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2009 Fremantle State By-election
The 2009 Fremantle state by-election was held in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly district of Electoral district of Fremantle, Fremantle on 16 May 2009. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member Jim McGinty. The Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor Party was defending a seat that they had held continuously since 1924. The by-election was held in conjunction with the 2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, state referendum on daylight saving hours. The Greens Western Australia, Greens candidate, Adele Carles, won the by-election, and in doing so became the first Greens candidate to be elected to an Australian state lower house of parliament in a single-member seat. Background First elected to parliament at the 1990 Fremantle state by-election, McGinty became a minister in the Labor government of Carmen Lawrence in 1991. He held several portfolios until Labor's defeat at the 1993 Western Australian state election, 1993 state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Carles Portrait
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer-songwriter. Regarded as a British icon, she is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting. Her accolades include 16 Grammy Awards, 12 Brit Awards (including three for British Album of the Year), an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. After graduating from the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed a record deal with XL Recordings. Her debut album, '' 19'', was released in 2008 and included the UK top-five singles "Chasing Pavements" and "Make You Feel My Love". ''19'' was named in the top 20 best-selling debut albums ever in the UK. She received the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Adele released her second studio album, '' 21'', in 2011. It became the world's best-selling album of the 21st century. ''21'' holds the record for the top-performing album in US chart history, topping the ''Billboard'' 200 for 24 weeks, with the singles "Rolling in the Deep", " Someo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 14 December 1996 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council. The Liberal–National coalition government, led by Premier Richard Court, won a second term in office against the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Dr Geoff Gallop since 15 October 1996. The election resulted in the Liberals winning an outright majority for the first time in Western Australia's history. Although Court did not need the support of the Nationals, the coalition was retained. Meanwhile, Labor attracted its lowest share of the primary vote since 1901. Results Legislative Assembly Notes: : At the 1993 election, Liberal Party member Phillip Pendal won the South Perth seat, whilst Labor Party member Ernie Bridge won Kimberley. Both members resigned from their parties during the term of parliament, and won their seats as independents in 1996. Legislative Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Willagee
Willagee is an Electoral districts of Western Australia, electoral district of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia. The district is located in the southern suburbs of Perth. Willagee has at all times been a safe Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor seat. Geography Willagee is an electorate in Perth's south, to the east and south-east of Fremantle. It includes: * the suburbs of Willagee, Western Australia, Willagee, Kardinya, Western Australia, Kardinya and Murdoch, Western Australia, Murdoch from the City of Melville; * the suburbs of O'Connor, Western Australia, O'Connor and Samson, Western Australia, Samson from the City of Fremantle; * the suburbs of Coolbellup, Western Australia, Coolbellup, Bibra Lake, Western Australia, Bibra Lake, North Lake, Western Australia, North Lake and South Lake, Western Australia, South Lake from the City of Cockburn. History Willagee was first creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic Party (Australia)
The Christian Democratic Party (CDP) was a Christian democratic political party in Australia, founded in 1977, under the name Call to Australia Party, by a group of Christian ministers in New South Wales. One of the co-founders, Fred Nile, a Congregational Church minister, ran as their upper house candidate in the NSW State election. The Christian Democratic Party's platform espoused social conservatism. It changed its name in 1998. The party was primarily active in New South Wales and, after the 1981 NSW state election, had at least one member in that state's Legislative Council, often holding or sharing the balance of power. The Christian Democrats never succeeded in having a member elected to federal parliament, although John Bradford briefly sat with the party in the House of Representatives after defecting from the Liberal Party before the 1998 federal election. In 2011, the Victorian and Western Australian branches of the CDP voted to form a new party, leading to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Fremantle
The City of Fremantle is a local government areas of Western Australia, local government area in the south of Perth, Western Australia. The City covers an area of , and lies about southwest of the Perth central business district. History The City of Fremantle is named after Charles Fremantle, who in 1829 claimed for George IV "all that part of New Holland (Australia) which is not included within the territory of New South Wales". In 1848 a town trust was formed comprising a chairman and a committee of five. For the next twenty-three years they set about constructing roads and many public buildings with the use of convict labour. By 1870 the population of Fremantle had reached 3,796 and it was a moderately flourishing town, resulting in a move among the colonists to secure greater control of the management of their affairs. The Municipality of Fremantle was formed on 21 February 1871, with the new council having a chairman and nine councillors. Two of the major achievement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Australian Federal Election
