Will Hodgman

Will Hodgman (2012)

William "Will" Edward Felix Hodgman (born April 20, 1969 in Hobart , Tasmania ) is an Australian politician of the Liberal Party of Australia , who has been Prime Minister of Tasmania since March 31, 2014 .

Life

Hodgman came from a politically influential family in Tasmania and is the son of William Michael Hodgman , who between 1966 and 1974 was a member of the Senate (Tasmanian Legislative Council) and from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2001 to 2010 a member of the House of Assembly (Tasmanian House of Assembly) as well as minister under Malcolm Fraser (1980-1983) and several times minister of shadow cabinets of the Liberal Party. His grandfather William "Bill" Clark Hodgman was a member of the House of Assembly between 1955 and 1964 and later a member of the Legislative Council from 1971 to 1983, and most recently from 1981 to 1983 its president. In addition, his uncle Peter Curtis Leigh Hodgman , a younger brother of his father, was a member of the Legislative Council from 1974 to 1986 and then from 1986 to 2001 a member of the House of Assembly.

He himself first completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA), as well as a postgraduate degree in law there , which he completed with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. ) ended.

On July 20, 2002, he was elected a member of the House of Assembly for the Liberal Party for the first time and has since represented the Franklin constituency there . Immediately after his election, he became deputy opposition leader , before becoming opposition leader on March 30, 2006.

On March 31, 2014, Will Hodgman became Prime Minister of Tasmania, replacing Lara Giddings of the Australian Labor Party . He is Tasmania's first Prime Minister of the Liberal Party since 1998.

In the previous parliamentary election on March 15, 2014, Hodgman's Liberal Party received 167,051 votes (51.22 percent) and was thus able to improve its result by 12.23 percentage points. By gaining five seats, the Liberals have an absolute majority with 15 of the 25 seats in the House of Assembly. The Labor Party of the previous Prime Minister Giddings only won 89,130 ​​votes (27.33 percent) and lost three of its ten seats. The electoral loser was also the previous coalition partner Tasmanian Greens , which also lost two of its five mandates, whereupon Nick McKim , previously Minister for Correction, Consumer Protection, Sustainable Transport, Education and Skills in the Giddings cabinet, resigned as leader of the Greens and was replaced by Kim Booth .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Parliament of Tasmania