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Electoral Results For The Division Of Parramatta
This is a list of electoral results for the Division of Parramatta in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...n federal elections from the division's creation in 1901 until the present. Members Election results Elections in the 2020s 2022 Elections in the 2010s 2019 2016 2013 2010 Elections in the 2000s 2007 , - , , , style="text-align:left;", Communist League , style="text-align:left;", Alasdair Macdonald , style="text-align:right;", 174 , style="text-align:right;", 0.20 , style="text-align:right;", +0.20 , - The sitting member was Julie Owens () however a redistribution made it a notional seat with a margin of 1.1%. 2004 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Parramatta
The Division of Parramatta is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the locality of Parramatta. The name Parramatta has been sourced to an Aboriginal word for the area. The Darug people had lived in the area for many generations, and regarded the area as a food bowl, rich in food from the river and forests. They called the area Baramada or Burramatta ("Parramatta") which means "the place where the eels lie down". The division is based in the western suburbs of Sydney. Besides Parramatta, it includes Camellia, Clyde, Constitution Hill, Dundas Valley, Granville, Harris Park, Holroyd, Mays Hill, North Parramatta, Oatlands, Rosehill, Rydalmere, Telopea, Wentworthville, Westmead; and parts of Carlingford, Dundas, Ermington, Guildford, Merrylands, North Rocks, Northmead, Old Toongabbie, Pendle Hill, South Granv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 By-election
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 12 ** Zanzibar Revolution: The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels; a United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Australian Federal Election
The 2007 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 24 November 2007. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of the seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The election featured a 39-day campaign, with 13.6 million Australians enrolled to vote. The centre-left Australian Labor Party opposition, led by Kevin Rudd and deputy leader Julia Gillard, defeated the incumbent centre-right Coalition government, led by Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister, John Howard, and Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Mark Vaile, by a landslide. The election marked the end of the 11 year Howard Liberal-National Coalition government that had been in power since the 1996 election. This election also marked the start of the six-year Rudd-Gillard Labor government. Future Prime Minister Scott Morrison, future opposition leader Bill Shorten and future Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles entered parliament at this election. This would be the last tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022
File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat (Sri Lanka), Presidential Secretariat; The 2022 monkeypox outbreak, global monkeypox outbreak begins in the United Kingdom on 6 May; Lying-in-State of Elizabeth II at Westminster Hall; A child stands among the rubble of a house after the June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China; Demonstrators on the central square of Aktobe during the 2022 Kazakh unrest; A Russian BMP-3 near Mariupol destroyed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 400 200 Assassination of Shinzo Abe rect 400 0 800 400 2022 Sri Lankan protests rect 800 0 1200 400 2022 monkeypox outbreak rect 0 400 600 800 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine rect 600 400 1200 800 Death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Charlton (politician)
Andrew Charlton (born 1979) is an Australian politician and economist who has been Member of Parliament (Australia), Member of Parliament for the division of Parramatta since 2022 Australian federal election, 2022. Charlton has been described as a "centrist, evidence-based, data-driven economist with entrepreneurial flair". He is the author of ''Ozonomics'' and co-author of ''Joseph Stiglitz#Fair Trade for All (2005), Fair Trade for All'' with Joseph Stiglitz. Early life and education Andrew Charlton was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1979. Charlton won the university medal for economics at the University of Sydney, where he was a resident of St Paul's College, University of Sydney, St Paul's College, and as a Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes Scholar received a PhD in economics from the University of Oxford. Career Economic adviser From December 2007 to June 2010, Charlton served as the chief economic adviser to Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. This perio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history at the time. * January 4 – NASA's MER-A (Spirit) spacecraft lands on the surface of Mars. * January 6 - Construction on the tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa begins in Dubai UAE * January 8 – The RMS ''Queen Mary 2'', at the time the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by its namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. * January 25 – NASA's MER-B (Opportunity) spacecraft lands on the surface of Mars. February * February 4 – Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, later renamed to Facebook, a social networking website for Harvard Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Owens
Julie Ann Owens (born 17 October 1958) is an Australian former politician who served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives for Parramatta from 2004 to 2022 , when she retired from politics. Early life Owens was born on 17 October 1958 in Rockhampton, Queensland. Her family moved to Brisbane as a result of her father's career in the army. Owens attended Everton Park State High School. She went on to attend the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, studying piano under Nancy Weir and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. Owens was a production manager at the Lyric Opera of Queensland from 1985 to 1989, where she was involved in productions of ''Aida'', ''La bohème'' and '' Madama Butterfly''. She later worked as a senior program officer at the Australia Council from 1989 to 1993 and CEO of the Association of Independent Record Labels from 2000 to 2004. She was also a small-business owner and completed an MBA at the University of Sydney. Politics Owens' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people 1996 Mount Everest disaster, die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly (sheep), Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur massacre (Australia), Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Gun laws of Australia, Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was Aircraft hijacking, hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Cameron
Ross Alexander Cameron (born 14 May 1965) is an Australian politician who was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 to October 2004, representing the Division of Parramatta, New South Wales. Between 2013 and 2018, he was a contributor and host at Sky News Live, including a controversial stint as a co-host of '' Outsiders'', before his employment was terminated for racist remarks made on air. Early life The son of Jim Cameron, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, he was born in Sydney, New South Wales, grew up in Turramurra in Sydney and was educated at Knox Grammar School and Sydney University. He was a lawyer before entering politics. He was policy adviser and research officer to the New South Wales Minister for Transport, Bruce Baird, and an intern to United States Republican Senator Mark Hatfield. Member of Parliament Cameron was elected to parliament in the 1996 Federal election, winning the Division of Parrama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astrophysics, astrophysicist Carl Sagan states: "''That's here. That's home. That's us.''" ; West Germany and East Germany German reunification, reunify; Police stand on-guard during the Poll tax riots in the United Kingdom; Iraq under Saddam Hussein Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, invades Kuwait, beginning the Gulf War; The 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake kills between 35,000 - 50,000 people in Iran; The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1990 FIFA World Cup rect 200 0 400 200 Human Genome Project rect 400 0 600 200 Pale Blue Dot rect 0 200 300 400 Hubble Space Telescope rect 300 200 600 400 German reunification rect 0 400 200 600 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake rect 200 400 400 600 I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Elliott (Australian Politician)
Robert Paul Elliott (born 24 September 1954) is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 1996, representing the division of Parramatta. Elliott was born in Ballina, New South Wales and earned a Bachelor of Arts and a MLitt at the University of New England. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, a public servant and an electoral officer to Labor MP John Brown John Brown most often refers to: *John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery raid in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859 John Brown or Johnny Brown may also refer to: Academia * John Brown (educator) (1763–1842), Ir .... He was elected as an alderman on Parramatta City Council in 1977 and was mayor from 1984 to 1986. Following the retirement of John Brown, Elliott was elected to federal parliament at the 1990 election. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer in the Keating gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 ** 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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