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Post-election Pendulum For The 2025 Australian Federal Election
The Australian Labor Party won the 2025 federal election in a landslide, winning 94 of 150 seats in the House of Representatives. The Coalition won 43 seats. Classification of seats as marginal, fairly safe or safe is applied by the independent Australian Electoral Commission using the following definition: "Where a winning party receives less than 56% of the vote, the seat is classified as 'marginal', 56–60% is classified as 'fairly safe' and more than 60% is considered 'safe'."Division Classifications , ''Virtual Tally Room 2016'', Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 21 August 2016. Here, 'the vote' is defined as the vote after preferences, where the distribution of preferences has continued to the point where there are only 2 candidates left. In the Opposition Seats table, blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known as the Labor Party or simply Labor, is the major Centre-left politics, centre-left List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia and one of two Major party, major parties in Politics of Australia, Australian politics, along with the Centre-right politics, centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party has been in government since the 2022 Australian federal election, 2022 federal election, and with List of state and territory branches of the Australian Labor Party, political branches active in all the States and territories of Australia, Australian states and territories, they currently hold government in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria (state), Victoria, Western Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. As of 2025, Queensland, Tasmania and Northern Territory are the only states or territories where Labor currently forms the opposition. It is the oldest continuously operating political party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opposition (Australia)
In Australian parliamentary practice, the Opposition or the Official Opposition consists of the second largest party or coalition of parties in the Australian House of Representatives, with its leader being given the title ''Leader of the Opposition''. The Opposition serves the same function as the official opposition in other Commonwealth of Nations monarchies that follow the Westminster conventions and practices. It is seen as the alternative government and the existing administration's main opponent in the Australian Parliament and at a general election. By convention, the Opposition Leader in the federal Parliament comes from the House of Representatives, as does the deputy, although the Government and Opposition may also both have leaders in the Senate. The Opposition is sometimes styled as ''His Majesty's Loyal Opposition'' to show that, although the group may be against the sitting government, it remains loyal to the Crown (the embodiment of the Australian state), and thus t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Comer
Emma Comer ( ) is an Australian politician from the Labor Party. She was elected a member of the Australian Parliament for the Division of Petrie after winning the seat in the 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 .... She unseated Luke Howarth. She is a former officer cadet. References Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Petrie Women members of the Australian House of Representatives {{Australia-Labor-representative-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Petrie
The Division of Petrie is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. History The division was created in 1949 and named after Andrew Petrie (1798–1872), a noted civil engineer, pioneer, and explorer, and the first free settler in Brisbane (1837). The electorate has a higher-than-average percentage of pensioners and self-funded retirees, and is mainly residential, with some light industrial and commercial activities. Originally a safe Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal seat, it has become much more marginal since the late 1970s. From 1975 to 2022, it was held by the party of government for all but one term. Ahead of the 2016 Australian federal election, 2016 federal election, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC psephologist Antony Green listed the seat in his election guide as one of eleven which he classed as bellwether electorates. In the 2022 Australian federal election, 2022 federal election, Luke Howarth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Ng
Gabriel James Ng is an Australian politician. He is the member of the House of Representatives for the Australian Labor Party representing the Division of Menzies. He was elected at the 2025 Australian federal election defeating the incumbent member, the Liberal Party's Keith Wolahan. Personal life Ng grew up in Doncaster, where he lives with his wife and two children. He is of Singaporean and Chinese descent. He attended Trinity Grammar School in Kew Kew () is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its population at the 2011 census was 11,436. Kew is the location of the Royal Botanic Gardens ("Kew Gardens"), now a World Heritage Site, which includes Kew Palace. Kew is .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ng, Gabriel Australian MPs 2025–2028 Members of the Australian House of Representatives Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Menzies Labor Left politicians Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Menzies
The Division of Menzies is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in the States and territories of Australia, state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The division is located in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and covers parts of City of Manningham and to a smaller extent, City of Whitehorse. History The Division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 14 September 1984, and was first contested at the 1984 Australian federal election, 1984 election. The division was named after Robert Menzies, Sir Robert Menzies, the longest serving Prime Minister of Australia, who represented the neighbouring division of Division of Kooyong, Kooyong during his time in office. The Division had always been a fairly safe to safe Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal seat since creation. It was first held by Neil Brown (Australian politician), Neil Brown, a former minister who served in the Fraser government and who also served as deputy Liber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Wilson (politician)
