government of the day. The terminology had earlier been used in the same way in the United Kingdom. Prior to federation in 1901 (and for a short period after) a formal political party structure was not fully in place, and the terminology was used in the parliaments of Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia. Outside of parliamentary groupings, the terminology was also used at various elections. Western Australia At the establishment of the Parliament of Western Australia in 1890, Ministerialists were defined as those who supported the government of the day (led by John Forrest), while Oppositionists were opposed to it. Multiple candidates for each grouping could run for a given seat. The Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known as the Labor Party or simply Labor, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch)
The Victorian Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as Victorian Labor, is the Victoria (Australia), Victorian state branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The party forms the incumbent government in the state of Victoria and is led by Jacinta Allan, who has served concurrently as Premier of Victoria since 2023. Victorian Labor comprises two major wings: the parliamentary wing and the organisational wing. The parliamentary wing (formally referred to as the State Parliamentary Labor Party) comprises all elected party members in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly and Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council, which when they meet collectively constitute the Caucus#In Commonwealth nations, party caucus. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the caucus, and party factions have a strong influence in the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-past-the-post Voting
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first-preference votes than any other candidate (a ''plurality'') is elected, even if they do not have more than half of votes (a '' majority''). FPP has been used to elect part of the British House of Commons since the Middle Ages before spreading throughout the British Empire. Throughout the 20th century, many countries that previously used FPP have abandoned it in favor of other electoral systems, including the former British colonies of Australia and New Zealand. FPP is still officially used in the majority of US states for most elections. However, the combination of partisan primaries and a two-party system in these jurisdictions means that most American elections behave effectively like two-round systems, in which the first round ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States And Territories Of Australia
The states and territories are the national subdivisions and second level of government of Australia. The states are partially sovereignty, sovereign, administrative divisions that are autonomous administrative division, self-governing polity, polities, having ceded some sovereign rights to the Australian Government, federal government. They have their own state constitutions in Australia, constitutions, Parliaments of the Australian states and territories, legislatures, Premiers and chief ministers of the Australian states and territories, executive governments, Judiciary of Australia#State and territory courts and tribunals, judiciaries and state police#Australia, law enforcement agencies that administer and deliver public policy, public policies and programs. Territories can be autonomous administrative division, autonomous and administer local policies and programs much like the states in practice, but are still legally subordinate to the federal government. Australia has si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colony Of Victoria
The Colony of Victoria was a historical administrative division in Australia that existed from 1851 until 1901, when it federated with other colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the southeastern corner of the Australian continent, Victoria played a significant role in the country's colonial history and development. History Establishment The Colony of Victoria, established in 1851, was carved out of the southeastern part of the Colony of New South Wales. This separation was fuelled by a combination of economic, political, and social factors, with a burgeoning population and a desire for local governance playing crucial roles. The discovery of gold in the region accelerated its development, transforming Victoria into a vibrant hub of activity and prosperity. The Gold Rush era The discovery of gold in 1851 near Ballarat and Bendigo marked a pivotal moment in Victoria's history. The ensuing gold rush attracted tens of thousands of immigrants from arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federation Of Australia
The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia. The colonies of Fiji and New Zealand were originally part of this process, but they decided not to join the federation. Following federation, the six colonies that united to form the Commonwealth of Australia as states kept the systems of government (and the bicameral legislatures) that they had developed as separate colonies, but they also agreed to have a federal government that was responsible for matters concerning the whole nation. When the Constitution of Australia came into force, on 1 January 1901, the colonies collectively became states of the Commonwealth of Australia. The efforts to bring about federation in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservatism In Australia
Conservatism in Australia refers to the political philosophy of conservatism as it has developed in Australia. Politics in Australia has, since at least the 1910s, been most predominantly a contest between the Australian labour movement (primarily the Australian Labor Party) and the combined forces of anti-Labour groups (primarily the Liberal- National Coalition). The anti-Labour groups have at times identified themselves as "free trade", "nationalist", " anti-communist", "liberal", and " right of centre", among other labels; until the 1990s, the label "conservative" had rarely been used in Australia, and when used it tended to be used by pro-Labour forces as a term of disparagement against their opponents. Electorally, conservatism tends to be the most popular political brand in Australian history. Like other countries with a Westminster system of government (but unlike the United States), the mainstream form of conservatism in Australia is liberal conservatism. On economi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
