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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Assembly, 2006–2010
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2010: : On 6 August 2007, the Labor member for Electoral district of Williamstown, Williamstown and Premier of Victoria, Steve Bracks, resigned. Labor candidate Wade Noonan won the 2007 Williamstown state by-election, resulting by-election on 15 September 2007. : On 6 August 2007, the Labor member for Electoral district of Albert Park, Albert Park and Deputy Premier of Victoria, John Thwaites (Australian politician), John Thwaites, resigned. Labor candidate Martin Foley (politician), Martin Foley won the 2007 Albert Park state by-election, resulting by-election on 15 September 2007. : On 2 June 2008, the Labor member for Electoral district of Kororoit, Kororoit, Andre Haermeyer, resigned. Labor candidate Marlene Kairouz won the 2008 Kororoit state by-election, resulting by-election on 28 June 2008. : On 18 January 2010, the Labor member for Electoral district of Altona, Altona, Lynne Kosky, resigned. La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne, Spring Street, Melbourne. The main colour used for the upholstery and carpets furnishing the Chamber of the Legislative Assembly is green. The presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly is the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Speaker. There are presently 88 member of parliament, members of the Legislative Assembly elected from single-member divisions. History Victoria (Australia), Victoria was proclaimed a Colony on 1 July 1851 separating from the Colony of New South Wales by an act of the British Parliament. The Legislative Assembly was created on 13 March 1856 with the passing of the ''Victorian Electoral Bill'', five years after the creation of the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Yuroke
The electoral district of Yuroke was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was situated in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne and was created in a redistribution before the 2002 state election, replacing the former electorate of Tullamarine. Included within its boundaries were Attwood, Craigieburn, Greenvale, Kalkallo, Mickleham and Yuroke, as well as parts of Roxburgh Park, Somerton, and Westmeadows. It was considered to be a very safe Labor Party seat. The seat was abolished by the Electoral Boundaries Commission ahead of the 2022 election and replaced by the electoral districts of Kalkallo and Greenvale. Members for Yuroke Election results See also * Parliaments of the Australian states and territories * List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly: * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859 * Members of the Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Campbell (politician)
Christine Mary Campbell (born 30 November 1953) is an Australian politician. Education Born in Melbourne, Campbell graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education from La Trobe University. She later was Head of the National Women's Bureau in the Shop Distributive Association from 1974–80. She became an emergency teacher and adult migrant teacher in 1981, and joined the Labor Party in 1983. In 1989 she became an electorate officer, and from 1992 to 1995 manager of the Caroline Chisholm Society. Political career In 1996, Campbell was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Pascoe Vale, succeeding Kelvin Thomson, who was elected to the federal seat of Wills. Campbell immediately became Shadow Minister for Family Services and Women's Affairs, and in 1999 moved to the Community Services portfolio. Later that year, when Labor won government under Steve Bracks, Campbell became the Minister, and in 2002 became Minister for Senior Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Bendigo West
Bendigo West is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a electorate, centred on the city of Bendigo west of the Yungera railway line, and includes surrounding rural towns to the west and south-west. It encompasses the localities of Bendigo City, California Gully, Castlemaine, Harcourt, Long Gully, Maldon, Marong, Newstead and West Bendigo. It also includes parts of the Bendigo suburbs of Eaglehawk, Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat. It lies within the Northern Victoria Region of the upper house, the Legislative Council. Bendigo West has generally been a safe seat for the Labor Party. It was created in 1904, when it was won by Labor candidate David Smith by 18 votes. Smith was re-elected several times, but was expelled from the party in 1911 over his support for introducing scripture lessons into state schools. He sat as an independent until the Labor Party split of 1917, after which he joined Billy Hughes' r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cameron (Victorian Politician)
Robert Graham Cameron (born 19 March 1963) is a former Australian state politician. He represented the electorate of Bendigo West in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He served as the Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for Corrections (2006–2010 in the third Bracks Ministry and the Brumby Government). He attended Golden Square High School from 1976 to 78, Bendigo Senior High School from 1979 to 80 and later he also attended the University of Melbourne where he obtained a law degree in 1984. He practiced as a solicitor in Bendigo from 1985 until he was first elected to Parliament in 1996. In the first Bracks Ministry (1999–2002), Bob Cameron was the Minister for Local Government, WorkCover and TAC. In the second Bracks Ministry (2002–2006) he was Minister for Agriculture . While Minister for Local Government, he sacked the then-controversial Melbourne City Council. As WorkCover Minister he reintroduced common law rights for seriously injured work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Hastings
The electoral district of Hastings is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created prior to the 2002 election due to population increases in Melbourne's outer south east. It covers Hastings, Tyabb, Somerville, Bittern and part of Langwarrin. French Island is also included within the electoral boundary. The seat is currently held by former actor and TV presenter Paul Mercurio for the Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known as the Labor Party or simply Labor, is the major Centre-left politics, centre-left List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia and one of two Major party, major parties in Po .... Members for Hastings Election results References External links Electorate profile: Hastings, Victorian Electoral Commission 2002 establishments in Australia Constituencies established in 2002 Electoral districts of Victoria (state) City of Frankston Shire of Mornington Peninsula< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neale Burgess
