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Terri Butler
Terri Megan Butler (born 28 November 1977) is an Australian public servant and former politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 2014 to 2022, representing the seat of Griffith for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She worked as an industrial lawyer prior to entering parliament and in 2024 was appointed as a deputy president of the Fair Work Commission. Early life Butler was born on 28 November 1977 in Cairns, Queensland, the daughter of Allison and Larry Butler. She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws ( Hons.) from the Queensland University of Technology. She also studied at James Cook University. As a student she worked for an engineering firm, at an aluminium factory and for the Australian Services Union. Butler completed her articles of clerkship in 2003 and subsequently worked as an industrial lawyer. Prior to her election to parliament, she was a principal at Maurice Blackburn and led the firm's employment and workplace relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Griffith
The Division of Griffith is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, electoral division for the Australian House of Representatives. The division covers the inner southern Suburb#Australia and New Zealand, suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. The division is represented by Renee Coffey of the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party. History The division is named after Samuel Griffith, Sir Samuel Griffith, former politician and a principal author of the Constitution of Australia. Griffith was created in 1934, replacing the seat of Division of Oxley (1901–34), Oxley which had been established in 1900. Historically, the seat has been highly marginal and has alternated between the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party and Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party. The 1939 Griffith by-election was nearly the sight of an upset, with the Coalition (Australia), UAP/Country coalition government coming within five votes of taking the seat from the incumbent opposition Labor par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Business School
Melbourne Business School (MBS) is the graduate business school of the University of Melbourne, located in Victoria, Australia. The School offers a range of programs, including an MBA, specialist Masters programs, a doctoral program, and various executive education programs. The MBS Head Office and main campus are in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton, Victoria, Carlton, walking distance from Melbourne CBD, Melbourne's Central Business District, in a complex designed by Daryl Jackson. MBS has an additional office in Pitt Street, Sydney, and a program enquiries office in Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. History MBS began teaching in 1955 when the University of Melbourne offered Australia's first residential executive education program in the summer of that year. Its first Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree was awarded in 1965, which was also the first MBA degree awarded in Australia. During the 1980s, MBS was awarded the status of a National Management School by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Australian Federal Election
The 2019 Australian federal election was held on Saturday, 18 May 2019, to elect members of the 46th Parliament of Australia. The election had been called following the dissolution of the 45th Parliament as elected at the 2016 double dissolution federal election. All 151 seats in the House of Representatives (lower house) and 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate (upper house) were up for election. The second-term incumbent minority Liberal/ National Coalition government, led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, won a third three-year term by defeating the opposition Australian Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. The Coalition claimed a three-seat majority with 77 seats, Labor finished with 68, whilst the remaining six seats were won by the Australian Greens, Centre Alliance, Katter's Australian Party and three independents. The electoral system of Australia enforces compulsory voting and uses full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labor Unity
The Labor Right (LR), also known as Labor Forum, Labor Unity or simply Unity, is one of the two major political factions within the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It is nationally characterised by social democratic to Third Way economic policies, and competes with the Labor Left faction, which leans toward democratic socialism. Labor Right is composed of autonomous groups in each state and territory of Australia. The groups within the Labor Right come together as a broad alliance at the national level. The faction includes members with a range of political perspectives, including centrism, Third Way, partial privatisation, Keynesianism, Social democracy, and Labourism. State branches Factional power usually finds expression in the percentage vote of aligned delegates at party conferences. The power of the Labor Right varies from state to state, but it usually relies on certain trade unions, such as the Australian Workers' Union (AWU), Transport Workers Union (TWU), the Shop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labor Left
The Labor Left (LL), also known as the Progressive Left, Socialist Left or simply the Left, is one of the two major political factions within the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It is nationally characterised by social progressivism and democratic socialism and competes with the more economically liberal Labor Right faction. The Labor Left operates autonomously in each state and territory of Australia, and organises as a broad alliance at the national level. Its policy positions include party democratisation, economic interventionism, progressive tax reform, refugee rights, gender equality and same-sex marriage. The faction includes members with a range of political perspectives, including Keynesianism, confrontational trade unions, Fabian social democracy, New Leftism, and democratic socialism. Factional activity Most political parties contain informal factions of members who work towards common goals, however, the Australian Labor Party is noted for having highly struct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Glasson (surgeon)
