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Electoral District Of Richmond (Victoria)
Richmond is an Victorian Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It is currently a 13 km2 electorate in the inner east of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Richmond, Victoria, Richmond, Cremorne, Victoria, Cremorne, Burnley, Victoria, Burnley, Abbotsford, Victoria, Abbotsford, Collingwood, Victoria, Collingwood, Clifton Hill, Victoria, Clifton Hill, North Fitzroy, Victoria, North Fitzroy and Fitzroy, Victoria, Fitzroy. Historically a very safe seat for the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party, Richmond has in recent elections become increasingly marginal against the Australian Greens Victoria, Greens, who eventually won the seat at the 2022 Victorian state election. History Richmond is one of only three electorates (along with Electoral district of Brighton, Brighton and Electoral district of Williamstown, Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle De Vietri
Gabrielle de Vietri (born 1983) is an Australian politician who currently serves as a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of Richmond. She is a member of the Victorian Greens and previously served as the mayor of Yarra from 2020 until 2021. Life and career In 2003, de Vietri earned a Visual Arts Certificate from the , followed by a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2005 and a Master of Fine Art from Monash University in 2013. She worked as a professional artist until 2019, undertaking numerous residencies and grant projects. In 2020, de Vietri was elected a councillor for the Langridge Ward in the City of Yarra. She soon became Yarra Mayor, serving until 2021. De Vietri announced in August 2022 that she would be taking leave from her role at the City of Yarra due to her running in the 2022 state election. She was then announced as the Greens candidate for the district of Richmond. De Vietr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Williamstown
Williamstown is an Victorian Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It is a 33 km2 urban electorate in the inner south-western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Brooklyn, Victoria, Brooklyn, Newport, Victoria, Newport, Spotswood, Victoria, Spotswood, Williamstown, Victoria, Williamstown, Williamstown North, Victoria, Williamstown North, South Kingsville, Victoria, South Kingsville, Seaholme, Altona, Victoria, Altona and Yarraville, Victoria, Yarraville. The electorate had a population of 54,426 as of the 2006 census. Williamstown is one of only three electorates (along with Electoral district of Brighton, Brighton and Electoral district of Richmond (Victoria), Richmond) to have been List of Australian electorates contested at every election, contested at every election since 1856. It is a very safe s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Maltzahn
Kathleen Maltzahn (born 19 September 1966) is an Australian author, academic and anti-Sex workers' rights, sex work activist. She is a former councillor for the City of Yarra and was the Victorian Greens' candidate for Electoral district of Richmond (Victoria), the state seat of Richmond in the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Victorian elections. Early life Maltzahn was born in Morwell, Victoria. She attended high school in Melbourne's inner-east, and completed her Higher School Certificate (HSC) in 1984. She commenced study at the University of Melbourne the following year, and completed her Bachelor of Arts in 1988, returning in 1996 to undertake a postgraduate diploma in women's studies.kathleenmaltzahn.com Professional life Prior to entering politics, Maltzahn's roles included Interim Director of the East Timor Human Rights Cent ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Victorian State Election
The 2006 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 25 November 2006, was for the 56th Parliament of Victoria. Just over 3 million Victoria (state), Victorians registered to vote elected 88 members to the Legislative Assembly of Victoria, Legislative Assembly and, for the first time, 40 members to the Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council under a Single Transferable Vote, proportional representation system (Single transferable voting). The election was conducted by the independent Victorian Electoral Commission. The Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party government of Premier of Victoria, Premier Steve Bracks, first elected in 1999, won a third consecutive term with 55 of the 88 lower house seats, down seven from the 62 Labor won in 2002. The Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), Liberal Party Opposition (parliamentary), opposition of Ted Baillieu won 23 seats, and the National Party of Australia – Victoria, National Party led by Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Beazley
Kim Christian Beazley (born 14 December 1948) is an Australian former politician and diplomat. Since 2022 he has served as chairman of the Australian War Memorial. Previously, he was leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and Leader of the Opposition (Australia), leader of the opposition from 1996 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006, having previously been a Cabinet of Australia, cabinet minister in the Hawke government, Hawke and Keating governments. After leaving parliament, he served as Australian Ambassador to the United States, ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2016 and 33rd governor of Western Australia from 2018 to 2022. Beazley was born in Perth, the son of politician Kim Beazley Sr. He studied at the University of Western Australia and Balliol College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. After a period as a lecturer at Murdoch University, Beazley was elected to Australian Parliament, Parliament at the 1980 Australian federal election, 1980 election, winning the Division o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia (Victorian Division)
