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This article lists Australian politicians. It includes members of the Parliament of Australia and members of state and territory parliaments.
In the early years of Federation, the emerging Australian Parliament was a "substantial arena" of various fragmented political parties, and it was not until 1909, as parliamentary politics became increasingly bipolar, that the merger occurred and the party system coalesced into the Labor Party and a non-Labor bloc.
List of prime ministers of Australia; No. Portrait Name (Birth–death) Constituency Election (Parliament) Term of office Political party Ministry Monarch Governor-General Ref. Took office Left office Time in office 1 Edmund Barton (1849–1920) MP for Hunter, NSW: 1901 (1st) 1 January 1901 24 September 1903 2 years, 266 days Protectionist ...
The politics of Australia has a mild two-party system, with two dominant political groupings in the Australian political system, the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal/National Coalition. Federally, 17 of the 151 members of the lower house (Members of Parliament, or MPs) are not members of major parties, as well as 21 of the 76 members of ...
Katter's Australian: Kennedy: Qld: 1993–present Ged Kearney Labor: Cooper: Vic: 2018–present Craig Kelly [c] Liberal: Hughes: NSW 2010–2022 Independent: United Australia: Mike Kelly [a] Labor: Eden-Monaro: NSW
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2022 Australian federal election held on 21 May 2022. [1] Terms for newly elected senators representing the Australian states begin on 1 July 2022. Terms for senators in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory began on the day of the election, 21 May 2022. [2]
This is a list of members of the House of Representatives of the 47th Parliament of Australia (2022–2025). They were elected in the 2022 Australian federal election or subsequent by-elections. [ 1 ]
Today, every Australian state and territory has had at least one female head of government, except for South Australia; the Northern Territory has had the most, with four; the Australian Capital Territory has had three; Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria have each had a second female head of government serving in their respective ...