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Candidates Of The 2025 Australian Federal Election
Candidates have been reported to be contesting seats for the House of Representatives and Senate at the 2025 Australian federal election. Nominations were closed on Thursday 10 April. The Australian Electoral Commission declared the nominations on Friday 11 April. There were 1,456 candidates in total (1,126 for the House of Representatives and 330 for the Senate). 898 were male, 547 were female and 11 unspecified. Retiring members House of Representatives Sitting members are listed in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk is used. Australian Capital Territory New South Wales On 27 July 2023, the Electoral Commissioner determined the number of members of the House of Representatives to be chosen in each state and territory. The seat entitlement of New South Wales was reduced from forty-seven to forty-six in this determination. On 12 September 2024, the Electoral Commission determined th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian House Of Representatives
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Australian Senate, Senate. Its composition and powers are set out in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. The term of members of the House of Representatives is a maximum of three years from the date of the first sitting of the House, but on only 1910 Australian federal election, one occasion since Federation has the maximum term been reached. The House is almost always dissolved earlier, usually alone but sometimes in a double dissolution alongside the whole Senate. Elections for members of the House of Representatives have always been held in conjunction with those for the Senate since the 1970s. A member of the House may be referred to as a "Member of Parliament" ("MP" or "Member"), while a member of the Senate is usually referred to as a "senator". Under the conventions of the Westminster system, the Australian Government, government of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Kikkert
Elisapeta Kilinganoa Kikkert (born 3 July 1980) is an Australian former politician. She was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from 2016 until losing her seat in 2024, representing the electorate of Ginninderra. From 2016 until 2024 she was a member of the Canberra Liberals, until being disendorsed and removed from the party. She was born in Tonga and was a full-time mother and volunteer before entering politics. She is also a practising member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and she has five children. Kikkert was disendorsed as a candidate by the Canberra Liberals in September 2024 ahead of the 2024 ACT election and removed from the Liberal Party over alleged breaches of the Electoral Act and allegations of bullying of party staff. She joined the Family First Party on 24 September 2024, and was their candidate for the Division of Fenner The Division of Fenner is an Australian Electoral Division in the Australian Capital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Barton
The Division of Barton is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the inner south west of Sydney. It is currently represented by Labor MP Ash Ambihaipahar. History The division was created in 1922 and is named for Sir Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister of Australia. For much of its history, Barton has been a marginal seat, held by the Australian Labor Party for most of the time after 1940, but won by the Liberals (or their predecessors) at "high-tide" elections. Barton's most prominent member has been Dr H. V. Evatt, who was Leader of the Labor Party between 1951 and 1960. After seeing his majority more than halved in 1949, and nearly being defeated in 1951 and 1955, he transferred to the safe seat of Hunter in 1958. A former minister in the Hawke and Keating ministries, Gary Punch, held the seat for Labor between 1983 and 1996. Robert McClelland, Attorney-General in the Rudd and Gillard governments, held the seat for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trumpet Of Patriots
Trumpet of Patriots (TOP) is a right-wing populist political party in Australia. It is registered with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) as well as in New South Wales for local government elections and the Northern Territory for parliamentary elections. The party has its origins in the Country Alliance, which was founded in 2004 by four rural Victorians and renamed to the Australian Country Party (ACP) in 2015. In 2020, the ACP changed its name to the Australian Federation Party (AFP), also known as AusFeds. Trumpet of Patriots was formed in 2021 but was unable to achieve AEC registration on its own, and it merged with the Federation Party in 2024. In February 2025, the billionaire Clive Palmer, founder and chairman of the United Australia Party (UAP), took over Trumpet of Patriots after he was unable to re-register the UAP for the 2025 federal election. Palmer became TOP's chairman, while Suellen Wrightson became the party's leader and unsuccessfully contested the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Democrats
