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Candidates Of The 2018 Tasmanian State Election
This article provides information on candidates who stood at the 2018 Tasmanian state election, which was held on 3 March 2018. Retiring Members Labor *Lara Giddings (Franklin) – announced retirement 14 May 2017 * David Llewellyn ( Lyons) – announced retirement 15 May 2017 Liberal *Matthew Groom ( Denison) – announced retirement 23 September 2017 House of Assembly Sitting members at the time of the election are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one MHA are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are indicated by an asterisk (*). Bass Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending one seat. The Liberal Party was defending three seats. The Tasmanian Greens were defending one seat. Braddon Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending one seat. The Liberal Party was defending four seats. Denison Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal Party was defendin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Tasmanian State Election
The 2018 Tasmanian state election was held on 3 March 2018 to elect all 25 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The four-year incumbent Liberal government, led by Premier Will Hodgman, won a second consecutive term. It defeated the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Rebecca White, and the Greens, led by Cassy O'Connor. The Jacqui Lambie Network also competed in a state election for the first time, though the party did not win any seats and its leader Jacqui Lambie did not stand for election. The Tasmanian House of Assembly (the lower house) has five divisions with five members each for a total of 25 seats, 13 of which are required for a majority. The divisions correspond in name and boundaries to the five federal electorates for the House of Representatives. The election was conducted by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission using the Hare-Clark electoral system; five candidate are declared elected once each of them reach 16.7% (one-sixth) of the total formal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ferguson (Australian Politician)
Michael Ferguson (born 23 March 1974) is an Australian politician who is currently the Deputy Premier of Tasmania since April 2022. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the Division of Bass since the 2010 state election. Ferguson was appointed to cabinet after his party's victory in the 2014 state election and has served continuously as Minister in a range of portfolios including Finance, Health, Infrastructure, Transport, State Growth and Science and Technology. He is also the Leader of the House. Fergie previously served in federal parliament as a Liberal Party of Australia member in the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2007, representing the federal electorate of Bass. He was defeated at the 2007 federal election. Background and early career He was educated at the University of Tasmania, holding degrees in Applied Science and Education. In the past, his broad community activities include many local tourism and progress association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Rylah
Joan Flora Rylah (born 20 July 1955) is an Australian financial adviser, businesswoman and politician from Burnie, Tasmania. She was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party in the Division of Braddon at the 2014 state election. She was defeated at the 2018 state election, but returned to her seat following a recount following the resignation of fellow Liberal Party MP Adam Brooks in February 2019. She resigned on 27 July 2020, saying it was the right time for her to depart at the time of her choosing, and to give her presumptive successor, Felix Ellis Felix Ashton Ellis (born 22 January 1990) is an Australian politician, who was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly on 17 August 2020 in a recount to fill a vacancy for the division of Braddon. A member of the Liberal Party, Ellis is a me ..., the chance to "establish his credentials". Rylah has worked both as a teacher, and in the finance industry. She holds a number of company directorship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Rockliff
Jeremy Page Rockliff (born 5 February 1970) is an Australian politician who has been serving as the 47th Premier of Tasmania since April 2022, after the resignation of Peter Gutwein as Premier. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the Division of Braddon since the 2002 election. He was the Deputy Premier of Tasmania from 2014 to 2022 before becoming Premier. Early life and education Rockliff was born on 5 February 1970 in Devonport, Tasmania. He is the son of Richard and Geraldine Rockliff, with his father's family having farmed at Sassafras since the 1850s. Rockliff grew up on his family's farm at Sassafras. He attended Latrobe High School and Launceston Church Grammar School. He completed a diploma in farm management at Lincoln University in New Zealand, before returning to Sassafras to manage the family property. He was president of the Latrobe Football Club from 2006 to 2009. Political career Rockliff joined the Young Liberal Movement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Jaensch
Roger Charles Jaensch (born 22 April 1971) is an Australian politician from Wynyard, Tasmania. He was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party in the Division of Braddon at the 2014 state election. Jaensch has studied Science at Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university h ... and has worked in agriculture, in both southern Africa and Western Australia. He was Executive Chairman of the Cradle Coast Authority and was also a member of the Tourism Industry Council of Tasmania for ten years. Jaensch is married with three children. References External linksTasmanian Liberals – Roger Jaensch 1971 births Living people Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Monash University alumni Members of the Tasm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Ellis
