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Events with high posterior probability

Julian Stuart	In 1906, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as Member for Mount Leonora.
Clare Martin	By 2005, the Northern Territory, under Martin's leadership, had achieved the following : As Chief Minister, Martin led the ALP to the 2005 election, which was their first as an incumbent government in the Territory.
Angela D'Amore	D'Amore was elected at the 2003 NSW general election.
Richard Alfred Tills	In 1904, Tills nominated as the Cairns member in the Parliament of Queensland, as a member of the Oppositionist party, but was unsuccessful.
John Brogden (politician)	At the 2007 state election McTaggert was defeated by Liberal candidate Dr Rob Stokes, a former adviser to Brogden.
Eric Abetz	Abetz's brother is Reverend Peter Abetz who won the lower house seat of Southern River in the 2008 Western Australian state election for the Liberal Party.
Adele Farina	Farina contested the 2005 state election atop the Labor ticket, and after the election was promoted to the position of parliamentary secretary.
Clyde Holding	In 1962 Holding was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Richmond, which had previously been held for many years by mostly conservative Catholic Labor Party members, although his immediate predecessor, Frank Crean, was a Presbyterian.
Leo Nott	Nott was elected to the parliament as the Labor member for Mudgee at the 1953 state election.
Ross Clifford	In 2003, after several years of juggling his educational and radio commitments, Clifford attempted to make a move into politics, nominating as a Christian Democratic Party candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Council at the 2003 state election.
Paris Nesbit	He had run without success for the South Australian House of Assembly in 1884, and later became a strong supporter of Federation.
John Vogels	When the Legislative Council was reformed in 2006, he became the top Liberal candidate for Western Victoria Region, and as such was easily elected.
H. B. Higgins	In 1901, when federation under the new constitution came into effect, Higgins was elected to the first House of Representatives for the working-class electorate of Northern Melbourne.
Harry Holland	Later, in 1907, he stood in the New South Wales state elections, but was caught up in strong infighting between socialist groups.
Richard Foster (Australian politician)	Foster won the seat of Wakefield in the Australian House of Representatives at a 1909 by-election for the Commonwealth Liberal Party.
Gordon Wallace Scott	He was defeated by Charles Ernest Gault and was re-appointed to the Legislative Council on June 17, 1932 for the Victoria division.
Ross Vasta	He was defeated by the sitting member, Kevin Rudd, who in November 2007, became Prime Minister of Australia.
Sue Carter	In February 2000, former Chief Minister Shane Stone resigned from parliament, causing a by-election in his safe CLP seat of Port Darwin.
William Lyne	The Free Trade Party was still very strong in New South Wales, and George Reid won the 1895 election and Lyne became Leader of the Opposition due to Dibbs losing his seat.
Justin Madden	At the 2006 Victoria State election he was elected to the Legislative Council as a member for the Western Metropolitan Region.
Shelley Hancock	Hancock has represented South Coast for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2003.
Peter Pyke	In 2012 Peter Pyke ran for the seat of Toowoomba North for Katter's Australian Party and did n't succeed.
Pauline Hanson	In 2003 she left Queensland, moved to Sylvania Waters, Sydney in New South Wales (NSW) and stood for the NSW Upper House in the 22 March State election.
Keith Wright (Australian politician)	Wright remained opposition leader until he left the Assembly in 1984, transferring to federal politics as the Labor MP for Capricornia in the Australian House of Representatives.
William Irvine (Australian politician)	In 1906, Irvine was elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Flinders.
Ross Cameron	Cameron was elected to parliament in the 1996 Federal election, winning the Division of Parramatta from the sitting Labor member Paul Elliott.
John Ollivier	On the first occasion, the resignation of Arthur O'Callaghan from the electorate on 9 November 1888 caused the 16 January between Ollivier and Alfred Saunders.
Matthew Reid (politician)	In 1893, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Labor member for Toowong.
Henry Willis (Australian politician)	Willis was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1901, as the Free Trade member for Robertson.
Thomas Rusden	He represented the electorate of New England and Macleay until the granting of responsible self-government in 1856.
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel	Samuel lost his seat in the election of 1918 and became a candidate to represent British interests in the territory.
Christopher Pyne	Pyne was selected as the Liberal candidate for the state seat of Ross Smith -- a very safe Labor seat -- at the 1989 election, but was defeated by the sitting member and Premier of South Australia, John Bannon.
Bill McCarthy (politician)	In 1981 the seat was abolished, and McCarthy contested the new seat of Northern Tablelands, which was essentially a merger of the old seats of Armidale and Tenterfield.
Archibald Fisken	Fisken was elected to the federal House of Representatives in 1934, as the United Australia Party member for Ballarat.
King O'Malley	O'Malley was defeated at the 1899 state election, and the following year he moved to Tasmania, the smallest of the Australian colonies.
Bob Brown	On the day of his release in 1983, he became a member of Tasmania's parliament for the House of Assembly seat of Denison after the Democrats MP Norm Sanders resigned to successfully stand for the Australian Senate ; Brown was elected to replace him on a countback.