William John Glasson (born 2 January 1953) is an Australian ophthalmologist. He was President of the Australian Medical Association 2003–05. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Liberal National Party of Queensland in the contest for the seat of Griffith, held by the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, in the 2013 federal election. He was again unsuccessful in the by-election held on 8 February 2014 as a result of Rudd's resignation from Parliament. Career Glasson was born in Winton, Queensland on 2 January 1953. Independent Ophthalmic Network ; Retrieved 24 August 2013 His father, also (1925–2012), was a |
Liberal National Party Of Queensland
The Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) is a major conservative political party in Queensland, Australia. It was formed in 2008 by a merger of the Queensland divisions of the Liberal Party and the National Party. In most other states, the two parties remain separate and distinct. Federal LNP parliamentarians sit in the party room of either the Liberals or the Nationals, depending on which federal party their seat has been allocated to by the LNP. The LNP is a division of the Liberal Party of Australia and an affiliate of the National Party of Australia. After suffering defeat at its first election in 2009 the LNP won government for the first time at the 2012 election, winning 78 out of 89 seats, a record majority in the unicameral Parliament of Queensland. Campbell Newman became the first LNP Premier of Queensland. The Newman Government was subsequently defeated by the Labor Party at the 2015 election. Since 1989, the LNP and its predecessor parties have been in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-party-preferred Vote
In Australian politics, the two-party-preferred vote (TPP or 2PP), is the result of an opinion poll or a projection of an election result where preferences are distributed to one of the two major parties, the Labor Party and the Liberal/National Coalition e.g. "Coalition 50%, Labor 50%. The preference distribution is usually based upon the results of the last election, and the votes for other candidates are distributed between to the two parties. As such the TPP is a rough indicator of voting intent that focuses on determining the likely majority in the lower house. It is compared to previous values to predict the swing and hence the likelihood of a change in government between the major parties. The TPP assumes a two-party system of government, i.e. that after distribution of votes from less successful candidates, the two remaining candidates will be from each of the two major parties. It provides no indication of the number of representatives of other parties or independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Griffith By-election
A by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Division of Griffith, Griffith occurred on Saturday 8 February 2014. Terri Butler retained the seat for Australian Labor Party, Labor with a 51.8 (−1.2) percent Two-party-preferred vote, two-party vote against Liberal National Party of Queensland, Liberal National Party candidate Bill Glasson (surgeon), Bill Glasson. Background Former Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced on 13 November 2013 that he would step down from the parliament after his Australian Labor Party, party's defeat at the 2013 Australian federal election, 2013 election. The division of Griffith is located in the inner suburbs of Queensland, Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. Since the seat's creation in 1934, Griffith has changed parties eight times. Labor's Kevin Rudd had held the seat since regaining it for Labor in 1998, having previously unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1996. Rudd retained Griffith at the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terri Butler (cropped)
Terri Megan Butler (born 28 November 1977) is an Australian public servant and former politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 2014 to 2022, representing the seat of Griffith for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She worked as an industrial lawyer prior to entering parliament and in 2024 was appointed as a deputy president of the Fair Work Commission. Early life Butler was born on 28 November 1977 in Cairns, Queensland, the daughter of Allison and Larry Butler. She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws ( Hons.) from the Queensland University of Technology. She also studied at James Cook University. As a student she worked for an engineering firm, at an aluminium factory and for the Australian Services Union. Butler completed her articles of clerkship in 2003 and subsequently worked as an industrial lawyer. Prior to her election to parliament, she was a principal at Maurice Blackburn and led the firm's employment and workplace relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeronga, Queensland
Yeronga is a southern riverside Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yeronga had a population of 7,062 people. Geography The suburb is bounded to the west and north by the Brisbane River and to the south-east by Ipswich Road, Brisbane, Ipswich Road. A total of 16 streets in the Yeronga West area begin with the letter O, including Orvieto Road, Orsova Road and Oriana Crescent, locally known as the 'O zone'. Many of these streets appear to be named after ships and passenger liners owned by the Orient Steam Navigation Company, Orient Line, which became part of P&O. They include , , ''USS Zeppelin (1914), Ormuz'' and . Some names were used for two or more ships over time. For example, the first was launched in 1911 and sunk by a torpedo in 1917, and the second was launched in 1924 and sunk in the Norwegian campaign in 1940. Four streets in Yeronga (including two forming a circuit) appear to have been named after pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
