John Robert Hewson AM is an Australian former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. He led the Liberal-National Coalition to defeat at the 1993 Australian federal election.
Malcolm Thomas Brough is an Australian former politician. He represented the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives and held ministerial office in the Howard and Turnbull governments.
Petro Georgiou AO is a Greek Australian politician who was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 1994 to July 2010,representing the Division of Kooyong,Victoria.
Alan Peter Griffin is an Australian lobbyist and former politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2016,representing the Victorian seats of Corinella and Bruce for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was a public servant,union organiser and ministerial adviser before entering parliament.
The 2007 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 24 November 2007. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of the seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The election featured a 39-day campaign,with 13.6 million Australians enrolled to vote.
The Division of Bennelong is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and is named after Woollarawarre Bennelong,an Aboriginal man befriended by the first Governor of New South Wales,Arthur Phillip. The seat is represented by Jerome Laxale since the 2022 Australian federal election.
Raymond Steele Hall was an Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. He also served in the federal Parliament as a senator for South Australia from 1974 to 1977 and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996.
John Sydney "Joe" DawkinsAO is an Australian former politician who was Treasurer in the Keating Labor government from December 1991 to December 1993. He is notable for his reforms of tertiary education as Minister for Employment,Education and Training,his period as Treasurer when he attempted to increase taxes in order to balance the budget and his abrupt exit from politics.
John Gilbert Alexander,nicknamed JA,is an Australian former professional tennis player,sports broadcaster,and federal politician.
Alexander George Hawke is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Immigration,Citizenship,Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs from 2020 to 2022 in the Morrison government. Hawke has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mitchell since 2007,representing the Liberal Party.
A Kirribilli agreement,in Australian politics,is an agreement,typically confidential,between a leader and their deputy for the handing over of power on the satisfaction of an agreed precondition.
Maxine Margaret McKew is an Australian former Labor politician and journalist;she was the Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure,Transport,Regional Development and Local Government in the First Rudd Ministry and the First Gillard Ministry.
Ian Malcolm Macphee AO is an Australian former politician. He held ministerial office in the Fraser government as Minister for Productivity (1976–1979),Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1979–1982),and Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (1982–1983). He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1974 to 1990,representing the Liberal Party. He was known for his contributions in developing Australian multiculturalism as immigration minister and for being one of the most prominent "small-l" liberals within the Liberal Party.
John Winston Howard is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia,his eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the second-longest in Australian history,behind only Sir Robert Menzies. Howard has also been the oldest living Australian former prime minister since the death of Bob Hawke in May 2019.
Ross Vincent Free is a former Australian politician who served as a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the seat of Macquarie from 1980 until 1984,then Lindsay from 1984 until 1996. He served as a minister from 1990 until 1996 in both the Hawke and Keating ministries.
Sir John Oscar Cramer was an Australian businessman and politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served in federal parliament from 1949 to 1974,representing the seat of Bennelong. He served as Minister for the Army in the Menzies government from 1956 to 1963. He was also mayor of North Sydney from 1939 to 1941.
Peter Frederick Morris is an Australian former politician. He held senior ministerial office in the Hawke government,serving as Minister for Transport (1983–1987),Aviation (1984–1987),Resources (1987–1988),Transport and Communications Support (1988),and Industrial Relations (1988–1990). He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1998,representing the seat of Shortland for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). His brother Allan and son Matthew were also members of parliament.
A spill of the leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia took place on 29 November 2007,following the defeat of the Howard government at the federal election five days earlier. The resulting ballot was an open race as outgoing prime minister John Howard had lost his own seat at the election,and his preferred successor Peter Costello refused to stand.
John William Bourchier,CBE was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1983,representing the Victorian seat of Bendigo. He served as government whip in the Fraser government from 1975 to 1983.
Philip Maxwell Ruddock is an Australian politician and former Mayor of Hornsby Shire Council. He is a Vice Chair of the Global Panel Foundation Australasia.