John Darvall	In 1844, prior to the establishment of responsible self-government, Darvall was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council.
Evan Davies (New South Wales politician)	His career was to be short-lived, however ; Davies lost his seat to the United Australia Party's Eric Spooner in 1932, one of many Labor MLAs to lose their seats that year amidst a devastating Labor loss, following Lang's dismissal as Premier by the state Governor.
George Prendergast	He then held it until it was abolished in 1927, when he shifted to Footscray, which he represented until his death.
Frederick Vosper	On 4 May 1897, Vosper was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in the seat of North-East Coolgardie as an independent.
William Butcher	On 24 April 1901, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly seat of Gascoyne as an independent, succeeding George Hubble who had not contested the election.
John Vogels	His seat was abolished in 2002, and he transferred to the Legislative Council, representing Western Province.
Thomas Holt (Australian politician)	Holt was unsuccessful at two attempts to enter the Legislative Council prior to the establishment of responsible self-government in 1856.
William Baillieu	In 1901, Baillieu entered politics, standing for and being elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as the member for Northern Province.
Andrew McDonald (Australian politician)	He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the New South Wales state election, 2007.
Don Chipp	150px | left Chipp entered federal politics in 1960 as the Liberal member for Higinbotham in Melbourne's southern bayside suburbs.
Robert Best (politician)	Best was a strong supporter of the federation of Australia and resigned from the Legislative Assembly and was elected to the Australian Senate in the 1901 election.
Ken Wriedt	At the 1982 Tasmanian state election, Wriedt won a seat in the Tasmanian House of Assembly representing Franklin.
H. B. Higgins	In 1894, Higgins was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as MLA for Geelong.
Stanley Argyle	Argyle was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Toorak in 1920, as an independent Nationalist.
Vasey Houghton	In 1967, Houghton ran for the Victorian Legislative Council, obtaining a seat in the new Templestowe Province.
George Shenton	In July 1894, the Legislative Council became elective, and Shenton was elected to a Metropolitan Province seat.
Ted Malone (Australian politician)	He has been a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 1994, representing the electorate of Mirani for the National Party of Australia and its successor the Liberal National Party.
Don Dunstan	Dunstan was nominated as the Labor candidate for the electoral district of Norwood in 1953.
James Killen	He became Father of the House of Representatives in April 1983, and resigned his seat of Moreton in August 1983 (the first Queensland Member of the House of Representatives to resign), and returned to his legal practice.
Roy Vincent	He moved to the seat of Raleigh as a member of the Country Party when New South Wales reverted to single member electorates at the 1927 election.
Nick Xenophon	He was elected to the Australian Senate at the 2007 federal election, receiving 14.
Matt Thistlethwaite	He was endorsed for a seat in the Senate, representing New South Wales, at the 2010 election.
George Oakes (Australian politician)	As a result of his anti-sectarian stand and opposition to Parkes, Oakes failed at several attempts to re-enter the Assembly but was eventually elected as the member for East Sydney at a 1872 by-election caused by the appointment of Saul Samuel to the Legislative Council.
Alfred Edden	Edden was selected by the nascent Labor party as its candidate for the seat of Northumberland at the 1891 colonial election.
Neil Cole (politician)	In 1988, Cole decided to run for the safe Labor seat of Melbourne in the Victorian Parliament.
Allan McLean (Australian politician)	In March 1901, however, he was elected a member of the first Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Gippsland, and sat as a supporter of the Protectionist Party of Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin.
Rob Hulls	Rob Hulls left Queensland soon after the losing his Federal Parliament seat, and in 1994 on returning to Melbourne was appointed Chief of Staff to the Victorian Opposition Leader, Jim Kennan, former Attorney-General, who resigned from State Parliament shortly after.
John McFarlane (Australian politician)	He became Secretary of North Coast Farmers Co-operative Association in Grafton, and then moved to Sydney when he was elected to the NSW Legislative Assembly as the member for Clarence - as a Protectionist, then Liberal (after 1907).
Ted Baillieu	At Jeff Kennett's insistence, Baillieu nominated for Liberal Party preselection for the safe seat of Hawthorn at the 1999 election, to replace the retiring member Phil Gude.
Maureen Lyster	Lyster was elected to the Legislative Council at the 1985 state election, succeeding veteran Labor MP Eric Kent in his seat of Chelsea Province.
Bob Smith (Australian politician)	When the Legislative Council was reformed in 2006, he won preselection for the third position on the Labor ticket for South Eastern Metropolitan, and was elected.
Bill Shorten	Before taking this post, Shorten had decided to enter Victorian state politics, being elected unopposed as the Labor candidate for the state seat of Melton for the 1999 state election.
Jack Lang (Australian politician)	During the banking crash of the 1890s which devastated Australia, Lang became interested in politics, frequenting radical bookshops and helping newspapers and publications of the infant Labor Party, which contested its first election in New South Wales in 1891.
