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2005 Macquarie Fields State By-election
A by-election was staged in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly district of Macquarie Fields on 17 September 2005. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member and former minister Craig Knowles (). The by-election was timed to coincide with two other state by-elections in Maroubra and Marrickville. The by-election saw the Labor Party retain the seat with the election of candidate Steven Chaytor. Results Craig Knowles () resigned. Aftermath Steven Chaytor's stint as a member of parliament would prove to be a short one. In January 2007 he was found guilty of domestic assault. As a result, Chaytor stepped down as an MP and did not contest the 2007 state election. See also * Electoral results for the district of Macquarie Fields *List of New South Wales state by-elections This is a list of by-elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. A by-election may be held when a member's seat becomes vacant through resignation, death or some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is presided over by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The Assembly has 93 members, elected by single-member constituency, which are commonly known as seats. Voting is by the optional preferential system. Members of the Legislative Assembly have the post-nominals MP after their names. From the creation of the assembly up to about 1990, the post-nominals "MLA" (Member of the Legislative Assembly) were used. The Assembly is often called ''the bearpit'' on the basis of the house's reputation for confrontational style during heated moments and the "savage political theatre and the bloodlust of its professional players" attributed in part to executive dominance. History The Legislativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Macquarie Fields
Macquarie Fields is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, located in the outer south-western suburbs of Sydney. It is currently represented by Anoulack Chanthivong of the Labor Party. It currently includes the suburbs of Bardia, Bow Bowing, Casula, Cross Roads, Denham Court, Edmondson Park, Eschol Park, Glenfield, Ingleburn, Kearns, Kentlyn, Leppington, Leumeah, Long Point, Macquarie Fields, Macquarie Links, Minto, Minto Heights, Raby, St Andrews and Varroville. Members for Macquarie Fields Election results References {{Members of the Parliament of New South Wales Macquarie Fields Macquarie Fields 1988 establishments in Australia Macquarie Fields 1991 disestablishments in Australia Macquarie Fields Macquarie Fields is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Macquarie Fields is located 38 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Knowles
Craig John Knowles (born 27 February 1959) is a former Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2005. Early life Knowles' parents were Marie and Stan Knowles, member for Ingleburn from 1981 to 1988 and Macquarie Fields from 1988 to 1990. He was born in Liverpool, New South Wales and educated at Liverpool Boys High School, Sydney College of Technical and Further Education. He worked in the New South Wales Department of Business and Consumer Affairs from 1988 and was the Western Sydney Co-ordinator in the Office of State Development of New South Wales Premiers' Department from 1987 to 1988. He was an alderman on Liverpool City Council from 1982 to 1994 and Mayor from 1986 until 1988. Political career Knowles served as a Labor Party member for Macquarie Fields from May 1990 to May 1991, Moorebank from 1991 to 1999 and Macquarie Fields from 1999 to 2005. He was Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning from 1995 to 1999, Minist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Maroubra State By-election
A by-election was staged in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly district of Maroubra on 17 September 2005. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member and Premier Bob Carr (). The by-election was timed to coincide with two other state by-elections in Macquarie Fields and Marrickville. The by-election saw the Labor Party retain the seat with the election of candidate Michael Daley. Background On 27 July 2005, New South Wales Premier Bob Carr announced his resignation as Premier. Carr had been leader of the New South Wales Labor Party since 1988. He led the party to government at the 1995 state election and his government was subsequently re-elected at the 1999 and 2003 elections. Carr's resignation took effect on 4 August 2005. At roughly 10 years 4 months, he served the longest continuous service of any Premier of New South Wales. Carr also resigned his parliamentary seat, triggering the by-election. Results Elections returns gave Labor candidate Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Marrickville State By-election
A by-election was held in the State Electoral District of Marrickville in New South Wales, Australia on 17 September 2005. The by-election was prompted by the resignation of the sitting member Deputy Premier Andrew Refshauge () on 10 August 2005, in the wake of the resignation of Premier Bob Carr. The by-election was timed to coincide with two other state by-elections in Macquarie Fields and Maroubra. The main contenders were the ALP's Carmel Tebbutt, who had been a member of the Legislative Council since 1998 and was the wife of Anthony Albanese, the member for the local federal electorate of Grayndler, and candidate Sam Byrne, who at that time was the deputy mayor of Marrickville. The did not stand a candidate. Nominations for the by-election closed on 2 September 2005. Results Carmel Tebbutt was elected with 49.79% of the primary vote and 55.07% of the two-candidate preferred vote after preferences were distributed. However, this was a 5.63% swing to the Greens, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Chaytor
