Sussan Penelope Ley is an Australian politician who has been deputy leader of the Liberal Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition since May 2022. She has been member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales seat of Farrer since 2001 and was a cabinet minister in the Abbott,Turnbull and Morrison governments.
Richard Mansell Colbeck is an Australian politician. He has been a Senator for Tasmania since 2018,representing the Liberal Party,and served a previous term in the Senate from 2002 to 2016. Colbeck served as the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services and Minister for Sport in the Second Morrison Ministry from December 2020 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. Previous to this,he was the Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Youth and Sport since May 2019.
Jason Peter Wood is an Australian politician and former police officer. He is a member of the Liberal Party and served as the Assistant Minister for Customs,Community Safety and Multicultural Affairs in the Morrison government from May 2019 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. He represents the Division of La Trobe in Victoria,which he has held since 2013 and previously from 2004 to 2010.
Concetta Anna Fierravanti-Wells is an Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 2005 to 2022,representing the Liberal Party. She served as Minister for International Development and the Pacific in the Turnbull government from 2016 to 2018. She grew up in Port Kembla,New South Wales,and,prior to entering politics,worked as a lawyer and policy adviser.
Alexander George Hawke is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Immigration,Citizenship,Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs from 2020 to 2022 in the Morrison government. Hawke has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mitchell since 2007,representing the Liberal Party.
Joshua Anthony Frydenberg is an Australian former politician who served as the treasurer of Australia and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2018 to 2022. He also served as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Kooyong from 2010 to 2022.
The Minister for Immigration,Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs is a ministerial post of the Australian Government and is currently held by Andrew Giles,pending the swearing in of the full Albanese ministry on 1 June 2022,following the Australian federal election in 2022.
Simon John Birmingham is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 2007. A member of the Liberal Party,he served in the Morrison government as Minister for Finance from 2020 to 2022 and as Minister for Trade,Tourism and Investment from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as Minister for Education and Training in the Turnbull government from 2015 to 2018,and as a parliamentary secretary and assistant minister in the Abbott government.
Zdenko Matthew "Zed" Seselja is an Australian politician who was a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory from 2013 to 2022,representing the Liberal Party. He was the Minister for International Development and the Pacific in the Morrison government from December 2020 to May 2022,and previously served as an assistant minister in the Morrison and Turnbull governments since 2016.
Nola Bethwyn Marino is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2007,representing the Division of Forrest in Western Australia. She is a member of the Liberal Party and served as the Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories from 2019 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. Marino previously served as Chief Government Whip from 2015 to 2019.
Paul William Fletcher is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Communications,Urban Infrastructure,Cities and the Arts from 2020 to 2022. Fletcher is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia,and has served as member of parliament (MP) for the division of Bradfield since 2009.
Daniel Thomas Tehan is an Australian politician who was the Minister for Trade,Tourism and Investment in the Morrison government from 2020 to 2022. He is a member of the Liberal Party and previously served as Minister for Defence Materiel (2016),Defence Personnel (2016–2017),Veterans' Affairs (2016–2017),Social Services (2017–2018),and Education (2018–2020). He has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2010 election,representing the Victorian seat of Wannon.
Alan Tudge is an Australian former politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives between 2010 and 2023. He was a cabinet minister in the Morrison government from 2019 to 2022.
Scott Andrew Buchholz is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) and served as an assistant minister in the Morrison government from 2018 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. He has represented the seat of Wright since the 2010 federal election,sitting with the parliamentary Liberal Party,and previously served as chief government whip in the House of Representatives in the Abbott government in 2015. He was a businessman in the transport industry before entering politics.
Karen Lesley Andrews is an Australian politician who served in the Morrison government as Minister for Industry,Science and Technology from 2018 to 2021 and as Minister for Home Affairs from 2021 to 2022. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and has represented the Queensland seat of McPherson since the 2010 federal election. Andrews sits as a Liberal and previously served as an assistant minister in the Abbott and Turnbull governments. Before entering politics she was a mechanical engineer and industrial relations consultant.
Michael Sven Sukkar is an Australian politician who served as the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Housing from 2019,and as the Minister for Homelessness,Social and Community Housing from 2020. He lost his ministries in May 2022,when the Liberal Party went into Opposition on the election of the Albanese Labor government.
James Anthony McGrath is an Australian politician and Senator for Queensland since 2014. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. Following his re-election in 2022,McGrath was appointed as Shadow Assistant Minister for Finance and to the Leader of the Opposition.
Andrew James Giles is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since September 2013,representing the Division of Scullin,Victoria. He is currently the Minister for Immigration,Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. Giles joined the ALP when he was eighteen,and –prior to his election to Parliament –worked as a principal lawyer at Slater and Gordon in Melbourne,practising in employment law. Giles previously served as Shadow Assistant Minister for Schools between 2016 and 2019,and Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Shadow Minister for Cities and Urban Infrastructure from 2019 to 2022. Giles also previously served as one of the two federal parliamentary convenors of the Labor Left faction,along with Pat Conroy.
Melissa Lee Price is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Defence Industry from 2019 to 2022 and as Minister for Science and Technology from 2021 to 2022 in the Morrison government. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2013,representing the Division of Durack in Western Australia. A member of the Liberal Party,she previously served as Minister for the Environment (2018–2019) and Assistant Minister for the Environment (2017–2018).
The Moderates,also known as Modern Liberals,Small-L Liberals or Liberal Left,are members,supporters,voters and a faction of the Australian Liberal Party who are typically fiscally conservative,but progressive on social and environmental policies. They compete with the Liberal Party's other two major factions:The National Right and the Centre Right.