The Australian Democrats is a centrist political party in Australia. Founded in 1977 from a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, both of which were descended from Liberal Party splinter groups, it was Australia's largest minor party from its formation in 1977 through to 2004 and frequently held the balance of power in the Senate during that time. The Democrats' inaugural leader was Don Chipp, a former Liberal cabinet minister, who famously promised to "keep the bastards honest". At the 1977 federal election, the Democrats polled 11.1 percent of the Senate vote and secured two seats. The party would retain a presence in the Senate for the next 30 years, winning seats in all six states and at its peak (between 1999 and 2002) holding nine out of 76 seats, though never securing a seat in the lower house. Due to the party's numbers in the Senate, both Liberal and Labor governments required the assistance of the Democrats to pass contentious legislat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libertarian 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] |
David Coleman (Australian Politician)
David Bernard Coleman (born 5 March 1974) is an Australian politician who represented the New South Wales seat of Division of Banks, Banks in the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives from 2013 to 2025 for the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party. Coleman served as the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention from December 2020 until May 2022. He previously served as Minister for Immigration (Australia), Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs in the Morrison government from August 2018, although in December 2019 he took indefinite leave for personal reasons. He had earlier served as Minister for Finance (Australia)#List of assistant ministers for finance, Assistant Minister for Finance in the Turnbull government from 2017 to 2018. Early life and education Coleman was born in , a south-western suburb of Sydney. He attended primary school at Trinity Grammar School (New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhi Soon
Xian Zhi Soon ( zh, 孙先志) is a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Banks for the Australian Labor Party. At the 2025 Australian federal election, he defeated the sitting member David Coleman, who had held the seat since 2013. Soon first contested the seat in the 2022 federal election, losing to Coleman. Soon was awarded the Young Australian of the Year in the ACT in 2008, and worked as a diplomat in Afghanistan. Soon also worked in the Behavioural Insights Team, a UK-based social purpose corporation known unofficially as the "Nudge Unit", was the youngest ever appointee to the New South Wales Board of Studies, and worked in the prime ministerial office of Kevin Rudd Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and June to September 2013. He held office as the Leaders of the Australian Labo .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Banks
The Division of Banks is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. History The division was created in 1949 and is named for Sir Joseph Banks, the British naturalist and botanist who accompanied James Cook on his voyage to Australia in 1770. It has always been based in the south-western and southern suburbs of Sydney, including the suburbs of Padstow, Panania, Peakhurst and Revesby. Up until 2013, it was held since its creation by the Australian Labor Party, but has grown increasingly marginal from the 1990s onward. It was almost lost in 2004, but the 2006 redistribution added areas to the west in Bankstown and Condell Park which strengthened the seat for Labor. Those areas were lost in the 2009 redistribution, which pushed Banks into new areas to the east, around Hurstville. Long-term Labor member, Daryl Melham, was defeated at the 2013 federal election by David Coleman. Coleman became the first non-Labor member for the seat, breaking a 64-year ... [...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] |
Coalition (Australia)
A coalition is formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political, military, or economic spaces. Formation According to ''A Guide for Political Parties'' published by the National Democratic Institute and the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, there are five steps to coalition building. The first step in coalition building involves ''developing a party strategy'' that will prepare for successful negotiation. The more effort parties place on this step, the more likely they are to identify strategic partners, negotiate a good deal and avoid some of the common mistakes associated with coalition building. The second step is ''negotiating a coalition''. Based on the strategy that each party has prepared, the parties come together to negotiate and reach an agreement on the coalition terms. Depending on the context and objectives of the coalition, these negotia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of North Sydney
The Division of North Sydney was an Australian Electoral Divisions, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales from 1901 to 2025. On 12 September 2024, the Australian Electoral Commission announced that the seat would be abolished at the 2025 Australian federal election, with its electors redistributed to Division of Warringah, Warringah, Division of Bradfield, Bradfield and Division of Bennelong, Bennelong. History The Division of North Sydney was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of the List of Australian electorates contested at every election, original 75 divisions contested at the 1901 Australian federal election, first federal election. It originally stretched as far as the Northern Beaches, though much of that area became Division of Warringah, Warringah in 1922. At the time of the 2015 North Sydney by-election, 2015 by-election, the Division of North Sydney had the nation's second-highest proportion (56.4%) of high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
