Simon Findlay Crean was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 2001 to 2003. He represented the seat of Hotham in the House of Representatives from 1990 to 2013 and was a cabinet minister in the Hawke,Keating,Rudd and Gillard governments.
Kim Christian Beazley is an Australian former politician and diplomat. Since 2022 he has served as the Chairman of the Australian War Memorial. Previously,he was leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 1996 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006,having previously been a cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments. After leaving parliament,he served as ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2016 and 33rd governor of Western Australia from 2018 to 2022.
The 1996 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 38th Parliament of Australia. It was held on 2 March 1996. All 148 seats of the House of Representatives and 40 seats of the 76-seat Senate were up for election. The centre-right Liberal/National Coalition led by Opposition Leader John Howard of the Liberal Party and coalition partner Tim Fischer of the National Party defeated the incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party government led by Prime Minister Paul Keating in a landslide victory. The Coalition won 94 seats in the House of Representatives,which is the largest number of seats held by a federal government to date,and only the second time a party had won over 90 seats at a federal election.
Lindsay James Tanner is a former Australian politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),he represented the seat of Melbourne in the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2010 and served as Minister for Finance in the Rudd and Gillard governments from 2007 to 2010.
Gary John Joseph Humphries is a Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He was a member of the Australian Senate representing the Australian Capital Territory for the Liberal Party of Australia from 2003 to 2013. He was the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2000 to 2001;and was elected to the first parliament of the Australian Capital Territory,in 1989,later representing the Molonglo electorate until 2003.
Annette Louise Ellis was an Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from the Australian Capital Territory,from March 1996 to August 2010,representing the Division of Namadgi 1996–98 and the Division of Canberra 1998-2010.
Catherine Fiona King is an Australian politician serving as the Minister for Infrastructure,Transport,Regional Development and Local Government since 2022 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ballarat since 2001. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and briefly served as a minister in the Gillard and Rudd governments in 2013. She served as Shadow Minister of Health from 2013 to 2019 and as Shadow Minister for Infrastructure,Transport and Regional Development from 2019 to 2022.
Kate Alexandra Lundy is a former Labor Party member of the Australian Senate,representing the Australian Capital Territory. Lundy served as the Minister for Multicultural Affairs and the Minister Assisting for the Digital Economy in the Second Rudd Ministry;having previously served as the Minister for Sport and the Minister Assisting the Minister for Industry and Innovation.
The Cabinet of Australia,also known as the Federal Cabinet,is the chief decision-making body of the executive branch of the federal government of Australia. The cabinet is appointed by the prime minister of Australia and is composed of senior government ministers who head the executive departments and ministries of the federal government,this often includes assistant ministers and a number of special envoys and other government advisors. The cabinet is separate to the federal Department of the Prime Ministers and Cabinet.
Stephen Francis Smith is an Australian former politician and diplomat serving as the 26th and current high commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom since 2023. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),he was the federal member of Parliament (MP) for the division of Perth from 1993 to 2013,serving in the Rudd and Gillard governments as minister for Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2010,minister for Trade in 2010 and minister for Defence from 2010 to 2013.
Wayne Maxwell Swan is an Australian politician serving as the 25th and current National President of the Labor Party since 2018,previously serving as the 14th deputy prime minister of Australia and the deputy leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013,and the treasurer of Australia from 2007 to 2013.
Kim John Carr is an Australian former politician who served as a Senator for Victoria between 1993 and 2022. Representing the Labor Party,he was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
John Philip Faulkner is an Australian former Labor Party politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1989 to 2015. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Keating,Rudd and Gillard governments.
John Norman Button was an Australian politician,who served as a senior minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments. He was notable for the Button car plan,which involved downsizing and eventually ending Australia's car industry by reducing tariffs and government protection.
Nicholas John Sherry is a former Australian politician who served as a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Tasmania from July 1990 until June 2012,representing the Australian Labor Party. Sherry was sworn in as the Assistant Treasurer on 9 June 2009,after serving as the first Australian Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law. Sherry was the first Assistant Treasurer from Tasmania.
The 1987 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 11 July 1987,following the granting of a double dissolution on 5 June by the Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen. Consequently,all 148 seats in the House of Representatives as well as all 76 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party,led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke,defeated the opposition Liberal Party of Australia,led by John Howard and the National Party of Australia led by Ian Sinclair. This was the first,and to date only,time the Labor Party won a third consecutive election.
The Shadow Ministry of Mark Latham was the opposition Australian Labor Party shadow ministry of Australia from December 2003 to January 2005,opposing John Howard's Coalition ministry.
Douglas Niven Cameron is a retired Australian politician and trade unionist. He served as a Senator for New South Wales from 2008 to 2019,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
Two leadership spills of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),the official opposition party in the Parliament of Australia,were held on 16 June 2003 and 2 December 2003,respectively. The Opposition Leader,Simon Crean,won the ballot in June against former opposition leader Kim Beazley,but resigned as leader in late November after losing support from his colleagues and did not contest the December ballot which Mark Latham won against Kim Beazley.
The Australian Labor Party held a leadership election on 22 November 2001,following the resignation of Kim Beazley after the party's defeat at the 2001 federal election. Deputy leader and Shadow Treasurer Simon Crean was elected unopposed as Beazley's replacement,thus becoming Leader of the Opposition.
