The Tasmanian Greens are a political party in Australia which developed from numerous environmental campaigns in Tasmania,including the flooding of Lake Pedder and the Franklin Dam campaign. They form a part of the Australian Greens.
The House of Assembly,or Lower House,is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital,Hobart.
Michael Darrel Joseph Ferguson is an Australian politician who is currently the Deputy Premier of Tasmania since April 2022. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the Division of Bass since the 2010 state election. Ferguson was appointed to cabinet after his party's victory in the 2014 state election and has served continuously as Minister in a range of portfolios including Finance,Health,Infrastructure,Transport,State Growth and Science and Technology. He is also the Leader of the House.
The Parliament of Tasmania is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Tasmania. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of the King,the Tasmanian House of Assembly,and Tasmanian Legislative Council. Since 1841,both Houses have met in Parliament House,Hobart. The Parliament of Tasmania first met in 1856.
Jeremy Page Rockliff is an Australian politician and farmer,and the 47th and current premier of Tasmania since 2022. He has been the leader of the Tasmanian division of the Liberal Party of Australia since 2022 and a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the division of Braddon since the 2002 election. He was previously the 20th deputy premier of Tasmania from 2014 to 2022. Since the electoral defeat of the Coalition government in New South Wales in March 2023,Rockliff is the only incumbent non-Labor leader of an Australian state government.
Burnie City Council is a local government body in Tasmania,located in the city and surrounds of Burnie in the north-west of the state. The Burnie local government area is classified as urban and has a population of 19,348,which also encompasses Cooee,Hampshire,Natone and Ridgley.
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 1900 election and the 1903 election.
Peter Carl Gutwein is a former Australian politician who was the 46th premier of Tasmania from 2020 to 2022. He was a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 2002 to 2022,representing the electorate of Bass. He succeeded Will Hodgman as leader of the Liberal Party and Tasmanian Premier on 20 January 2020.
Elise Nicole Archer is an Australian lawyer and politician. She is of Swedish descent.
Madeleine Ruth Ogilvie is an Australian lawyer and politician. She is a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly representing the Division of Clark and is a minister in the Second Rockliff ministry
Susanne Lynnette Hickey is an Australian politician. She represented the electorate of Denison from the 2018 state election until her defeat at the 2021 election,sitting with the Liberal Party until March 2021,when she quit the party and became an independent.
The 2021 Tasmanian state election was held on 1 May 2021 to elect all 25 members to the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
The Tasmanian Labor Party,officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as Tasmanian Labor,is the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party. It has been one of the most successful state Labor parties in Australia in terms of electoral success.
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly,elected at the 2021 state election.
Dean Winter is a Tasmanian Labor politician currently serving as Tasmanian Opposition Leader and Leader of the Tasmanian Labor Party. He was elected as Mayor of Kingborough Council in 2018,and was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly at the 2021 Tasmanian state election,as an MP for Franklin.
Lara Maria Alexander is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the division of Bass since 2022,serving as a member for the Liberal Party before moving to the crossbench as an independent in 2023.
The Rockliff ministry is the immediate former ministry of the Tasmanian Government,led by Jeremy Rockliff of the Tasmanian Liberals. It was formed on 8 April 2022,after Rockliff was elected unopposed as leader of the Liberal Party and sworn as the state's 47th Premier by Governor Barbara Baker. The ministry replaced the Second Gutwein ministry,after former Premier Peter Gutwein resigned from his position and quit politics.
Periodic elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council will be held on 4 May 2024. The two seats up for periodic election are Hobart and Prosser. A by-election for the seat of Elwick will also be held concurrently.
This is a list of local government area results for the 2022 Tasmanian local elections.
Helen BurnetMP,MAICD is an Australian politician representing the division of Clark in the House of Assembly since the 2024 Tasmanian state election. Prior to this she was Deputy Lord Mayor of Hobart and a member of the Hobart City Council.