Joshua Hamilton Wilson (born 5 June 1972) is an Australian politician. He is the Labor member for Fremantle in the House of Representatives, serving from 2 July 2016 until his resignation on 10 May 2018 as a part of the 2017–18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis and then since the 2018 Fremantle by-election. Early life Wilson was born on 5 June 1972 in Westminster, London. As a child he lived in India and Long Island, New York before moving to Fremantle. Education Wilson has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Western Australia, and a Master of Arts (Honours) from the University of Melbourne. Career Before going into politics, Wilson served as an Associate Lecturer at Curtin University, a paralegal and litigation project manager, a freelance journalist as well as a travel writer. Wilson was a councillor of the City of Fremantle from 2009 to 2016, was Deputy Mayor of Fremantle from 2011 and also worked as a staffer to his predecessor as the memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Fremantle
The Division of Fremantle is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, electoral division of the Australian House of Representatives in Western Australia. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. History The division was created at Federation in 1900 and was one of the List of Australian electorates contested at every election, original 65 divisions contested at the 1901 Australian federal election, first federal election. It is named for the city of Fremantle, which in turn is named for Captain Charles Fremantle, captain of HMS Challenger (1826), HMS ''Challenger'', who took formal possession of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trish Cook
Patricia Ann Cook is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and is a member of the House of Representatives since 2025, representing the Western Australian seat of Bullwinkel. She worked as a nurse and midwife before entering politics. She was deputy shire president for the Shire of Mundaring, where she lives in Darlington, from 2023 to 2025. Education Cook first received a General Nursing Diploma from a St John of God hospital in 1985 before getting a Midwifery diploma in 1988, and receiving her bachelor of Health Science in 1996 from Edith Cowan University (ECU). Between 1999 and 2006 she attended Curtin University gaining a graduate diploma and masters in Occupational Health and Safety. She returned to ECU in 2016 to gain a PhD. Career As a nurse she worked in regional areas of Western Australia such as Northam, and while working under Occupational Health and Safety from 1996 she worked for the oil and gas sector until 2011. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Bullwinkel
The Division of Bullwinkel is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia contested for the first time at the 2025 Australian federal election, 2025 federal election. It was created in 2024 as part of a successful Redistribution (Australia), redistribution, a statutory process to maintain broad population equality amongst lower house seats over time and as populations shift, and thus maintain broadly one vote one value. The process was managed, and ultimately new boundaries for WA divisions were determined, by Australia's independent statutory elections authority, the Australian Electoral Commission. The current representative as of the 2025 Australian federal election is Trish Cook of the Australian Labor Party. The seat at its creation was a 'marginal seat', being Redistribution (Australia)#Notional seat status, notionally held by the Australian Labor Party, Labor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Smith (Australian Capital Territory Politician)
David Philip Benedict Smith (born 25 March 1970) is an Australian politician. On 23 May 2018, the High Court of Australia declared him elected as a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory after Labor senator Katy Gallagher was found ineligible to have been elected. Before his election, Smith was the ACT director of the Professionals Australia union. He was sworn in to the Australian Senate on 18 June 2018. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the Division of Bean, ACT, at the 2019 federal election. Early years and education Smith was born in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. He completed his schooling at Marist College Canberra, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the Australian National University in 1993. Public service and trade union Before joining the Australian Senate, Smith served in various roles including as an advisor in the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, as an industrial relations manager for the Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Bean
The Division of Bean is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, electoral division for the Australian House of Representatives in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and Norfolk Island, which was created in 2018 and contested for the first time at the 2019 Australian federal election, 2019 federal election. Geography Federal electoral division boundaries in Australia are determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. History The division is named in honour of Charles Bean, an Australian war correspondent during World War I and editor and primary author of the ''Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918''. The Division of Bean was created in 2018 by the Australian Ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
