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Frank Carbone (politician)
Frank Giuseppe Carbone (born 26 March 1970) is an Australian politician currently serving as the Mayor of the City of Fairfield, one of the largest local government areas (LGA) in New South Wales by population. He previously served as a councillor for the City of Fairfield between 2008 and 2012, representing the Fairfield Ward, before replacing Nick Lalich as mayor in 2012. Carbone was re-elected at the 2012, 2016, and 2021 NSW local government elections. Early life Carbone was born at Fairfield Hospital on 26 March 1970. He attended Harrington Street Public School in Cabramatta West, and later Bonnyrigg High School, where he completed his Higher School Certificate. Prior to entering politics, Carbone owned and operated a successful local jewellery business in Canley Heights with his brother Pasquale. Political career In 2008, Carbone was preselected by the Labor Party to stand on their ticket in the Fairfield Ward for the NSW local government election held on 13 Sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairfield City Council
The Fairfield City Council is a local government area in the west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The council was first incorporated as the "Municipal District of Smithfield and Fairfield" on 8 December 1888, and the council's name was changed to the "Municipality of Fairfield" in 1920, before being proclaimed a city in 1979. The City of Fairfield comprises an area of and as of the had a population of . The Mayor of the City of Fairfield is Cr. Frank Carbone, the first popularly-elected independent mayor of Fairfield. Fairfield is considered one of the most ethnically diverse suburbs in Australia. At the 2016 census, the proportion of residents in the Fairfield local government area who stated their ancestry as Vietnamese and Assyrian, was in excess of sixteen times the national average. The area was linguistically diverse, with Vietnamese, Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, or Cantonese languages spoken in households, and ranged from two times to sevent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NSW Government
The Government of New South Wales, also known as the NSW Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of New South Wales. It is currently held by a coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party. The Government of New South Wales, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, was formed in 1856 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended from time to time. Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, New South Wales has been a state of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Constitution of Australia regulates its relationship with the Commonwealth. Under the Australian Constitution, New South Wales, as with all states, ceded legislative and judicial supremacy to the Commonwealth, but retained powers in all matters not in conflict with the Commonwealth. Executive and judicial powers New South Wales is governed according to the principles of the Westminster system, a form of parliamentary government based on the model of the United Kingdom. Legisla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayside Council
Bayside Council is a local government in New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Sydney, around part of Botany Bay, to south of the CBD. It includes suburbs of South Sydney and the St George area separated by the Cooks River. It comprises an area of and as at the had a population of . The Council was formed on 9 September 2016 from the merger of the City of Botany Bay and the City of Rockdale. The Council's mayor is Christina Curry, of the Australian Labor Party, elected by the Council on 5 January 2022. Suburbs and localities in the local government area Suburbs in the Bayside Council area are: Bayside Council also manages and maintains the following localities: History Early local government history Rockdale The City of Rockdale was originally proclaimed as the "Municipal District of West Botany" on 13 January 1871. From 1872, Council met in the first Council Chambers, a small purpose-built stone building on the western side of Rocky Point Road, Arncliffe. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Liverpool (New South Wales)
The City of Liverpool is a local government area, administed by Liverpool City Council, located to the south-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The area encompasses and its administrative centre is located in the suburb of Liverpool. The Mayor of the City is Cr. Ned Mannoun, a member of the Liberal Party. Suburbs and localities in the local government area The following suburbs and localities are located within the City of Liverpool: Demographics At the there were people in the Liverpool local government area, of these 49.6 per cent were male and 50.4 per cent were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.5 per cent of the population; significantly below the NSW and Australian averages of 2.9 and 2.8 per cent respectively. The median age of people in the City of Liverpool was 33 years; significantly lower than the national median of 38 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 22.7 per cent of the population and people a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Canterbury-Bankstown
The City of Canterbury Bankstown (also known as Canterbury-Bankstown Council) is a local government, local government area located in the South Western Sydney, South Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The council was formed on 12 May 2016 from a Merger (politics), merger of the City of Canterbury (New South Wales), City of Canterbury and the City of Bankstown, after a review of local government in New South Wales by the Government of New South Wales, state government. In July 2022, the council began preparations to submit a business case to de-amalgamate the City of Canterbury Bankstown. The City of Canterbury Bankstown comprises an area of and as per the , had a population of making it the most populous Local government areas of New South Wales, local government area in New South Wales. The current Mayor of Canterbury-Bankstown is Khal Asfour, the final Mayor of Bankstown and a member of the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Australia
