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Andrew Leigh
Andrew Keith Leigh (born 3 August 1972) is an Australian politician, author, lawyer and former professor of economics at the Australian National University. He currently serves as the Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury. He briefly served as the Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2013 and then served as Shadow Assistant Treasurer from 2013 to 2019. He has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2010 representing the seat of Fraser until 2016 and Fenner thereafter. Leigh is not a member of any factions of the Labor Party. Early life and education Both Leigh's parents are academics and both came from homes of social activists "in the Christian socialist tradition". Leigh's maternal grandfather, a boilermaker and Methodist lay preacher, used the family's spare room to shelter a constant stream of refugees from places like Cambodia and Chile, who were escaping the regimes of Pol Pot and Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Honourable
''The Honourable'' (Commonwealth English) or ''The Honorable'' (American English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific Style (manner of address), style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people, usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions. Use by governments International diplomacy In international diplomatic relations, representatives of foreign states are often styled as ''The Honourable''. Deputy chiefs of mission, , consuls-general, consuls and honorary consuls are always given the style. All heads of consular posts, whether they are honorary or career postholders, are accorded the style according to the State Department of the United States. However, the style ''Excellency'' instead of ''The Honourable'' is used for ambassadors and high commissioners only. Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo In the Democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Bandt
Adam Paul Bandt (born 11 March 1972) is an Australian former politician and industrial lawyer who was the leader of the Australian Greens from 2020 to 2025. He previously served as the member of parliament (MP) for the Victoria (state), Victorian division of Division of Melbourne, Melbourne from 2010 to 2025 and was the co-deputy leader of the Greens from 2012 to 2015 and 2017 to 2020. Bandt won his seat in the 2010 Australian federal election, 2010 federal election, becoming the first member of the Greens elected to the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives at a federal election, and the second overall after Michael Organ, who was elected at a 2002 Cunningham by-election, by-election. Bandt first contested the seat in 2007, narrowly losing to the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party's Lindsay Tanner. Following his success in the 2010 election, Bandt retained the seat in the 2013 Australian federal election, 2013, 2016 Australian federal election, 2016, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carina Garland
Carina Mary Lindsay Garland (born 1982) is an Australian politician. She has served as a Australian Labor Party, Labor MP for Division of Chisholm, Chisholm since the 2022 Australian federal election. Early life and education Garland was born in Traralgon, Victoria. Her father was a general practitioner and ran a practice in Melbourne's south-east with her mother, a nurse. Her maternal grandparents immigrated to Australia from Italy in the 1950s. Her grandfather was a maths teacher at Emmaus College, Melbourne, Emmaus College in Burwood, Victoria, Burwood. Garland grew up in Clayton, Victoria, Clayton. As a child, she performed ballet concerts at the Alexander Theatre in Clayton. She attended Sacré Cœur School in Glen Iris, Victoria, Glen Iris, where she was a School Prefect. She later enrolled in an Arts/Law degree at Monash University, being awarded first class honours in English Literature. She received a scholarship to complete a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in the humanities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jess Walsh
Jessica Cecille Walsh (born 16 May 1971) is an Australian politician and trade unionist. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served as a Senator for Victoria since 2019. Since 2025, she has held the position of Minister for Early Childhood Education and Minister for Youth in the second Albanese ministry. Prior to her election to parliament, she was the state secretary of United Voice. Early life Walsh was born in Melbourne on 16 May 1971. She grew up in the suburb of North Balwyn. She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts ( Hons.) from the University of Melbourne, Master of Arts from the University of Southern California, and Doctor of Philosophy in economic geography from the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Organising the low-wage service sector: labour, community and urban politics in the United States". Career From 1998 to 2000 Walsh was a research fellow at two progressive think tanks in the United States, the Institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Mulino