The 2007 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 24 November 2007. All 150 seats in the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives and 40 of the seats in the 76-member Australian Senate, Senate were up for election. The election featured a 39-day campaign, with 13.6 million Australians enrolled to vote. The centre-left Australian Labor Party opposition, led by Kevin Rudd and deputy leader Julia Gillard, defeated the incumbent centre-right Coalition (Australia), Coalition government, led by Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister, John Howard, and National Party of Australia, Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Mark Vaile, by a Landslide victory, landslide. The election marked the end of the 11-year-long Howard-led Liberal–National Coalition government that had been in power since the 1996 Australian federal election, 1996 election. Howard lost his own seat, becoming the first sitting Australian Prime Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family First Party
The Family First Party was a conservative political party in Australia which existed from 2002 to 2017. It was founded in South Australia where it enjoyed its greatest electoral support. Since the demise of the Australian Conservatives into which it merged, it has been refounded in that state as the Family First Party (2021). Family First had three candidates elected to the Senate during its existence— Steve Fielding (2005–2011), Bob Day (2014–2016), and Lucy Gichuhi (2017; elected on a countback following Day being declared ineligible). At state level, the party won a seat in the South Australian Legislative Council across four consecutive state elections (2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014). It also briefly had representatives in the New South Wales Legislative Council and Western Australian Legislative Council, as a result of defections from other parties. The party was generally considered to be part of the Christian right. Though it had no formal affiliation with any p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Roe
Roe is an Electoral districts of Western Australia, electoral district of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. It takes in rural areas in the south of the state. Roe was re-created for the 2017 Western Australian state election, 2017 state election, having previously been in existence from 1950 to 1983 and from 1989 to 2008. It had a notional 16.7-point majority for the National Party of Australia (WA), National Party against the Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division), Liberal Party, based on the results of the 2013 Western Australian state election, 2013 state election. Geography In its current incarnation, Roe includes portions of four regions of Western Australia – the South West (Western Australia), South West, the Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wheatbelt, the Great Southern (Western Australia), Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance. There are eighteen Local government areas of Western Australia, local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Australian Federal Election
The 2004 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 9 October 2004. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and coalition partner the National Party of Australia led by John Anderson defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Mark Latham. Until 2022, this was the most recent federal election in which both leaders were from the same city area. Future Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull entered Parliament in this election. Pre-election issues In the wake of the 2002 Bali Bombings and the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, the Howard government along with the Blair and Bush governments, initiated combat operations in Afghanistan and an alliance for invading Iraq, these issues divided Labor voters who were disproportionately anti-war, flipping those votes from Labor and to the Greens. The second issue was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Fremantle
The Division of Fremantle is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, electoral division of the Australian House of Representatives in Western Australia. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. History The division was created at Federation in 1900 and was one of the List of Australian electorates contested at every election, original 65 divisions contested at the 1901 Australian federal election, first federal election. It is named for the city of Fremantle, which in turn is named for Captain Charles Fremantle, captain of HMS Challenger (1826), HMS ''Challenger'', who took formal possession of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizens Electoral Council
The Australian Citizens Party (ACP), formerly the Citizens Electoral Council of Australia (CEC), is a minor political party in Australia affiliated with the international LaRouche Movement, founded and originally led American political activist and conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche. The ACP campaigns on "restoring Australia’s national and economic sovereignty", with a focus on banking reform, including a "Glass-Steagall" division of Australia’s banks separating commercial from investment banking; an amendment to the Banking Act guaranteeing Australian bank deposits against a "bail-in"; and a new government-owned bank, with a retail division operating in post offices. The ACP is federally registered with the Australian Electoral Commission. The party has pushed Conspiracy theory, conspiracy theories, including that international action on climate change and indigenous land rights are part of a conscious fraud masterminded by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent (politician)
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or repudiating a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
