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Electoral District Of Morwell
The electoral district of Morwell is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers the regional centres of Moe, Morwell and Traralgon, as well as the surrounding rural areas in the middle of Gippsland. Created in 1955, it was held by the Liberals until the 1970 election, when it was won by Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour .... They held the seat until the 2006 election, when the Nationals gained the seat. In 2017, Nationals MP Russell Northe resigned from the party, becoming an independent. At the 2022 election, the Nationals regained the seat with Martin Cameron being elected. Members for Morwell Election results External links Electorate profile: Morwell District, Victorian Electoral Commission References Ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Martin Cameron (Victorian Politician)
Martin Cameron is an Australian politician who is the current member for the district of Morwell in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Nationals and was elected in the 2022 state election, following the retirement of former member Russell Northe Russell John Northe (born 6 February 1966) is an Australian former politician who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 until his retirement in 2022. Prior to winning preselection by The Nationals for the seat of Morwel .... Cameron has stated that he was a plumber. References Living people Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria 21st-century Australian politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-National-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Russell Northe
Russell John Northe (born 6 February 1966) is an Australian former politician who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 until his retirement in 2022. Prior to winning preselection by The Nationals for the seat of Morwell, he was a local Australian rules footballer. He resigned from The Nationals in August 2017, and served the rest of his time in office as an independent member of parliament. Following Northe's retirement at the 2022 state election, National member Martin Cameron won Northe's previous seat of Morwell. Early life and education Northe was born in Traralgon, Victoria and attended Traralgon High School, completing Year 11 in 1982. In 2006, Northe completed a Certificate IV in Business. Political and parliamentary career With repetitive television advertising and campaigning on the issues of workers' rights and bicycle paths, Northe was able to capitalise on divisions within some local branches of the Labor Party to win the seat. Northe do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1955 Establishments In Australia
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first Nuclear marine propulsion, nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18–January 20, 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Taiwan from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Electoral Districts Of Victoria (state)
Electoral districts of Victoria are the electoral districts, commonly referred to as "seats" or "electorates", into which the Australian State of Victoria, Australia, Victoria is divided for the purpose of electing members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, one of the two houses of the Parliament of Victoria, Parliament of the State. The State is divided into 88 single-member districts. The Legislative Assembly has had 88 electorates since the 1985 election, increased from 81 previously. Electoral boundaries are redrawn from time to time, in a process called ''redivision''. The last redivision took place in 2021, when the Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission reviewed Victoria's district boundaries. The boundaries arising from the 2013 redivision applied at the 2014 Victorian state election, 2014 and the 2018 Victorian state election, 2018 state elections. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Independent Politician
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or Bureaucracy, bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brendan Jenkins
Brendan James Jenkins (born 1 October 1959 in Bendigo, Victoria) is the former Labor Party member for Morwell in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Jenkins lost his seat to Nationals candidate Russell Northe Russell John Northe (born 6 February 1966) is an Australian former politician who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 until his retirement in 2022. Prior to winning preselection by The Nationals for the seat of Morwel ... after a swing to the Nationals in the 2006 election. References 1959 births Living people[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Keith Hamilton (politician)
Keith Graeme Hamilton (born 9 May 1936 in Ballarat, Victoria) is the former Labor Party member for Morwell in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Hamilton served as the Member for Morwell from October 1988 until being succeeded by fellow Labor Party member Brendan Jenkins, in November 2002. Hamilton served in the Bracks Government's first term as Minister for Agriculture and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. Hamilton attended Ballarat Teachers' College, a predecessor institution of the University of Ballarat The University of Ballarat, Australia was a dual-sector university with multiple campuses in Victoria, Australia, including its main Ballarat campus, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide that were authorized by the university to provide diploma, un ..., graduating in 1955. He sat on the Ballarat Teachers' College Library Group Committee, the Sports Committee and won awards for football and athletics in 1955.''Extra Muros'', Student Magazine, Ballarat Teachers' Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Valerie Callister