Daniel Mulino (born 6 November 1969) is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the Eastern Victoria Region from 2014 to 2018. In the 2019 federal election he was elected as the inaugural Member for the Division of Fraser. Since 2025, he serves as Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services in the second Albanese ministry. Early life and education Mulino emigrated to Australia with his parents when he was 18 months old, having been born in Brindisi, Italy. His Australian mother had begun her career a teacher and his Italian father later became a psychiatric nurse in Australia. His childhood was spent in Canberra, meeting his friend David Smith at Marist College, who would also go on to serve in Federal Parliament. The family were briefly in Sydney, and Mulino studied year 7 at the selective James Ruse Agricultural High School. Having returned to Canberra, Mulino completed bachelor's degrees in law an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Charlton
Andrew Henry George Charlton (born 26 September 1978) is an Australian politician and economist. A member of the Labor Party, he has been the Member of the Australian Parliament for Parramatta in New South Wales since the 2022 federal election. He was appointed to the second Albanese ministry as Cabinet Secretary and Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy following the 2025 federal election. Charlton has been described in the media as a "centrist, evidence-based, data-driven economist with entrepreneurial flair". He is the author of several books on economics including '' Fair Trade for All'' which he co-authored with Joseph Stiglitz. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as the chief economic adviser to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, before founding his own consultancy firm which would later be acquired by Accenture. Early life and education Andrew Charlton was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1978. He attended the Knox Grammar School in Wahroonga. Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Chalmers
James Edward Chalmers (born 2 March 1978) is an Australian politician and economist who has been serving as the treasurer of Australia in the Albanese government since May 2022. A member of the Labor Party (ALP), he has been the member of parliament for the Queensland division of Rankin since 2013. Chalmers was born in Brisbane and attended the Australian National University, where he completed a doctorate in political science. At the 2013 Australian federal election, Chalmers won the seat of Rankin in Brisbane's south, entering the House of Representatives. He served in the shadow ministries of Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese, before assuming the role of Treasurer after Labor's victory in the 2022 federal election. Early life and education Chalmers was born in Brisbane, the youngest of three children born to Graham and Carol Chalmers. His father worked as a courier and his mother worked as a nurse. They divorced when he was 14, by which time his older sisters had le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Aly
Anne Azza Aly (, born Azza Mahmoud Fawzi Hosseini Ali el Serougi, 29 March 1967) is an Australian politician who has been a Labor member of the House of Representatives since the 2016 election, representing the electorate of Cowan in Western Australia. In 2025, Aly became Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development and Minister for Multicultural Affairs, joining Albanese's cabinet. She held the Minister for Early Childhood Education and Minister for Youth portfolio in the Albanese ministry from 2022 to 2025. Aly is the first female federal parliamentarian of Islamic faith and one of Australia's first two government ministers to be Muslim. She is the first female Muslim national cabinet member in Australian history. Aly was a professor, lecturer and academic specialising in counter-terrorism, and she is considered a global authority on understanding how and why young people are drawn into violent extremism. Aly founded People Against Violent Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Parliament Of Australia
47th may refer to: Chicago Transit Authority stations * 47th station (CTA Green Line) 47th is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's "L" system, located in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois and serving the Green Line. It is situated at 314 E 47th Street, three blocks east of State Street. It opene ..., on the Green Line * 47th station (CTA Red Line), on the Red Line See also * {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in Compact (newspaper), compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, ''The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an Website, online site and Mobile app, app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio National
ABC Radio National, more commonly known as Radio National or simply RN, is an Australian nationwide public service radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). From 1947 until 1985, the network was known as ABC Radio 2. History 1937: Predecessors and beginnings From 1928, the National Broadcasting Service, as part of the federal Postmaster-General's Department, gradually took over responsibility for all the existing stations that were sponsored by public licence fees ("A" Class licences). The outsourced Australian Broadcasting Company supplied programs from 1929. In 1932 a commission was established, merging the original ABC company and the National Broadcasting Service. It is from this time that Radio National dates as a distinct network within the ABC, in which a system of program relays was developed during the subsequent decades to link stations spread across the nation. The beginnings of Radio National lie with Sydney radio station 2FC, which air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
