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The Leader of the Liberal Party, also known as Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party, is the highest office within the Liberal Party of Australia and the Liberal–National Coalition. The position is currently, and has been since 30 May 2022, held by Peter Dutton, who represents the Division of Dickson in Queensland.
Having said during the campaign that the result would be a "verdict on the leaders", Dutton said afterwards that he accepted responsibility for the result, but still deserved to remain Liberal leader. [147] In April 2023, Dutton announced that the Liberal Party would be opposing the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum.
Historically the most successful political party in Australia’s history, the Liberal Party is now in opposition at a federal level, although it presently holds government in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Tasmania at a sub-national level. The Liberal Party is the dominant partner in the Coalition with the National Party of Australia.
No Party Alignment: MLC for Western (1864–1868) 6 May 1868 11 July 1868 66 days 298. SA: Robert Richards (1885–1967) Parliamentary Labor: MP for Wallaroo (1918–1949) 13 February 1933 18 April 1933 64 days 299. TAS: Thomas Gregson (1796–1874) No Party Alignment: MHA for Richmond (1856–1872) 26 February 1857 25 April 1857 58 days 300 ...
A leadership election of the Liberal Party of Australia was held on 30 May 2022, [1] following the defeat of the Scott Morrison government at the 2022 federal election and the resignation of Morrison as party leader. [2] The newly elected leader would become Leader of the Opposition to the Labor Party government of Anthony Albanese.
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 ...
Australians awoke on Sunday to a new prime minister in Anthony Albanese, the center-left Labor Party leader whose ascension to the nation’s top job from being raised in social housing by a ...
Since 1952, every premier of every state has been a member of the Australian Labor Party, the Liberal Party of Australia, or the National Party of Australia (until 1973, the Liberal Party was known as the Liberal and Country League in South Australia; the Country Liberal Party is the Northern Territory branch of the Liberal and National Parties ...