[Australia]: 2005 Australian federal election (House of Representatives)

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17 April 2005​

All 150 seats in the House of Representatives 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate 76 House of Representatives seats needed for a majority​

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Leader:	Julia Gillard	Malcolm Turnbull
Party:	Australian Labor Party	Coalition: Liberal Party of Australia National Party of Australia
Ideology:	Social Democracy Democratic Socialism Social Liberalism	Liberal Party of Australia: Conservatism Liberalism Liberal Conservatism National Party of Australia: Conservatism Agrarianism
Leader since:	2 December 2001	2 December 2003
Leader's seat:	Lalor	Wentworth
Last election (seats):	78 seats	66 seats
Last election (two-party preferred percentage):	52.2%	47.8%
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Pre-Election Members of Parliament​

New South Wales:	Victoria:	Queensland:	Western Australia:	South Australia:	Tasmania:	Australian Capital Territory:	Northern Territory
Anthony Albanese (Grayndler) Tanya Plibersek (Sydney) Jason Clare (Blaxland) Tony Burke (Watson) Stephen Jones (Throsby) Julia Irwin (Fowler) Roger Price (Chifley) Laurie Ferguson (Reid) Sharon Bird (Cunningham) Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter) Jill Hall (Shortland) Sharon Grierson (Newcastle) Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith) Greg Combet (Charlton) Robert McClelland (Barton) Chris Hayes (Werriwa) Chris Bowen (Prospect) Daryl Melham (Banks) John Murphy (Lowe) Justine Elliott (Richmond) Bob Debus (Macquarie) Julie Owens (Parramatta) George Newhouse (Wentworth) David Bradbury (Lindsay) Mike Kelly (Eden-Monaro) Maxine McKew (Bennelong) Craig Thomson (Dobell) Alex Hawke (Mitchell) Brendan Nelson (Bradfield) Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar) Sussan Ley (Farrer) Scott Morrison (Cook) Alby Schultz (Hume) Philip Ruddock (Berowra) Tony Abbott (Warringah) Pat Farmer (Macarthur) Louise Markus (Greenway) Joe Hockey (North Sydney) Joanna Gash (Gilmore) Danna Vale (Hughes) Jim Lloyd (Robertson) Bob Baldwin (Paterson) Kay Hull (Riverina) John Cobb (Parkes) Mark Vaile (Lyne) Luke Hartsuyker (Cowper) Ian Causley (Page) Peter Andren (Calare) Tony Windsor (New England)	Martin Ferguson (Batman) Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne) Kelvin Thomson (Wills) Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand) Brendan O'Connor (Gorton) Harry Jenkins (Scullin) Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong) Julia Gillard (Lalor) Maria Vamvakinou (Calwell) Simon Crean (Hotham) Richard Marles (Corio) Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga) Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports) Alan Griffin (Bruce) Anna Burke (Chisholm) Catherine King (Ballarat) Anthony Byrne (Holt) Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs) Steve Gibbons (Bendigo) Mike Symon (Deakin) Christian Zahra (McMillan) Sharman Stone (Murray) Sophie Mirabella (Indi) Chris Pearce (Aston) David Hawker (Wannon) Tony Smith (Casey) Greg Hunt (Flinders) Kevin Andrews (Menzies) Andrew Robb (Goldstein) Petro Georgiou (Kooyong) Bruce Billson (Dunkley) Peter Costello (Higgins) Fran Bailey (McEwen) Jason Wood (La Trobe) Stewart McArthur (Corangamite) John Forrest (Mallee) Peter McGauran (Gippsland)	Kevin Rudd (Griffith) Bernie Ripoll (Oxley) Wayne Swan (Lilley) Arch Bevis (Brisbane) Kirsten Livermore (Capricornia) Craig Emerson (Rankin) Kerry Rea (Bonner) Graham Perrett (Moreton) Steve Ciobo (Moncrieff) Ian Macfarlane (Groom) Stuart Robert (Fadden) Karen Andrews (McPherson) Alex Somlyay (Fairfax) Peter Slipper (Fisher) Kay Elson (Forde) Michael Johnson (Ryan) Warren Entsch (Leichhardt) Peter Dutton (Dickson) Andrew Laming (Bowman) Teresa Gambaro (Petrie) Mal Brough (Longman) Peter Lindsay (Herbert) De-Anne Kelly (Dawson) Paul Neville (Hinkler) Glenn Churchill (Flynn) Pauline Hanson (Blair) Graeme Wicks (Wide Bay) Robyn Cadzow (Maranoa) Bob Katter (Kennedy)	Melissa Parke (Fremantle) Stephen Smith (Perth) Gary Gray (Brand) Anne Aly (Cowan) Kim Wilkie (Swan) Sharryn Jackson (Hasluck) Peter Tinley (Stirling) Wilson Tuckey (O'Connor) Julie Bishop (Curtin) Judi Moylan (Pearce) Dennis Jensen (Tangney) Mal Washer (Moore) Nola Marino (Forrest) Don Randall (Canning) Barry Haase (Kalgoorlie)	Mark Butler (Port Adelaide) Kate Ellis (Adelaide) Steve Georganas (Hindmarsh) Amanda Rishworth (Kingston) Nick Champion (Wakefield) Tony Zappia (Makin) Patrick Secker (Barker) Rowan Ramsey (Grey) Alexander Downer (Mayo) Christopher Pyne (Sturt) Andrew Southcott (Boothby)	Duncan Kerr (Denison) Julie Collins (Franklin) Dick Adams (Lyons) Sid Sidebottom (Braddon) Jodie Campbell (Bass)	Bob McMullan (Fraser) Ros Kelly (Canberra)	Warren Snowdon (Lingiari) Damian Hale (Solomon)

 

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The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, announced the election for the 41st Parliament at a press conference in Canberra on the 22nd of February, after meeting the Administrator of the Commonwealth (and Governor of Western Australia), Sir Michael Jeffery, at Government House as the Governor-General, Dame Quentin Bryce, was currently in Washington D.C. This was in line with the 10 day deadline after the expiration of the House of Representatives, which occured on the 12th of February (3 years after the 40th Parliament opened). This allowed for the full 58 days for maximum campaigning, though because the election had to be on the Saturday before that, it was actually 54 days as the election needed to be on the 17th of April.

Julia Gillard told a press conference that the election would be about trust. "Who do you trust to keep the economy strong and protect family living standards?" she asked "Who do you trust to keep interest rates low? Who do you trust to lead the fight on Australia's behalf against international terrorism?".

Gillard declined to answer questions about whether she would serve a full three-year term if her government was re-elected. "I will serve as long as my party wants me to," she said.

At a press conference in Sydney half an hour after Gillard's announcement, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull welcomed the election, saying the Hawke-Keating-Beazley-Gillard government had been in power too long (since 1983), now into it's 20th year. He said the main issue would be truth in government. "We've had too much dishonesty from the Gillard Government", he said. "The election is about trust. The Government has been dishonest for too long."

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