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Louise Kingston
Louise Kingston (born 8 June 1965) is an Australian former politician who served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, representing the South West Region. Early life and career Kingston was born in Albany. She previously worked as the state secretary of Timber Communities Australia, and as an executive officer for the Small Business Centre and the Warren Blackwood Alliance of Councils. Before being elected, Kingston worked as the manager of the Manjimup Community Resource Centre. She also ran an engineering business and farm with her husband. Previous elections Kingston joined the Nationals in 2015, and first stood for election at the 2017 state election in second place on the Nationals ticket for the South West region of the Legislative Council. At the 2019 federal election, Kingston ran for the Senate in third place on the Nationals ticket. She ran in the second place on the Nationals ticket for the South West region of the Legislative Council a ...
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Western Australian Legislative Council
The Western Australian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, a state of Australia. It is regarded as a house of review for legislation passed by the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly, the lower house. The two Houses of Parliament sit in Parliament House, Perth, Parliament House in the state capital, Perth. Until 2021, for the election of members of the Legislative Council, the state was divided into six Electoral regions of Western Australia, electoral regions by community of interest – three metropolitan and three rural – each electing six members to the Legislative Council using Single transferable vote, single transferable voting (STV).. Each Council region overlapped with a varying number of Assembly seats and contained a variable number of voters, with the rural regions each containing significantly fewer voters than the metropolitan regions. The Legislative Council had traditionally been controlled by ...
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Candidates Of The 2017 Western Australian State Election
This is a list of candidates for the 2017 Western Australian state election. The election was held on 11 March 2017. Redistribution and seat changes *A redistribution was completed in 2015. The most significant changes were: **The Liberal-held seats of Alfred Cove and Ocean Reef were renamed Bicton and Burns Beach respectively. **The Labor-held seat of Gosnells was renamed Thornlie. **The Liberal-held seat of Eyre and the National-held seat of Wagin were replaced by the notionally National seat of Roe, while a new notionally Labor seat, Baldivis, was created. **The Labor-held seats of Collie-Preston and West Swan became notionally Liberal. *As a result of the redistribution: **Alfred Cove MLA Dean Nalder (Liberal) contested Bateman, while Bateman MLA Matt Taylor (Liberal) contested Bicton. ** Eyre MLA Graham Jacobs (Liberal) contested Roe. ** Gosnells MLA Chris Tallentire (Labor) contested Thornlie. ** Ocean Reef MLA Albert Jacob (Liberal) contested Burns Beach. * ...
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The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister paper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.4 million. , this had fallen to 4.55 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first editi ...
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Shane Love
Ronald Shane Love (born 30 August 1961) is an Australian politician. He is the member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Moore, representing the National Party of Australia (WA) and is a former leader of the opposition of Western Australia. Early life Love was born on 30 August 1961 in Kerang, Victoria. He moved to Western Australia in 1974. Political career Before entering state politics, Love was active in local government for more than 12 years. He served as the Dandaragan Shire President from 2004 until 2013. On 10 March 2020, Love was elected as deputy party leader, replacing Jacqui Boydell. On 30 January 2023, Love was elected as the leader of the National Party, replacing Mia Davies after she resigned. This also made him the leader of the opposition, as the National Party held more seats than the Liberal Party. In the 2025 Western Australian state election, he was elected in the newly created seat of Mid-West. Love was replaced as leader of the ...
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South Western Times
The ''South Western Times'' is a weekly English language newspaper published for Bunbury and the South West region in Western Australia. The newspaper was first published in 1888 and was originally titled the Southern Advertiser. The name was changed later the same year to the Southern Times and in 1917 it became the ''South Western Times''. The newspaper also published an annual state pictorial feature with a goal of promoting the South-West, the ''South Western Times Illustrated Annual''. The 1947 issue featured scenes of the Pemberton pool's carnival day, forestry and other industries. The 1952 issue had prints of views in Collie and Denmark, content on cows, schools and fire controls. The distribution area includes many towns in the South West, including Bunbury, Boyanup, Capel, Donnybrook, Collie, Harvey, Balingup and Darkan. The paper is published every Thursday and in 2019 has a circulation of 6,300 and a readership of 19,000. Title history See also * ...
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2025 Western Australian State Election
The 2025 Western Australian state election was held on 8 March 2025 to elect members to the Parliament of Western Australia, where all 59 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly and all 37 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council were up for election. The Western Australian Labor Party, Labor First Cook ministry, government, led by Premier of Western Australia, Premier Roger Cook (politician), Roger Cook, won a third consecutive four-year term in a landslide victory, landslide, becoming the first party to win a third term in Western Australia since 1989 Western Australian state election, 1989. Labor were challenged by the Western Australian Liberal Party, Liberal Party, led by Libby Mettam and by the National Party of Australia (WA), National Party, led by Leader of the Opposition (Western Australia), Opposition Leader Shane Love. This was Labor's third consecutive landslide victory since winning government in 20 ...
