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Opposition (Tasmania)
The Opposition in the Australian state of Tasmania comprises the largest party not in Government. The Opposition's purpose is to hold the Government to account and constitute a "Government-in-waiting" should the existing Government fall. To that end, a Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Ministers for the various government departments question the Premier and Ministers on Government policy and administration, and formulate the policy the Opposition would pursue in Government. It is sometimes styled " His Majesty's Loyal Opposition" to demonstrate that although it opposes the Government, it remains loyal to the King. The current Leader of the Opposition is Labor Leader Dean Winter and Anita Dow is the Deputy Leader. Current shadow ministry The most recent shadow ministry was announced on 13 July 2021. It is led by Opposition Leader Rebecca White. See also *Government of Tasmania *Opposition (Australia) In Australian parliamentary practice, the Opposition or the Offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States And Territories Of Australia
The states and territories are the national subdivisions and second level of government of Australia. The states are partially sovereignty, sovereign, administrative divisions that are autonomous administrative division, self-governing polity, polities, having ceded some sovereign rights to the Australian Government, federal government. They have their own state constitutions in Australia, constitutions, Parliaments of the Australian states and territories, legislatures, Premiers and chief ministers of the Australian states and territories, executive governments, Judiciary of Australia#State and territory courts and tribunals, judiciaries and state police#Australia, law enforcement agencies that administer and deliver public policy, public policies and programs. Territories can be autonomous administrative division, autonomous and administer local policies and programs much like the states in practice, but are still legally subordinate to the federal government. Australia has si ... [...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. Early life Broad grew up on a farm at Gawler, attended Ulverstone Primary School, Ulverstone High School and Don College. He was also an exchange student to the Faroe Islands with AFS. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Willie
Joshua Barton Willie (born 14 January 1984) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member for Clark in the Tasmanian House of Assembly since the state election in March 2024. Before being elected to the lower house, Willie was the member for Elwick in the Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two Chambers of parliament, chambers of the Parliament, the other being the Tasmanian House of Assembly, House of Assembly. Both ho ... from May 2016 to February 2024. References External links * 1984 births Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Australian schoolteachers 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Edmunds
Luke Matthew Edmunds (born 7 December 1981) is an Australian politician who was first elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Labor member for Pembroke at the 2022 Pembroke state by-election, replacing retiring incumbent Jo Siejka. Personal life Edmunds rents a home with his wife and three children in Bellerive on Hobart's Eastern Shore. He was raised in Launceston, and worked as a journalist for all three of Tasmania's major newspapers: '' The Examiner'', ''The Mercury'' and ''The Advocate,'' where he was Sports Editor. Edmunds attended Mowbray Primary School, Brooks High School and Newstead College, and studied arts at the University of Tasmania. Political career A lifelong Labor supporter, Edmunds’ first memory of politics was watching the 1993 Australian Federal Election on television, where Prime Minister Paul Keating captured his attention, as retold in his first speech to Parliament. Edmunds first joined the Party in 2006. Edmunds was elected to Clar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle O'Byrne
Michelle Anne O'Byrne (born 6 March 1968) is an Australian politician for the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party and from 2024 until 2025, served as Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. O'Byrne was elected in the 2006 Tasmanian state election, 2006 state election to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the Division of Bass (state), division of Bass. In the 2024 Tasmanian state election, O'Byrne was the second most successful candidate across the state for the Labor Party, receiving 0.95 quotas in her own right in the first preferences alone, only outdone by then-leader, Rebecca White. Prior to her election to state parliament she was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1998 to 2004, representing the Division of Bass. O'Byrne announced her retirement from parliament in the 2025 state election. Early life O'Byrne was born in Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, a grand-niece of a former Labor senator and President of the Senate, Justin O'By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Lovell
Sarah Elizabeth Lovell (born 9 October 1980) is an Australian politician. She has been the Labor member for Rumney in the Tasmanian Legislative Council since the 2017 periodic elections. Lovell was a union organiser for United Voice United Voice was an Australian trade union from 1992 to 2019. It merged with the National Union of Workers to form the United Workers Union in 2019. United Voice was part of the Labor Left faction of the Australian Labor Party. The union was ... before standing for Rumney. She defeated the incumbent MLC, independent Tony Mulder, to win the seat. References 1980 births Living people Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania 21st-century Australian politicians Women members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 21st-century Australian women politicians People from Springvale, Victoria Politicians from Melbourne Australian women trade unionists Trade unioni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Haddad