Steven John Chaytor (born 19 February 1976) is an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2005 to 2007, representing the southwest Sydney electorate of Macquarie Fields. Chaytor was educated at St Gregory's College in Campbelltown and the University of Technology, Sydney, where he completed degrees in international studies and law. He worked as a solicitor and advisor to former Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam, and first entered local politics in 1999, when he was elected to the Campbelltown City Council. Chaytor was widely expected as a favourite to enter federal politics when Mark Latham resigned as the member for the safe seat of Werriwa in 2005. However, after a messy pre-selection battle with Campbelltown Mayor Brenton Banfield over who would run in the resulting by-election, Chaytor lost out to compromise candidate Chris Hayes. There was little challenge possible, however, when Chaytor was nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Macquarie Fields State By-election
A by-election was staged in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly district of Macquarie Fields on 17 September 2005. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member and former minister Craig Knowles (). The by-election was timed to coincide with two other state by-elections in Maroubra and Marrickville. The by-election saw the Labor Party retain the seat with the election of candidate Steven Chaytor. Results Craig Knowles () resigned. Aftermath Steven Chaytor's stint as a member of parliament would prove to be a short one. In January 2007 he was found guilty of domestic assault. As a result, Chaytor stepped down as an MP and did not contest the 2007 state election. See also * Electoral results for the district of Macquarie Fields *List of New South Wales state by-elections This is a list of by-elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. A by-election may be held when a member's seat becomes vacant through resignation, death or some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nola Fraser
Nola Therese Fraser (née Chalhoub) is an Australian small business owner, former Registered Nurse and former Liberal Party and Independent candidate for the New South Wales state seat of Macquarie Fields. Fraser first rose to public prominence as one of the whistleblowers whose disclosures about entrenched substandard clinical practices and complicit management culture at Camden and Campbelltown Hospitals, that resulted in 21 avoidable deaths and other unnecessary injuries, sparked five major inquiries and the resignation and termination of a number of senior executive managers in the NSW health service. Role in the Macarthur Health Services scandal Camden and Campbelltown Hospitals are two acute care hospitals (Campbelltown being the larger hospital) that provide extensive clinical services to residents of the Macarthur region (south-west Sydney) of New South Wales in Australia. Rapid population growth in the region, particularly from overseas immigration, during the 1990s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 New South Wales State Election
Elections for the 54th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday, 24 March 2007. The entire Legislative Assembly and half of the Legislative Council was up for election. The Labor Party led by Morris Iemma won a fourth four-year term against the Liberal-National coalition led by Peter Debnam. Labor's substantial majority survived the election almost intact. The Liberals succeeded in taking two independent-held seats and one Labor-held seat, whilst the Nationals and an independent each took one Labor-held seat. Campaign Labor, running on the slogan "More to do, but we're heading in the right direction," heavily outspent the Liberals, whose slogan was "Let's fix NSW." Though water and infrastructure emerged as key issues in the campaign, much of the parties' advertising focussed on the negatives: Debnam's business record and Labor's record in office. The media concluded that the choice facing voters was in finding the lesser of two evils: the three major newspapers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
''The Daily Telegraph'', also nicknamed ''The Tele'', is an Australian tabloid newspaper published by Nationwide News Pty Limited, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. It is published Monday through Saturday and is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. A 2013 poll conducted by Essential Research found that the ''Telegraph'' was Australia's least-trusted major newspaper, with 49% of respondents citing "a lot of" or "some" trust in the paper. Amongst those ranked by Nielsen, the ''Telegraph'' website is the sixth most popular Australian news website with a unique monthly audience of 2,841,381 readers. History ''The Daily Telegraph'' was founded in 1879, by John Mooyart Lynch, a former printer, editor and journalist who had once worked on the ''Melbourne Daily Telegraph''. Lynch had failed in an attempt to become a politician and was lookin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Results For The District Of Macquarie Fields
Macquarie Fields, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ..., has had two incarnations, the first from 1988 to 1991, the second from 1999. It has always been held by the Labor party. __NOTOC__ Members Election results Elections in the 2020s 2023 Elections in the 2010s 2019 2015 2011 Elections in the 2000s 2007 2005 by-election 2003 Elections in the 1990s 1999 1991 - 1999 District abolished 1990 by-election Elections in the 1980s 1988 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Macquarie Fields New South Wales state electoral results by district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of New South Wales State By-elections
This is a list of by-elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. A by-election may be held when a member's seat becomes vacant through resignation, death or some other reasons. These are referred to as casual vacancies. *Brackets around a date (D/M/Y) indicate that the candidate was unopposed when nominations closed or that, as a result of an appeal against an election result, the sitting member was replaced by the appellant. These candidates were declared "elected unopposed" with effect from the date of the closing of nominations or appeal decision, and there was no need to hold a by-election. *By-elections which resulted in a change in party representation are highlighted as: Gains for the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party and its splinter groups in ; for the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), Liberal Party and its predecessors in ; for the National Party of Australia – NSW, National Party and its predecessors in ; for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