Neale Ronald Burgess (born 17 August 1956) is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2022, representing the electorate of Hastings. Political career Burgess first ran as the Liberal Party candidate for Hastings in the 2002 Victorian state election but lost the seat in the Labor ‘Brackslide’ to Labor’s Rosy Buchanan. Burgess ran again for the Liberals at the 2006 state election, and succeeded in winning back the traditionally conservative district for the Liberal Party. He later held the seat at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 state elections. Burgess voted against the ''Abortion Law Reform Bill 2008'', and later voted for banning anti-abortion protesters from protesting outside abortion clinics. In May 2018, he revealed he had changed his mind on the issue and now opposed buffer zones. In June 2022, Burgess received a parliamentary suspension following several allegations of inappropriate behaviour beginni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Broadmeadows
The electoral district of Broadmeadows is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of in outer northern Melbourne, and includes the suburbs of Broadmeadows, Victoria, Broadmeadows, Campbellfield, Victoria, Campbellfield, Coolaroo, Victoria, Coolaroo, Dallas, Victoria, Dallas, Fawkner, Victoria, Fawkner, Jacana, Victoria, Jacana and Meadow Heights, Victoria, Meadow Heights. It also includes parts of Glenroy, Victoria, Glenroy, Roxburgh Park, Victoria, Roxburgh Park, Somerton, Victoria, Somerton, and Westmeadows, Victoria, Westmeadows. It lies within the Northern Metropolitan Region of the upper house, the Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council. The seat was created in 1955, and though it was initially won by Liberal and Country member Harry Kane (politician), Harry Kane, has been a safe Labor seat for most of its history. Kane held the seat until his death in 1962, and was succeeded by Labor backbenchers John Wilton (Australian politicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brumby
John Mansfield Brumby (born 21 April 1953) is the current Chancellor of La Trobe University and former Victorian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010. He became leader of the Victorian Labor Party and premier after the resignation of Steve Bracks. He also served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. He contested his first election as premier at the November 2010 Victorian state election. His government was defeated by the Liberal/National Coalition led by Ted Baillieu. Brumby resigned as Labor leader after the election, on 30 November, to be replaced by Daniel Andrews. Within weeks of this leadership change, Brumby left parliament, with a Broadmeadows by-election taking place on 19 February 2011. Brumby currently is the national president of the Australia China Business Council. Early life Brumby was born in Melbourne on 21 April 1953. He is one of four children born to Alison Aird and Malcol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Bundoora
Bundoora is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of in north-eastern Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Bundoora, Victoria, Bundoora, Kingsbury, Victoria, Kingsbury, Watsonia, Victoria, Watsonia and Watsonia North, Victoria, Watsonia North, and parts of Greensborough, Victoria, Greensborough, Macleod, Victoria, Macleod, Mill Park, Victoria, Mill Park and Yallambie, Victoria, Yallambie. It also includes the central campus of La Trobe University. It lies within the North-Eastern Metropolitan Region of the upper house, the Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council. Bundoora has been a safe seat for the Labor Party throughout its history. It was first contested in 1976, and was won by John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria), John Cain, son of former premier John Cain (34th Premier of Victoria), John Cain. He rapidly rose through the parliamentary ranks to become Labor leader in 1981 and premier himself in 1982. Cain was comfortably ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Brooks (politician)
Colin William Brooks (born 9 January 1970) is an Australian politician. He has been a Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2006, representing the electorate of Electoral district of Bundoora, Bundoora. He is currently the Minister for Housing and Minister for Multicultural Affairs since December 2022, having previously served as the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from March 2017 until his ministerial appointment. Early life Born in Sydney, he was educated at De La Salle College Ashfield, De La Salle College in Ashfield, New South Wales, Ashfield before receiving an electrical trades certificate from Petersham, New South Wales, Petersham TAFE. He was an electrician from 1990 to 1996. Political career In 1996, Brooks became an electorate officer. From 1997 to 2005, he served on Banyule City Council, being mayor from 1998 to 1999 and 2001 to 2002. In 2006, he was selected as the Australian Labor Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Williamstown
Williamstown is an Victorian Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It is a 33 km2 urban electorate in the inner south-western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Brooklyn, Victoria, Brooklyn, Newport, Victoria, Newport, Spotswood, Victoria, Spotswood, Williamstown, Victoria, Williamstown, Williamstown North, Victoria, Williamstown North, South Kingsville, Victoria, South Kingsville, Seaholme, Altona, Victoria, Altona and Yarraville, Victoria, Yarraville. The electorate had a population of 54,426 as of the 2006 census. Williamstown is one of only three electorates (along with Electoral district of Brighton, Brighton and Electoral district of Richmond (Victoria), Richmond) to have been List of Australian electorates contested at every election, contested at every election since 1856. It is a very safe s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