Eloise Rafia "Ella" Haddad is an Australian politician. She was first elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Labor Party in the Division of Denison at the 2018 state election. Early life and education Haddad graduated with degrees in arts and law from the University of Tasmania before working in the electorate office of the former federal member for Denison, Duncan Kerr. Haddad also worked for several Labor members of the Tasmanian parliament as a legal and policy adviser. These included roles in the offices of former Attorneys-General of Tasmania, Judy Jackson and her successor, Steve Kons, Lisa Singh when she was a member of the Tasmanian parliament, and Rebecca White MP. She has served as Secretary of the Tasmanian branch of the International Commission of Jurists, including participating in international conferences. Haddad has also served as president of the Tasmanian branch of the Fabian Society, a think tank researching progressive political ideas and pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janie Finlay
Janie Finlay (; born 2 August 1974) is an Australian politician currently the Member for Bass in the Tasmanian House of Assembly. Early life Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Janie attended the University of Tasmania in Hobart at what is now the School of Creative Arts and Media. Majoring in furniture design, she started her career running her own studio in Glebe, New South Wales. She returned to Tasmania and took up a position with the Beacon Foundation as youth coordinator. Working at Launceston College she created programme at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre to help break the cycle of reoffending. After securing backing from Federal and State Governments for her scheme, she then had to convince her local government of the merits of such a programme. Local Politics & Mayor of Launceston After having her education plan for Ashley rebuffed by local council, she ran as a candidate and was duly elected to the Launceston City Council in 2000. From 2002 to 2005 served as Mayor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jen Butler
Jenna Anna Butler is an Australian politician. She was first elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Labor Party in the Division of Lyons at the 2018 state election. Prior to her election, she worked for Lyons MPs Michael Polley and David Llewellyn. She is the daughter of former Tasmanian MP Heather Butler. She is married to her husband David and has three children. Butler was re-elected at the 2025 Tasmanian state election The 2025 Tasmanian state election will be held on 19 July 2025 to elect all 35 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The Liberal government, led by Premier Jeremy Rockliff, will attempt to win a fifth consecutive term against the Labor .... External links Official Website 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 Australian politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca White In Hobart (April 2021)
Rebecca () appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca's father was Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim. Rebecca's brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham. Rebecca and Isaac were one of the four couples that some believe are buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs, the other three being Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and Leah. Most scholars have considered Rebecca's historicity uncertain. Early life After the Binding of Isaac, Sarah died. After taking care of her burial, Abraham went about finding a wife for his son Isaac, who was already 37 years old. He commanded his servant (whom the Torah commentators identify as Eliezer of Damascus) to journey to Aram Naharaim to select a bride from his own family, rather than engage Isaac to a local Canaanite girl. Abraham sent along expensive jewelry, cloth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmania
Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the List of islands by area#Islands, 26th-largest island in the world, and the List of islands of Tasmania, surrounding 1000 islands. It is Australia's smallest and least populous state, with 573,479 residents . The List of Australian capital cities, state capital and largest city is Hobart, with around 40% of the population living in the Greater Hobart area. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Tasmania is the most decentralised state in Australia, with the lowest proportion of its residents living within its capital city. Tasmania's main island was first inhabited by Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal peoples, who today generally identify as Palawa or Pakana. It is believed that Abori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca White
Rebecca Peta White (born 4 February 1983) is an Australian politician. She was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2025 federal election, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the Tasmanian seat of Lyons. She was previously leader of the Tasmanian Labor Party from 2017 to 2021 and 2021 to 2024, leading the party to three state elections. White was raised in Nugent, Tasmania, and completed arts and commerce degrees at the University of Tasmania. She joined the ALP at a young age and subsequently worked as a political adviser until her own election to parliament at the 2010 state election. White was elected unopposed as state leader of the ALP in March 2017. She led the party to defeat at the 2018 election, although increasing the party's vote and number of seats. At the 2021 election, the party's vote went backwards and she subsequently resigned as party leader. White was succeeded in the role by David O'Byrne, who resigned after less than a month d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
