Julia Eileen Gillard is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013. She held office as leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),having previously served as the 13th deputy prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010,under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. She is the first and only woman to hold either office in Australian history.
Jennifer Louise Macklin is an Australian former politician. She was elected to federal parliament at the 1996 federal election and served as the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2001 to 2006,under opposition leaders Simon Crean,Mark Latham and Kim Beazley. After the ALP won government at the 2007 election,she held ministerial office under Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard,serving as Minister for Families,Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (2007–2013) and Minister for Disability Reform (2011–2013). She retired from parliament at the 2019 election.
Anthony John Abbott is an Australian former politician who served as the 28th prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
In the Parliament of Australia,a casual vacancy arises when a member of either the Senate or the House of Representatives:
Penelope Ying-Yen Wong is an Australian politician who is serving as the current minister for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Government in the Senate in the Albanese government since 2022. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),she has been a senator for South Australia since 2002. Wong previously served as minister for Climate Change and minister for Finance and Deregulation during the governments of Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 until 2013.
Nova Maree Peris is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey (Hockeyroos) team at the 1996 Olympic Games,she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. She later switched sports to sprinting and went to the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 2000 Olympic Games. She was elected to the Australian Senate at the 2013 federal election,after then Prime Minister Julia Gillard named her as a "captain's pick",installing her as the preselected Labor candidate over incumbent Labor senator Trish Crossin. She retired from the Senate in 2016.
Kim John Carr is an Australian former politician who served as a Senator for Victoria between 1993 and 2022. Representing the Labor Party,he was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1996 to 1999. Half of the state senators had been elected at the March 1993 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1999;the other half of the state senators were elected at the March 1996 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 2002. The territory senators were elected at the March 1996 election and their terms ended at the next federal election,which was October 1998.
Christopher Vaughan Evans is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Western Australia from 1993 to 2013,representing the Australian Labor Party.
Government in Australia is elected by universal suffrage and Australian women participate in all levels of the government of the nation. In 1902,the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia became the first nation on earth to enact equal suffrage,enabling women to both vote and stand for election alongside men Women have been represented in Australian state parliaments since 1921,and in the Federal Parliament since 1943. The first female leader of an Australian State or Territory was elected in 1989,and the first female Prime Minister took office in 2010. In 2019 for the first time,a majority of members of the Australian Senate were women. At the time of its foundation in 1901,and again from 1952 to 2022,Australia has had a female monarch as ceremonial Head of State,while the first female Governor of an Australian State was appointed in 1991,and the first female Governor-General of Australia took office in 2008.
Robert Lindsay Collins AO was a Labor Party member of the Australian Senate from July 1987 to March 1998,representing the Northern Territory. Prior to entering the Senate,Collins was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 1987,and Leader of the Territory Opposition from 1981 to 1986. He was the first Northern Territorian to become a federal minister. He killed himself after being charged with child sex offences.
Mark Victor Arbib is an Australian former Labor Party politician and trade unionist,who was an Australian Senator for New South Wales from 2008 to 2012.
Malarndirri Barbara McCarthy is an Indigenous Australian politician and former journalist who has been a Senator for the Northern Territory since 2016. She is an Assistant Minister in the Albanese Government,and previously served in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.
The Gillard government was the Government of Australia led by the 27th Prime Minister of Australia,Julia Gillard,of the Australian Labor Party. The Gillard government succeeded the first Rudd government by way of the Labor Party leadership spill,and began on 24 June 2010,with Gillard sworn in as Prime Minister by the Governor-General of Australia,Quentin Bryce. The Gillard government ended when Kevin Rudd won back the leadership of the Australian Labor Party on 26 June 2013 and commenced the second Rudd government.
The 2013 Australian federal election to elect the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia took place on 7 September 2013. The centre-right Liberal/National Coalition opposition led by Opposition leader Tony Abbott of the Liberal Party of Australia and Coalition partner the National Party of Australia,led by Warren Truss,defeated the incumbent centre-left Labor Party government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in a landslide. It was also the third time in history that a party won 90 or more seats at an Australian election. Labor had been in government for six years since being elected in the 2007 election. This election marked the end of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor government and the start of the 9 year long Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Liberal-National Coalition government. Abbott was sworn in by the Governor-General,Quentin Bryce,as Australia's new Prime Minister on 18 September 2013,along with the Abbott Ministry. The 44th Parliament of Australia opened on 12 November 2013,with the members of the House of Representatives and territory senators sworn in. The state senators were sworn in by the next Governor-General Peter Cosgrove on 7 July 2014,with their six-year terms commencing on 1 July.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate between 2011 and 2014. Half of the state senators had been elected at the November 2007 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 2014;the other half of the state senators were elected at the August 2010 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 2017. The territory senators were elected at the August 2010 election and their terms ended at the next federal election,which was September 2013. The new Senate first met in July 2011,with state senators elected in 2010 sworn in on 4 July 2011.
A leadership spill in the Australian Labor Party,the party of government in the Parliament of Australia,was held on 21 March 2013. Prime Minister Julia Gillard called a ballot for the Leadership and Deputy Leadership of the Labor Party for 4.30pm,following a press conference by former Labor Leader and Regional Minister Simon Crean over persistent leadership tensions. At the caucus meeting,no alternative candidates nominated for the positions,and so Gillard and Wayne Swan were re-elected unopposed.
Joanne Catherine Ryan is an Australian politician and former schoolteacher. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since 2013,representing the Division of Lalor in Melbourne's western suburbs. Following the election of the Albanese Labor Government,Joanne Ryan was elected Chief Government Whip in the House of Representatives. She was a primary school principal immediately prior to her election.
Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price is an Australian politician from the Northern Territory. She has been a senator for the Northern Territory since the 2022 federal election. She is a member of the Country Liberal Party,a politically conservative party operating in the Northern Territory affiliated with the national Coalition. She sits with the National Party in federal parliament. She has been the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs since April 2023.
