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2016 Australian Senate Election
The 2016 Australian federal election in the Senate was part of a double dissolution election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia, after an extended eight-week official campaign period. It was the first double dissolution election since the 1987 Australian federal election, 1987 election and the first under a new voting system for the Australian Senate, Senate that replaced group voting tickets with Single transferable vote#Australia, optional preferential voting. The final outcome in the 76-seat Australian Senate took over four weeks to complete despite significant voting changes. Earlier in 2016, legislation changed the Senate voting system from a full-preference single transferable vote with group voting tickets to an Optional preferential voting, optional-preferential single transferable vote. The final Senate result was announced on 4 August: Liberal/National Coalition 30 seats (−3), Labor 26 seats (+1), Greens 9 seats (− ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives. The powers, role and composition of the Senate are set out in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia, federal constitution as well as federal legislation and Constitutional convention (political custom), constitutional convention. There are a total of 76 senators: twelve are elected from each of the six states and territories of Australia, Australian states, regardless of population, and two each representing the Australian Capital Territory (including the Jervis Bay Territory and Norfolk Island) and the Northern Territory (including the Australian Indian Ocean Territories). Senators are popularly elected under the single transferable vote system of proportional representation in state-wide and territory-wide districts. Section 24 of the Constitution of Australia, Section 24 of the Constitution provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON), also known as One Nation (ON) or One Nation Party (ONP), is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia. It is led by Pauline Hanson. One Nation was founded in 1997 by Hanson and her advisors David Ettridge and David Oldfield (politician), David Oldfield after Hanson was disendorsed as a federal candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia. The disendorsement came before the 1996 Australian federal election, 1996 federal election following comments she made about Indigenous Australians. Oldfield, a councillor on Manly Council in suburban Sydney and at one time an employee of Liberal minister Tony Abbott, was the organisational architect of the party. Hanson sat as an Independent (politician), independent for one year before forming Pauline Hanson's One Nation. One Nation had electoral success in the late 1990s, before suffering an extended decline after 2001. Nevertheles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Senators From Tasmania
This is a list of senators from the state of Tasmania since the 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 Wester ... in 1901. List See also * Electoral results for the Australian Senate in Tasmania References {{Australian Senate delegations * Senators, Tasmania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqui Lambie
Jacquiline Louise Lambie (born 26 February 1971) is an Australian politician who is the leader and founder of the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN). She is a Australian Senate, Senator for Tasmania since 2019, and was previously a Senator from 2014 to 2017. Lambie grew up in public housing in Devonport, Tasmania, Devonport before serving as a corporal in the Australian Army. Attempting to seek Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal preselection after joining the party in 2011, and previously working as a staff member of Australian Labor Party, Labor senator Nick Sherry, Lambie joined the Palmer United Party (PUP), led by Australian billionaire Clive Palmer. She was elected to the Australian Senate, Senate at the 2013 Australian federal election, 2013 federal election. Her term began in Members of the Australian Senate, 2014–2016, July 2014. Lambie received national prominence for her intense grassroots campaign and subsequently her display of aggressive and vociferous parliamentary beha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambie 2017 (cropped) (cropped)
Lambie is a surname. Articles include: * Ashton Lambie (born 1990), American cyclist * Alex Lambie (1897–1963), Scottish footballer * David Lambie (1925–2019), Scottish Labour Party politician * Derek Lambie (born 1975), Scottish newspaper editor * Duncan Lambie (born 1952), Scottish footballer * George Lambie (1882–1965), American soccer football referee * Jacqui Lambie (born 1971), Australian politician * Jim Lambie (born 1964), Scottish installation artist * John Lambie (engineer) (1833–1895), Scottish locomotive engineer * John Lambie (footballer, born 1868), (1868–1923) Scottish footballer * John Lambie (footballer, born 1940), Scottish football player and manager * Patrick Lambie (born 1990), South African rugby union player * Dr. Thomas Lambie (1885–1854), American medical missionary in Ethiopia * William Lambie (footballer) (1873–?), Scottish footballer * W. J. Lambie (William James Lambie, 1860–1900), Australian journalist killed in Boer War * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derryn Hinch
