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Australia's Voice
Australia's Voice (AV) is an Australian political party founded in 2024 by independent and former Labor senator Fatima Payman. History Party founder Fatima Payman was elected to the Senate in May 2022 on the Australian Labor Party (ALP) ticket for Western Australia. She sat with the party until resigning in July 2024 following her crossing the floor on a Senate resolution supporting Australian recognition of Palestinian statehood, and subsequent caucus suspension. She subsequently sat as an independent senator until 9 October 2024, when she announced the formation of Australia's Voice. At a press conference launching the party, Payman stated that any elected AV MPs would be allowed conscience votes on any bill before parliament. When asked about where the party sits within the Overton window, Payman said: “The ideological spectrum of whether you sit on the left or right, this is not what we're talking about here. This is a party for all Australians. We're going to ensure that ...
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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 ...
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Right-wing Politics
Right-wing politics is the range of Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideologies that view certain social orders and Social stratification, hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, or tradition. Hierarchy and Social inequality, inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences or competition in market economies. Right-wing politics are considered the counterpart to left-wing politics, and the left–right political spectrum is the most common political spectrum. The right includes social conservatives and fiscal conservatives, as well as right-libertarianism, right-libertarians. "Right" and "right-wing" have been variously used as compliments and pejoratives describing neoliberal, conservative, and fascist economic and social ideas. Positions The following positions are typically associated with right-wing politics. Anti-com ...
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Australian Labor Party Breakaway Groups
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the countr ...
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Next Australian Federal Election
The next Australian federal election will be held on or before 20 May 2028 (for the House and half the Senate) or on before 23 September 2028 (for just the House) or on or before 18 March 2028 (for the entirety of both houses) to elect members of the House of Representatives and half of the Senate to the 49th Parliament of Australia. It is expected that the incumbent Labor majority government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, will seek a third three-year term in government. They are expected to be challenged by the LiberalNational Coalition, led by opposition leader Sussan Ley. It is expected that the Australian Greens, Pauline Hanson's One Nation, and other minor parties and independents will contest the election. Australia has compulsory voting, with preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member seats. Background Electoral system Members of the House of Representatives are elected by full preferential voting. Each electorate elects one member. Senators ...
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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 ...
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Australian Electoral Commission
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is the independent statutory agency of the Australian Government responsible for the management and oversight of Australian federal elections, plebiscites, referendums and some trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ... elections. History The ''Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902'' set up the framework for the Commonwealth electoral system, which was administered until 1916 as a branch of the Department of Home Affairs (1901–16), Department of Home Affairs, by the Department of Home and Territories until 1928, back to Department of Home Affairs (1928–32), Department of Home Affairs to 1932, and then Department of the Interior (1932–39), Department of the Interior until 1972. The Australian Electoral Office was cre ...
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Glenn Druery
Glenn William Druery is an Australian political strategist, electoral campaigner and ultra-distance cyclist. He has played a leading role in the electoral success of various micro and minor parties in Australia since the mid-1990s. He acquired a reputation through his Minor Party Alliance as the "preference whisperer" of Australian politics. As of March 2025, he is the chief of staff for Australia's Voice senator Fatima Payman. Cycling After overcoming a serious illness in his 30s, Druery competed in the Race Across America (RAAM) four times, in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2012. In 2009 his four-man team, Team RANS, won the 5,000 km event in 6 days 3 hours and 40 minutes. During his 2012 RAAM Druery won his race category, generated media attention for victims of the HIV virus, especially in the third world and raised money for HIV research. In 2003 and 2007 he participated in the 1,200 km Paris–Brest–Paris (PBP) cycling event. Politics In 1996, Druery was instrumenta ...
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Australian Voice Party
The Australian Voice Party (AVP) was a right-wing Australian political party. It was registered with the Australian Electoral Commission on 2 July 2013 and deregistered on 23 July 2015, although its website remains online as of November 2024. History The AVP endorsed candidates in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia at the 2013 federal election The 2013 Australian federal election to elect the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia took place on Saturday, 7 September 2013. The centre-right Liberal/National Coalition opposition led by Opposition leader Tony Abbott of the Liberal .... The party also contested the 2014 special Senate election in Western Australia, receiving 0.08% of the vote. Following the 2013 election, the party elected a new leadership team, with Jamie Cavanough as president and Bevan Collingwood as national secretary. Cavanough resigned as president and from the party on 28 February 2015. The AVP was deregistered by the AEC ...
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Nova Peris
Nova Maree Peris (born 25 February 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey ( Hockeyroos) team at the 1996 Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. She later switched sports to sprinting and went to the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 2000 Olympic Games. She was elected to the Australian Senate at the 2013 federal election, after then Prime Minister Julia Gillard named her as a "captain's pick", installing her as the preselected Labor candidate over incumbent Labor senator Trish Crossin. She retired from the Senate in 2016. Early life and education Peris was born in Darwin, Northern Territory. Her biological father was Indigenous rights activist John Christophersen, although she had no contact with him between the ages of 2 and 16. Her mother, Joan, had been removed from her own mother, and raised in the Catholic mission on Melville Island, as one of the ...
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Uphold And Recognise
The 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum was a constitutional referendum held on 14October 2023 in which the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice was rejected. Voters were asked to approve an alteration to the Australian Constitution that would recognise Indigenous Australians in the document through prescribing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice that would have been able to make representations to Federal Parliament and the executive government on "matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples". The proposal was rejected nationally and by a majority in every state, thus failing to secure the double majority required for amendment by section 128 of the constitution. The Australian Capital Territory was the only state or territory with a majority of "yes" votes. Analysis of surveys following the referendum identified the main reasons why the majority of Australians voted no was a scepticism of rights fo ...
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Megan Davis
Megan Jane Davis (born October 1975) is a Scientia Professor, international human rights lawyer and constitutional law expert. She is currently the Harvard University Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australia Studies and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. She holds the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law at UNSW and is the Director of the Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW. Davis was a United Nations expert on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2011-2016) and UN expert on Indigenous rights on the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) (2017-2022). She was the first Indigenous woman from Australia to be elected via ECOSOC competitive elections to serve on a United Nations body and also served as Rapporteur and Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Davis also served as deputy chair and Chair of EMRIP. During her two terms Prof Davis held portfolios including Administration of Justice and Gender and Women and was ...
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The Australian
''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet daily newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964. As the only Australian daily newspaper distributed nationally, its readership of both print and online editions was 2,394,000. Its editorial line has been self-described over time as centre-right. Mitchell, Chris (9 March 2006)The Media Report. Australian Broadcasting Company. Parent companies ''The Australian'' is published by News Corp Australia, an asset of News Corp, which also owns the sole daily newspapers in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, and Darwin, and the most circulated metropolitan daily newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne. News Corp's chairman and founder is Rupert Murdoch. ''The Australian'' integrates content from overseas newspapers owned by News Corp Australia's international parent News Corp, including ''The Wall Street Journal'' and ''The Times'' of London. History The first edition of ''Th ...
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