William Holman	But Holman contradicted his position in 1912 by making nine appointments to the Upper House, some of which were not members of the Labor Party, without consultation with the party machine or the Trades and Labor Council.
Jeff Shaw (politician)	In 1998 Shaw failed to gain a winnable position on the ticket in left wing preselection for the Upper House.
Peter Garrett	Garrett's first attempt at entering politics was in December 1984, when the Nuclear Disarmament Party invited him to stand for a New South Wales seat in the Australian Senate at the federal election.
William Lambert (Australian politician)	Lambert was elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of West Sydney in the 1921 by-election following the death of T. J. Ryan, representing the Australian Labor Party.
William Downie Stewart, Sr.	He was appointed from 22 January 1891 as one of seven new members (including Harry Atkinson himself) appointed to the Council by the outgoing fourth Atkinson Ministry ; a move regarded by Liberals as a stacking of the upper house against the new government.
Leonel Godoy Rangel	Godoy was elected to the Senate as a joint PRD-PT-CD candidate, representing the state of Michoacán, in the federal election held on July 2, 2006.
Warren Truss	Truss's first attempt at a parliamentary seat was in the Queensland state parliament as the Nationals candidate at the 1988 Barambah by-election, triggered by the retirement of former premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Michael Danby	In 1997 he won a hotly disputed Labor Party preselection battle for the right to contest Melbourne Ports, where the sitting member, Clyde Holding, was retiring, defeating Tim Pallas, now a Victorian opposition MP.
Vaiben Solomon	Solomon then became Premier and Treasurer of South Australia for one week, 1 December to 8 December 1899, before further machinations led to new Opposition Leader Frederick Holder gaining the Premiership.
Janelle Saffin	Four years later, she contested and won preselection for the eighth and last winnable position on the Labor ticket for the Legislative Council at the 1995 state election.
Arnold Potts	Following the war, Potts returned to farming in Western Australia and briefly attempted to pursue a career in politics, standing unsuccessfully in 1949 as a Country Party candidate for the federal seat of Forrest on the House of Representatives.
Claude Barnard	In 1950, Barnard was elected to represent the Tasmanian House of Assembly division of Bass and held it until his death.
Lew Johnstone	In 1965, when Ernest Wetherell, the Labor member for the state seat of Cobar, retired, Johnstone was selected as his replacement and won the seat.
Harold Holt	At the 1934 federal election, Holt unsuccessfully contested the safe Labor seat of Yarra for the UAP, running against former Prime Minister James Scullin.
Kevin Stewart (Australian politician)	Stewart defeated Arthur Tonge the sitting member for Canterbury in Labor pre-selection and was subsequently elected as the member at the 1962 general election.
Arthur Fadden	The Coalition won a massive victory in the 1949 election, and Fadden, who transferred to the newly created seat of McPherson on the Gold Coast, became Treasurer in the second Menzies government.
Peter Anderson (politician)	By this time Anderson was seen as an ambitious and divisive threat to Bob Carr (Labor leader since 1988), and the party central office declined to intervene on his behalf or nominate him for the Legislative Council.
Cathcart Wason	Wason was elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives in the 1876 election on 11 January for the electorate (constituency) of Coleridge, and was appointed as a government whip the following year.
Hurtle Lupton	In 1992, Lupton was selected as the Liberal candidate for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Knox, which he duly won.
Clark Irving	In 1856, at the first election held under responsible self-government, Irving was elected as the Legislative Assembly member for Clarence and Darling.
Angus Bethune (politician)	Bethune was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly at the 1946 general election on 23 November 1946, representing the seat of Wilmot (now Lyons) for the newly formed Liberal Party of Australia.
Gerry Sullivan (politician)	In 1991, Sullivan was selected as the Labor candidate for the state seat of Wollongong, at that time held by independent MP Frank Arkell.
John-Paul Langbroek	He won the state seat of Surfers Paradise from one-term independent MP Lex Bell at the 2004 state election, and served in the opposition shadow ministry for a number of years.
John Ballance	thumb | left | 200px | A statue of John Ballance stands outside the New Zealand Parliament Buildings #The Parliamentary Library | Parliamentary Library in Wellington In 1890, Ballance led a loose coalition of liberal politicians to victory in the general election.
Herbert Lloyd	In 1929, he was elected as a Nationalist to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Parramatta.
Rupert Beale	Beale had been unsuccessful as an Independent candidate against the Speaker, Daniel Levy, for the Woollahra seat at the 1935 state election.
James Vinton Smith	Vinton Smith nominated as a candidate for the seat of Oakleigh in the Victorian Legislative Assembly at the 1932 Victorian state election.
Bob Katter	He was an investor in cattle and mining interests before entering politics via the Queensland state parliament in 1974.
Gladys Berejiklian	Berejiklian is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Willoughby for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2003.
Ernest Henshaw	He contested the Australian House of Representatives seat of Perth in the election of 13 April 1910 but was unsuccessful.
William Tanner (politician)	Tanner was considered to be'' the first Labour candidate'' to be elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives in 1890 when he was successful in the Heathcote electorate.