Felix Ashton Ellis (born 22 January 1990) is an Australian politician, who was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly on 17 August 2020 in a recount to fill a vacancy for the division of Braddon. A member of the Liberal Party, Ellis is a member of the Rockliff ministry, serving as Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Management, Resources, and Skills, Training and Workforce Growth. Early life and education Ellis was born in Brisbane and raised in Western Australia, including in remote aboriginal communities. Ellis graduated from Hale School in 2007 before completing an apprenticeship in plumbing and gas fitting with the family business. He moved to Tasmania in 2014 after his mother had moved there earlier, and worked as a plumber on Tasmania's West Coast. Political career Ellis was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Braddon at the 2018 Tasmanian state election, before being elected on countback caused by the resignation of Joan Rylah in August 2020. Following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Brooks (politician)
Adam Richard Brooks (born 16 April 1975) is a former Liberal Party member for Braddon in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 2010 to 2019. He was an endorsed Liberal Party candidate for the 2021 state election in the division of Braddon, and was re-elected on 1 May, but resigned two weeks after the election following charges being laid against him by Queensland Police for alleged firearms and document offences. Prior to politics, he worked in the Royal Australian Navy for eight years maintaining missile systems, followed by involvement the mining industry and then as a small businessman. At the 2010 Tasmanian state election, Brooks was the second highest Liberal candidate securing 9.7% of the primary vote. He improved on this at the 2014 election, being returned as the highest polling candidate overall and achieving the highest number of votes on record within Braddon for any state election, with over 25% of the vote. Brooks was elevated to cabinet on 18 February 2016, af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Dow
Anita Joy Dow is an Australian politician and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. She was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Labor Party in the Division of Braddon The Division of Braddon is an Australian electoral division in the state of Tasmania. The current MP is Gavin Pearce of the Liberal Party, who was elected at the 2019 federal election. Braddon is a rural electorate covering approximately ... at the 2018 state election. She was Mayor of Burnie from 2014 until 2017, and previously worked as a registered nurse. Following Labor's loss at the 2021 state election, Labor leader Rebecca White and deputy leader Michelle O’Byrne resigned their positions. Dow was elected unopposed as deputy leader. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Women members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly 21st-century Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Broad
Shane Thomas Broad (born 21 August 1974) is an Australian politician; a five-time national champion and Australian representative rower; and an agricultural scientist. Club and state rowing Broad started rowing at age 14 at the Ulverstone Rowing Club in north west Tasmania. When attending university in Hobart he moved to the Huon Rowing Club at Franklin in southern Tasmania, where most of his senior rowing was based. He was selected and rowed in Tasmanian representative men's lightweight fours contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships from 1995 to 2003. Those Tasmanian fours were victorious in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003. International representative rowing Broad was in the Australian lightweight rowing squad and competed at World Rowing Championships from 2000 to 2003. He made his Australian representative debut in the Australian men's lightweight eight at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. Later that year at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmania 4 Tasmanians
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Shooters, Fishers And Farmers Party
The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (SFF) is an Australian political party. It primarily advocates for increased funding and services for rural and regional Australia, protecting the right to farm, enhancing commercial and recreational fishing, tougher sentencing for illegal firearm trade and usage, and relaxing gun control for law abiding citizens. The party was formed in 1992, and was known simply as the Shooters Party. It initially operated only in New South Wales, but has since expanded into other states. It was registered with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) in 2007, and contested its first federal election the same year. In July 2009, the party changed its name to the Shooters and Fishers Party, and in April 2016, the name was changed to its current name. The party has also gradually broadened its policy focus, with water and regional health care being its main focus during the 2019 NSW state and federal election campaigns. The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Braddon (state)
The electoral division of Braddon (named Darwin until 1955) is one of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, it includes north-west and western Tasmania as well as King Island. Braddon takes its name from the former Premier of Tasmania, Sir Edward Braddon. The division shares its name and boundaries with the federal division of Braddon. Braddon and the other House of Assembly electoral divisions are each represented by five members elected under the Hare-Clark electoral system. History and electoral profile Prior to 1955, the electorate was known as Darwin. The electoral constituency includes; King Island, the North-west towns of Devonport, Burnie, Wynyard, Ulverstone, Penguin, and Smithton, as well as the West Coast towns of Strahan, Zeehan and Queenstown. , ''Tasmanian Electoral Commission'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