The Victorian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), and branded as Liberal Victoria, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It was formed in 1949 as the Liberal and Country Party (LCP) and simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1965. The party sits on the Centre-right politics, centre-right to Right-wing politics, right-wing of the Politics of Australia, Australian political spectrum, and is currently led by Brad Battin. There was a #Old Liberal Party Victorian Division, previous Victorian division of the Liberal Party formed in March 1945, but it ceased to exist when the LCP was established four years later. History Background Robert Menzies, who was the Prime Minister of Australia between 1939 and 1941, founded the Liberal Party during a conference held in Canberra in October 1944, uniting many non-Labor political organisations, including the United Australia Party (U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemma Pinnell
Gemma or GEMMA may refer to: People and fictional characters * Gemma (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Gemma (surname), including a list of people with the name Science and technology Biology * Gemma (botany), an asexual reproductive structure in plants and fungi * Gemma, a monotypic genus of the Veneridae family of saltwater clams ** ''Gemma gemma'', the type species * Gemma, a bud-like appendage in ants of the ''Diacamma'' genus Other sciences and technology * Walter Gemma, a radial aero engine manufactured by Walter Aircraft Engines in the early 1930 * Gas phase electrophoretic molecular mobility analysis (GEMMA), a chemical analysis technique * Gemma (language model), family of models developed by Google * Alpha Coronae Borealis or Gemma, a binary star * Gemma, an Adafruit Industries Arduino-compatible microcontroller Ships * Italian submarine ''Gemma'' * MV ''Gemma'', a Dutch coastal tanker lost in 1951 * SS ''Gemma'', a Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Victorian State Election
The 2002 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 30 November 2002, was for the 55th Parliament of Victoria. It was held to elect the 88 members of Victorian Legislative Assembly and 22 members of the 44-member Legislative Council. The Labor government led by Premier Steve Bracks was returned for a second term in a landslide victory, taking 62 seats, a gain of 20. It was easily the biggest majority that Labor had ever won in Victoria, and one of Labor's best-ever performances at the state level in Australia. Additionally, it was only the third time that a Labor government had been reelected in Victoria. Labor also recorded 57.8 percent of the two-party preferred vote, their highest on record for a Victorian election. Labor also won a majority of seats in the Legislative Council for the first time in its history. Jeff Kennett had resigned as Liberal leader soon after his shock defeat in 1999, and was succeeded by former Health Minister Denis Napthine. However, Napthine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Collingwood
Collingwood was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1958. It centred on the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, Victoria Collingwood is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3km north-east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Yarra Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Collingwood recorded a .... The district of Collingwood was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856. It was defined initially as: Members for Collingwood The district initially had two members, which was increased to three from 1859, reverted to two after 1877, and was represented by only one member from 1904. : = by-election Election results External links *Map of Electoral District of Collingwood, 1855. References * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Collingwood Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1856 establishments in Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Towers (politician)
William John Towers, MM (25 March 1892 – 18 March 1962) was an Australian politician. He was born in Collingwood to labourer John Towers and Ellen Heath. He served in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War, seeing action at Gallipoli and in France, where he was awarded the Military Medal. On 2 July 1919 he married May Josephine Cunneen, with whom he had two children. He joined the Labor Party in 1927 and was a member of Collingwood City Council from 1930 to 1931 and from 1937 to 1952, serving twice as mayor (1939–40, 1943–45). In 1947 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament H ... for Collingwood. He transferred to Richmond in 1958 and served until his death at Fitzroy in 1962. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Labor Party (Australia, 1955)
The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) was an Australian political party. The party came into existence following the 1955 ALP split as the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), and was renamed the Democratic Labor Party in 1957. In 1962, the Queensland Labor Party, a breakaway party of the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party, became the Queensland branch of the DLP.Frank Mines. ''Gair'', Canberra City, ACT, Arrow Press (1975); In 1978, a new Democratic Labor Party was founded by members of the original party, which remains active as of 2025. History Origins The Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) was formed as a result of a split in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) which began in 1954. The split was between the party's national leadership, under the then party leader Dr H. V. Evatt, and the majority of the Victorian branch, which was dominated by a faction composed largely of ideologically-driven anti-Communist Catholics. Many ALP members during the Cold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Scully (politician)
Francis Raymond Scully (27 January 1920 – 12 August 2015) was an Australian politician who served as a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament H ... for the electoral district of Richmond, representing the Labor Party until March 1955. He was Assistant Minister of Lands, Assistant Minister of Electrical Undertakings in the third Cain government from 1952 to 1955. He was a member of the Catholic Social Studies Movement ("The Movement") in Victoria, and was expelled from the ministry and the ALP as part of the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. He then was a member of the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) (and then the Democratic Labor Party) from 1955 to 1958. Scully was the only member of the DLP in the lower hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