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Western Australian Liberal Party
The Western Australian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division), is the division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Western Australia. Founded in March 1949 as the Liberal and Country League of Western Australia (LCL), it simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1968. There was a previous Western Australian division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945, but it ceased to exist and merged into the LCL in May 1949. The Liberal Party has held power in Western Australia for five separate periods in coalition with the National Party (previously the Country Party), with the longest period between 1959 and 1971. The party was the sole opposition in the state from 2017 until the 2021 election, where the party lost eleven seats, thus losing opposition status to the National Party, marking the first time the party had failed to form either a coalition government or opposition on its own. Following the ...
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Merome Beard
Merome Beard is an Australian politician who represented the electoral district of North West Central in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 17 September 2022 to 8 March 2025. She was elected as a member of the National Party, but she resigned from the party on 31 October 2023 and joined the Liberal Party. She contested the electoral district of Mid-West at the 2025 state election, but was defeated by Nationals leader Shane Love. Early life and career Beard is a great-great-granddaughter of Sir Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, the first president of the Western Australian Legislative Council in 1890. She competed as a rower at the Australian Institute of Sport and went to the 1994 World Championships. Beard and her husband have owned and ran the Port Hotel in Carnarvon for over twenty years. Political career In late June 2022, Beard was selected by the National Party to contest the 2022 North West Central state by-election for them, after incumbent member Vince Catan ...
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Whaling In Australia
Whaling in Australian waters began in 1791 when five of the 11 ships in the Third Fleet (Australia), Third Fleet landed their passengers and freight at Sydney Cove and then left Port Jackson to engage in whaling and seal hunting off the coast of Australia and New Zealand. The two main species hunted by such vessels in the early years were Right whale, right and Sperm whale, sperm whales. humpback whale, Humpback, bowhead and other whale species would later be taken. Whaling went on to be a major maritime industry in Australia providing work for hundreds of ships and thousands of men and contributing export products worth £4.2 million by 1850. Modern whaling using harpoon guns and iron hulled catchers was conducted in the twentieth century from shore-based stations in Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. A government inquiry into the industry in 1978 resulted in a ban on whaling in Australia and a commitment to whale conservation, whale protection. Whale watching ...
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Maiden Speech
A maiden speech is the first speech given by a newly elected or appointed member of a legislature or parliament. Traditions surrounding maiden speeches vary from country to country. In many Westminster system governments, there is a convention that maiden speeches should be relatively uncontroversial, often consisting of a general statement of the politician's beliefs and background rather than a partisan comment on a current topic. This convention is not always followed, however. For example, the maiden speeches of Pauline Hanson in the Australian House of Representatives in 1996, Fraser Anning in the Australian Senate in 2018 and Richard Nixon in the United States House of Representatives in 1947, broke the tradition. Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013), was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader o ...
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Western Australian Electoral Commission
The Western Australian Legislative Assembly is elected from 59 single-member electoral districts. These districts are often referred to as ''electorates'' or ''seats''. The ''Electoral Distribution Act 1947'' requires regular review of electoral boundaries, in order to keep the relative size of electorates within certain limits. Electoral boundaries are determined by the Western Australian Electoral Commission. Electoral districts are subdivisions of Electoral regions of Western Australia, electoral regions for the Legislative Council and have approximately an equal number of electors. The last electoral redistribution was completed in December 2023 and was first applied in the 2025 Western Australia election. List of electoral districts * Electoral district of Albany, Albany * Electoral district of Armadale, Armadale * Electoral district of Balcatta, Balcatta * Electoral district of Baldivis, Baldivis * Electoral district of Bassendean, Bassendean * Electoral district of Batem ...
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2021 Western Australian State Election
The 2021 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 13 March to elect members to the Parliament of Western Australia, where all 59 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly and all 36 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor First McGowan Ministry, Government, led by Premier of Western Australia, Premier Mark McGowan, won a second consecutive four-year term in office in a historic landslide victory. Their primary challengers were the Opposition (Australia), opposition Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division), Liberal Party, led by Leader of the Opposition (Western Australia), Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup, and the National Party of Australia (WA), National Party, led by Mia Davies. Several Minor party, minor parties also contested the election in the Assembly and Council. ABC News (Australia), A ...
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