The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first confirmed case in Australia was identified on 25 January 2020, in Victoria, when a man who had returned from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, tested positive for the virus. , Australia has reported over 9,588,977 cases, over 9,224,255 recoveries, and 12,200 deaths. Victoria's second wave having the highest fatality rate per case. In March 2020, the Australian government established the intergovernmental National Cabinet and declared a human biosecurity emergency in response to the outbreak. Australian borders were closed to all non-residents on 20 March, and returning residents were required to spend two weeks in supervised quarantine hotels from 27 March. Many individual states and territories also closed their borders to varying degrees, with some remaining closed until late 2020, and contin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Government
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government is made up of three branches: the executive (the prime minister, the ministers, and government departments), the legislative (the Parliament of Australia), and the judicial. The legislative branch, the federal Parliament, is made up of two chambers: the House of Representatives (lower house) and Senate (upper house). The House of Representatives has 151 members, each representing an individual electoral district of about 165,000 people. The Senate has 76 members: twelve from each of the six states and two each from Australia's internal territories, the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The Australian monarch, currently King Charles III, is represented by the governor-general. The Australian Government in its executive ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dai Le
Dai Trang Le (Vietnamese: Lê Trang Đài) (born ) is an Australian politician currently serving as the federal member for Fowler, deputy mayor of Fairfield and councillor for Fairfield/Cabravale Ward. Le arrived in Australia in 1979 as a refugee of the Vietnam War after fleeing Saigon in April 1975 and spending four years with her family in refugee camps in the Philippines and Hong Kong. She became an ABC journalist and politician, and was named as one of the 100 most influential Australian women in 2014. In 2012 she was elected as a councillor for the City of Fairfield in New South Wales. At the 2022 Australian federal election, she successfully ran as an independent candidate in the Division of Fowler in Western Sydney. Le is the first refugee and Vietnamese Australian to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives. Early life Le was born in Saigon in 1968, the former capital of South Vietnam. Her family was "closely linked with the Americans" during the Viet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is a centre-right political party in Australia, one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-left Australian Labor Party. It was founded in 1944 as the successor to the United Australia Party and has since become the most successful political party in Australia's history. The Liberal Party is the dominant partner in the Coalition with the National Party of Australia. At the federal level, the Liberal Party and its predecessors have been in coalition with the National Party since the 1920s. The Coalition was most recently in power from the 2013 federal election to the 2022 federal election, forming the Abbott (2013–2015), Turnbull (2015–2018) and Morrison (2018–2022) governments. After the Liberal Party lost the 2022 Australian federal election, Morrison announced he would step down as leader of the Liberal Party. Deputy Leader Josh Frydenberg also lost his seat, making senior Liberal MP Peter Dutton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Fairfield
Fairfield is an New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Western Sydney, Sydney's West. Fairfield has historically been one of the safest seats in New South Wales and is considered a part of Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor's heartland in Western Sydney. It is currently represented by Guy Zangari of the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party. Fairfield includes the suburbs of Carramar, New South Wales, Carramar, Fairfield, New South Wales, Fairfield, Fairfield East, New South Wales, Fairfield East, Fairfield Heights, New South Wales, Fairfield Heights, Guildford West, New South Wales, Guildford West, Old Guildford, New South Wales, Old Guildford, Wakeley, New South Wales, Wakeley, Woodpark, New South Wales, Woodpark, Yennora and parts of Canley Vale, New South Wales, Canley Vale, Fairfield W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Zangari
Gaetano "Guy" Zangari () is an Australian former politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from March 2011 to March 2023, representing the electorate of Fairfield. Zangari is a dual Australian and Italian citizen. Zangari was a teacher at various high schools in Western Sydney for over 16 years. He spent over eight years teaching at Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield, and later worked as a Pastoral Care Coordinator at Freeman Catholic College in Bonnyrigg. On 18 November 2010, he was preselected unopposed for the seat of Fairfield to replace the former Member, Joe Tripodi, who announced he would be quitting parliament at the 2011 NSW state election. Zangari won with 40.7% of the votes, compared to Liberal Party candidate Charbel Saliba who received 37.9%. At the 2015 NSW state election, Guy secured 53.71% of the formal vote after preferences giving him a 15.2-point swing back to Labor. At the 2019 NSW State Election, Guy incr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Prospect
Prospect is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. An urban electorate in western Sydney, it is centred on the suburb of Prospect from which it takes its name. It also includes the suburbs of Arndell Park, Bossley Park, Bungarribee, Girraween, Huntingwood, Pemulwuy, Prairiewood, Wetherill Park, as well as parts of Blacktown, Eastern Creek, Greystanes, Pendle Hill Pendle Hill is in the east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Brierfield, Clitheroe and Padiham. Its summit is above mean sea level. It gives its name to the Borough of Pendle. It is an isolated hill in the Pe ... and Smithfield. Prospect is represented by Hugh McDermott of the Labor Party. Prospect was created as a result of the 2013 redistribution and largely replaced the abolished electorate of Smithfield. Members for Prospect Election results References {{coord missing, New South Wales Prospect 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