Valerie Joy Callister (born 16 June 1950) is a former Australian politician. She was born in Leongatha to farmer Herbert Charles Callister and Alma Joyce. She attended local state schools and received a Bachelor of Arts from the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, a Diploma of Education from the State College of Victoria, and a Graduate Diploma in Health Administration from La Trobe University. She worked as a schoolteacher, teaching at Traralgon from 1975 to 1981. She joined the Labor Party in 1976, and in a 1981 by-election was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Morwell. She was briefly unseated on a technicality in 1984, but served until 1988, when she retired. Following her retirement she worked as the regional Gippsland coordinator for Alcohol and Drug Services (1989–92), the Victorian state director of Greening Australia (1989–91), manager of the Moe/Narracan The electoral district of Narracan is an electoral district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Derek Amos
Derek Godfry Ian Amos (born 5 August 1942) is an Australian politician. He was born at Greenford, Victoria, Greenford to carpenter Harold Arthur Edward Amos and Irene Mary. He attended Traralgon High School and worked as a painter from 1956. In 1962 he married Noela Matters, with whom he had three children. A painting contractor from 1963, he also worked as an insurance salesman and driver. In 1966, motivated by opposition to the Vietnam War, he joined the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party, becoming treasurer of the Traralgon, Victoria, Traralgon branch. In 1967 he was president of Latrobe Valley Young Labor. In 1970 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Electoral district of Morwell, Morwell. He was the party spokesman on state development from 1971 to 1973 and on minerals and energy from 1973 to 1981, and contested the leadership in 1976 without success. In 1981 he resigned due to ill health. As part of the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Archie Tanner
Archie Lionel Tanner (18 April 1908 – 23 August 1975) was an Australian politician. He was born in Beverley in Western Australia to publican Edgar Tanner and Emily Prosser. His family moved to Victoria and he attended All Saints Grammar School in St Kilda before becoming an accountant with the Commercial Bank of Australia. On 3 June 1933, he married Edna May Smith, with whom he had two daughters. During World War II, he served with the Royal Australian Air Force. Tanner was a lightweight amateur boxing champion, and was a referee at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956, Rome in 1960, Tokyo in 1964 and Mexico City in 1968, as well as at the Commonwealth Games in Perth in 1962 and Kingston, Jamaica, in 1966. In 1967 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Morwell, but he was defeated in 1970. He returned to banking and retired in 1973. His brother Sir Edgar Tanner and nephew Ted Tanner also served in the Victorian Parliament. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jim Balfour
James Charles Murray Balfour, (30 September 1914 – 19 May 1990) was a long-serving Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) and Cabinet Minister in the Legislative Assembly, in the State Parliament of Victoria, Australia. Born in the Melbourne suburb of Windsor to James Miller Balfour and his wife Katrine Elizabeth Alice (née Murray), Balfour was educated at Geelong College. He went on to become a dairy farmer, settling at Willow Grove near Trafalgar in the Latrobe Valley of Gippsland, Victoria. On 6 February 1937 he married Mary Emma Savige, with whom he had five sons. From 1946 to 1967, Balfour served on Narracan Shire Council, and served as President from 1946 to 1947, 1950-1951, and 1960-1961. In 1955, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Morwell, representing the Liberal Party. From 1958 to 1961 he was Government Whip, and from 1961 to 1964 Cabinet Secretary. In 1964, he entered Cabinet as Minister of Water Supply and Mines, a portfolio th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2022 Victorian State Election
The 2022 Victorian state election was held on Saturday, 26 November 2022 to elect the 60th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly (lower house) and all 40 seats in the Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council (upper house) were up for election at the time the writs were issued, however the election in the district of Electoral district of Narracan, Narracan was deferred due to the death of a candidate. Despite a reduction in their primary and two-party-preferred vote, Labor was re-elected in a second consecutive Landslide victory, landslide, winning 56 seats in the 88-seat Legislative Assembly, a net increase of one seat from the 2018 Victorian state election, previous election in 2018. This was the sixth time that a Labor government was re-elected in Victoria, and it was Victorian Labor's second-best seat count at a state election, bested only by their result in the 2002 Victorian state election, 2002 election. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
