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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Council, 2022–2026
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council, as elected at the 2022 Victorian state election, 2022 state election. Current distribution of seats : Matthew Guy announced during the 2022 Election Campaign that Renee Heath will not sit in the Liberal party room if elected, due to her "ultra-conservative" views and support of the "abhorrent" practice of gay conversion therapy. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 2022-2026 Members of the Parliament of Victoria by term 21st-century Australian politicians Victorian Legislative Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to its federal counterpart, the Australian Senate. Although, it is possible for legislation to be first introduced in the Council, most bills receive their first hearing in the Legislative Assembly. The presiding officer of the chamber is the President of the Legislative Council. The Council presently comprises 40 members serving four-year terms from eight electoral regions each with five members. With each region electing 5 members using the single transferable vote, the quota in each region for election, after distribution of preferences, is 16.7% (one-sixth). Ballot papers for elections for the Legislative Council have above and below the line voting. Voting above the line requir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Batchelor
Ryan Batchelor is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing the Southern Metropolitan Region since November 2022. Batchelor is a member of the Labor Party. He is the son of former Victorian minister Peter Batchelor Peter John Batchelor (born 21 September 1950) is a former Australian politician who served as an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Thomastown from 1990 until 2010. Batchelor was born in western Sydney .... References Living people Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria 21st-century Australian politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Limbrick
David Boyd Limbrick is an Australian politician. He is a Liberal Democratic Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2018, representing South Eastern Metropolitan Region. He resigned in April 2022 to contest the 2022 federal election as a Senate candidate for his party. In June 2022 he returned to the Victorian Parliament as an MP. Political career In 2018, Limbrick stood as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party for the South Eastern Metropolitan Region South-Eastern Metropolitan Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by proportional representation. The region was c ... in the Victorian Parliament. He was elected to the seat with 0.84% of first preference votes. On 25 November 2021, Limbrick announced his intention to run at the 2022 federal election in the Senate. He resigned from the Legislative Council on 11 April 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legalise Cannabis Australia
Legalise Cannabis Australia, formerly the Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party, is an Australian political party. It has a number of policies that centre around the re-legalisation of cannabis for personal, medicinal and industrial uses in Australia. The party's headquarters are based in Nimbin, New South Wales. History The party has been involved in Glenn Druery's Minor Party Alliance. Formation The group was founded in 1993 by Nigel Quinlan, who ran as a candidate under the name Nigel Freemarijuana. In 2001, Freemarijuana's name was assessed by the Australian Electoral Commission as to whether it was suitable to be added to the electoral roll – the Commission found that it was, meaning Freemarijuana could run as an electoral candidate under the name. Deregistration and re-registration In 2007, prior to the 2007 federal election, HEMP was de-registered as a political party by the Australian Electoral Commission after a random audit of its membership. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Payne
Rachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt Rebecca was Jacob's mother. After Leah conceived again, Rachel was finally blessed with a son, Joseph, who would become Jacob's favorite child. Children Rachel's son Joseph was destined to be the leader of Israel's tribes between exile and nationhood. This role is exemplified in the Biblical story of Joseph, who prepared the way in Egypt for his family's exile there. After Joseph's birth, Jacob decided to return to the land of Canaan with his family. Fearing that Laban would deter him, he fled with his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and twelve children without informing his father-in-law. Laban pursued him and accused him of stealing his idols. Indeed, Rachel had taken her father's idols, hidden them inside her camel's seat cushion, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Galea (politician)
Michael Galea (born 1 February 1979 in Malta) is a retired Maltese Association football, footballer who started playing for Maltese First Division side Melita F.C., Melita and enjoyed most of his career with Birkirkara F.C., Birkirkara where he played as a Forward (association football), striker. Playing career Michael started his career with Melita F.C., Melita and, in fact, he was a Melita product before being transferred to Birkirkara FC during the 1997–1998 season at a very young age of 18 years. Galea is considered to be the best striker that the ‘Stripes’ ever had and, with constant loyalty to the Birkirkara FC shirt, he is the club's best scorer ever. From his first day in the yellow and red shirt, Michael has shown his striker level, and despite being so young, he managed to score no less than 14 goals in his first 1997–1998 season. In the debut of Birkirkara in the UEFA Competitions, Birkirkara was eliminated by the Slovakia's side, FC Spartak Trnava with a 5†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann-Marie Hermans
Ann-Marie Hermans is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Liberal Party and is a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the South Eastern Metropolitan Region South-Eastern Metropolitan Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by proportional representation. The region was c ... since November 2022. Upon election to the Legislative Council, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Emergency Services and Shadow Minister for WorkCover and the TAC in the Pesutto shadow cabinet. Hermans was a school teacher prior to entering politics. References External linksWebsite {{DEFAULTSORT:Hermans, Anne-Marie Politicians from Melbourne Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Liberal Party of Australia politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Tarlamis
Lee Reginald Tarlamis (born 10 July 1975) is an Australian politician who has represented the South Eastern Metropolitan Region for the Labor Party in the Victorian Legislative Council since 2020. He previously served from 2010 to 2014. Tarlamis resides in Melbourne and is of Greek descent. His roots can be traced to the Greek island of Lemnos. Following his defeat at the 2014 Victorian state election, he was appointed as a political adviser for the Andrews Ministry. In 2020 he returned to the Legislative Council, filling a vacancy caused by Gavin Jennings Gavin Wayne Jennings (born 18 April 1957) is an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1999 to 2020, representing Melbourne Province (1999–2006) and then the South Eastern Metropolitan R ...'s resignation. References 1975 births Living people Australian people of Greek descent Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
South-Eastern Metropolitan Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by proportional representation. The region was created in 2006 following the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council. The region covers the outer south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and comprises the Legislative Assembly districts of Berwick, Carrum, Clarinda, Cranbourne, Dandenong, Frankston, Mordialloc, Mulgrave, Narre Warren North, Narre Warren South and Rowville. Members Returned MLCs by seat Seats are allocated by single transferable vote using group voting ticket A group voting ticket (GVT) is a shortcut for voters in a preferential voting system, where a voter can indicate support for a list of candidates instead of marking preferences for individual candidates. For multi-member electoral divisions with si ...s. Changes in party membership between elections hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aiv Puglielli
Aiv Puglielli is an Australian politician who is a member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Victorian Greens, representing the North-Eastern Metropolitan Region, North Eastern Metropolitan Region. He was elected in the 2022 Victorian state election on the 24th count. References Living people Australian Greens members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Year of birth missing (living people) LGBT legislators in Australia Australian people of Italian descent {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick McGowan
Nicholas McGowan is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing the North-Eastern Metropolitan since November 2022. McGowan is a member of the Liberal Party. References Living people Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria 21st-century Australian politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonja Terpstra
Sonja Terpstra is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 2018, representing Eastern Metropolitan Region North-Eastern Metropolitan Region, previously Eastern Metropolitan Region between 2006 and 2022, is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as t .... Terpstra is a member of the Labor Left faction of the Labor Party. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Labor Left politicians Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Women members of the Victorian Legislative Council 21st-century Australian politicians 21st-century Australian women politicians {{Australia-Labor-Victoria-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
