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2025 Australian Senate Election
The 2025 Australian Senate election was held on Saturday, 3 May 2025 to elect 40 of the 76 senators in the Australian Senate as part of the 2025 federal election. Senators elected at this election will take office on 1 July 2025, with the exception of the senators elected from two territories whose terms commenced from election day. The elected senators will sit alongside continuing senators elected in 2022 as part of the 48th Parliament of Australia. Labor was set to hold 28 seats in the new Senate, making this the first time Labor was the largest party in the Senate since the 1984 election. On 2 June 2025, Greens Senator Dorinda Cox left the Greens and joined Labor, taking the number of Labor Senators to 29 in the new parliament beginning on 1 July 2025. Australia New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Territories Under section 42 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, the senators representing the Australian territorie ... [...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] |
Gerard Rennick
Gerard Rennick (born 5 November 1970) is an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 2019 to 2025. He was elected to the Senate at the 2019 Australian federal election, 2019 federal election as a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) and sat with the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party in parliament. He resigned from the LNP in August 2024 to form the People First Party (Australia), People First Party, but failed to retain his seat at the 2025 Australian federal election, 2025 election. Early life Rennick was born and raised on a property outside Chinchilla, Queensland, Chinchilla, on the Darling Downs. In his youth he worked as a farmhand, fruit picker, bartender and pump attendant. He completed his education in Toowoomba at Downlands College, before moving to Brisbane, where he completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Queensland. He also has a master's degree in taxation law from the University of Sydney a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorinda Cox
Dorinda Rose Cox (born 25 May 1976) is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2021. A Yamatji and Noongar woman, she is the first Indigenous woman to represent Western Australia in the Senate. She was originally appointed by the Australian Greens to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Rachel Siewert in 2021, and was then elected as the Greens' lead Senate candidate in Western Australia at the 2022 federal election. She defected from the Greens to join the Labor Party in June 2025. Early life Cox was born on 25 May 1976 in Kojonup, Western Australia. She is a member of the Yamatji and Noongar (Kaniyang and Yued) peoples. Her family has experienced "five generations of child removal in her matriarchal line". Her grandfather was taken from his family and country in the Gascoyne as an infant to be raised at the New Norcia mission, where his name was changed. Cox grew up in Perth, leaving school in 1994 at the age of 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Australian Senate Election
The following tables show state-by-state results in the Australian Senate at the 1984 Australian federal election, 1984 federal election. Seven Senators were elected in each state in this election, plus two in each Territory. Following this election, the Senate was composed of 29 Coalition (Australia), coalition (27 Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal, one coalition National Party of Australia, National, one Country Liberal Party, CLP), 34 Australian Labor Party, Labor, one Nuclear Disarmament Party, four non-coalition National Party of Australia, National, seven Australian Democrats, Democrats, and one Independent (politician), Independent. Senator terms were six years (three for territories), and all took their seats immediately due to the expansion of the senate from 64 to 76 members. As the 1983 Australian federal election, previous election was a double dissolution, half of the senators elected at that election had their terms backdated to 1 July 1982, to end on 30 June 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SBS News
''SBS World News'' is the news service of the Special Broadcasting Service in Australia. Its flagship nightly bulletin is broadcast at on SBS with additional weeknight late bulletins from on SBS. ''SBS News'' is the name of the news app and website run by SBS. History ''The World News'' began as a half-hour bulletin, first seen in 1980, soon after the launch of the then-named Channel 0/28. George Donikian was the service's first presenter; veteran newsreader Mary Kostakidis began reading the weekend news in 1986. The network's long-running investigative documentary series '' Dateline'' started in 1984. Closed captioning for the ''World News'' was introduced in March 1997. In 2002, a digital-only World News Channel was launched, aimed at providing a comprehensive foreign-language news channel, mainly showing additional bulletins already seen in SBS' morning WorldWatch timeslot. No English-language bulletins were shown on the channel until its demise in 2009. ''World News ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Australia
The Parliament of Australia (officially the Parliament of the Commonwealth and also known as the Federal Parliament) is the federal legislature of Australia. It consists of three elements: the Monarchy of Australia, monarch of Australia (represented by the Governor-General of Australia, governor-general), the Australian Senate, Senate (the upper house), and the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives (the lower house).''Australian Constitution's 1– via Austlii. The Australian Parliament combines elements from the British Westminster system, in which the party or coalition with a majority in the lower house is entitled to form a government, and the United States Congress, which affords equal representation to each of the states, and scrutinises legislation before it can be signed into law. The upper house, the Senate, consists of 76 members: twelve for each States and territories of Australia, state, and two for each of the self-governing States and terr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Australian Senate Election
The 2022 Australian Senate election was held on 21 May 2022 to elect 40 of the 76 senators in the Australian Senate as part of the 2022 Australian federal election, 2022 federal election. Senators elected at this election took office on 1 July 2022, with the exception of the senators elected from two territories whose terms commenced from election day. The elected senators sit alongside continuing senators elected in Results of the 2019 Australian federal election (Senate), 2019 as part of the 47th Parliament of Australia. The Coalition (Australia), Coalition remained the largest parliamentary grouping in the Senate, despite their defeat in the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives. The Australian Greens, Greens won three additional seats in the Senate, thereby gaining the balance of power in the upper house; two senators from every state were Greens as a result of this election. Meanwhile, the incoming Australian Labor Party, Labor government's numbers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Conversation (website)
''The Conversation'' is a network of nonprofit media outlets publishing news stories and research reports online, authored by academics with professional journalist editors to produce accessible research-informed outputs. Articles are written by academics and researchers under a Creative Commons license, allowing reuse without modification. Copyright terms for images are generally listed in the image caption and attribution. Its model has been described as explanatory journalism. Except in "exceptional circumstances", it only publishes articles by "academics employed by, or otherwise formally connected to, accredited institutions, including universities and accredited research bodies". The website was launched in Australia in March 2011. The network has since expanded globally with a variety of local editions originating from around the world. In September 2019, ''The Conversation'' reported a monthly online audience of 10.7 million users, and a combined reach o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Australian Federal Election
The 2025 Australian federal election was held on Saturday, 3 May 2025, to elect members of the 48th Parliament of Australia. All 150 seats in the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives were up for election, along with 40 of the 76 seats in the Australian Senate, Senate. The Albanese government, Albanese Labor government was elected for a second term in a landslide victory over the Opposition (Australia), opposition Coalition (Australia), Liberal–National Coalition, led by Peter Dutton. Labor secured its highest-ever seat count in the House of Representatives, with 94 seats — the most in the party's history and the most seats ever won by a political party in an Australian election (tying with the Coalition's win in the 1996 Australian federal election, 1996 election). The victory was larger than expected from the opinion polling released shortly before the election, which had predicted a substantially narrower Australian Labor Party, Labor victory or min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatima Payman
Fatima Payman (Persian/; born 1995) is an Australian politician who has served as a senator for Western Australia since 2022, first for the Labor Party and then as an independent, before launching her own political party − Australia's Voice − in October 2024. Payman was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and migrated to Perth with her family in 2003. She attended the Australian Islamic College and studied pharmacy at the University of Western Australia. Payman was president of Young Labor WA and an organiser for the United Workers Union, before becoming an electorate officer for WA Labor politician Pierre Yang. At the 2022 Australian federal election, Payman was elected to the Australian Senate as a senator for Western Australia. She was the third-youngest member to have been elected to the Senate and the first female member of parliament to wear a hijab. In May and June 2024, Payman's statements in support of Palestine during the Gaza war and criticism of the Albanese govern ... [...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] |