Derryn Nigel Hinch (born 9 February 1944) is a New Zealand-born media personality, politician, actor, journalist and published author. He is best known for his career in Australia, on Melbourne radio and television. He served as a Senator for Victoria from 2016 to 2019. Hinch was elected to the Senate representing Victoria as the head of Derryn Hinch's Justice Party at the 2016 federal election. Aged 72 at the time, Hinch was, when elected, the oldest federal parliamentarian ever to be elected for the first time. He lost his senate seat in the 2019 election. He remained host of his weekly program '' Hinch Live'' until the election campaign period officially commenced, in a decision supported by Sky News Live. He has been the host of 3AW's ''Drive'' radio show, and a National Public Affairs commentator for the Seven Network on '' Sunday Night'', '' Today Tonight'' and ''Sunrise''. Hinch has been convicted of contempt of court three times, serving two prison sentences and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Senators From New South Wales
This is a list of senators from the state of New South Wales since the 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 Wester ... in 1901. List Notes See also * Electoral results for the Australian Senate in New South Wales References {{Australian Senate delegations Lists of political office-holders in New South Wales Senators, New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Leyonhjelm
David Ean Leyonhjelm ( "lion-helm"; born 1 April 1952) is an Australian former politician. He was a Senator for New South Wales, representing the Liberal Democratic Party from 2014 to 2019. Having been elected at the 2013 federal election, he took office on 1 July 2014, and was re-elected in the 2016 full Senate election. He resigned from the Senate in March 2019 to stand for the Legislative Council at the 2019 New South Wales state election, but failed to be elected. Before being elected to federal parliament, Leyonhjelm worked as a veterinarian and then as an agribusiness consultant. He also writes columns for several Australian publications, with a concentration on rural issues. Personal life and business career David Leyonhjelm was born in Nhill in the Wimmera, in western Victoria and was raised in Heywood, on the dairy farm of his parents Bryan and Jean Leyonhjelm.Sean McComish (8 October 2013)"Few people in Australia had heard of David Leyonhjelm"– ''The Warrnamboo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Leyonhjelm, 2014 (cropped)
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as " House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the ''Seder Olam Rabbah'', '' Seder Olam Zutta'', and ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; page 32; Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Democratic Party (Australia)
The Libertarian Party (LP), formerly known as the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is an Politics of Australia, Australian political party founded in Canberra in 2001. The party espouses smaller government and a philosophy stated in 2013 to be "broadly described as classical liberal or libertarian", such as lower taxes, opposing restrictions on civil liberties, decentralisation, uranium mining, and the relaxation of smoking laws. The party is also socially conservative. As of February 2025, the party is registered in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria (state), Victoria, and Western Australia as well as for federal elections with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). History Formation The Liberal Democratic Party was founded in 2001 as a political party registered in the Australian Capital Territory. It first contested elections in the 2001 Australian Capital Territory election, 2001 ACT election, receiving 1 percent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Xenophon
Nick Xenophon ( Nicholas Xenophou; ; born 29 January 1959) is an Australian lawyer and former politician who was a Australian Senate, Senator for South Australia from 2008 until 2017. As a centrist, populist, independent politician, he twice shared the balance of power in the Australian Senate (from 2008 to 2010, 2014 to 2017). Xenophon was widely regarded as being among the most powerful politicians in Australia and among the most electorally successful independent politicians in Australian history, eventually able to form a political party: Centre Alliance, Nick Xenophon Team federally, and SA-Best, Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST in the state of South Australia. In October 2017, Xenophon resigned from the Australian Senate to contest a seat in the South Australian House of Assembly, House of Assembly at the 2018 South Australian state election. From 1997 to 2007, he was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council, serving as an independent on a No Pokies policy platform. Whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
