Anthony Norman Albanese is an Australian politician serving as the 31st and current prime minister of Australia since 2022. He has been the leader of the Labor Party (ALP) since 2019 and the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Grayndler since 1996. Albanese previously served as the 15th deputy prime minister under the second Rudd government in 2013. He held various ministerial positions from 2007 to 2013 in the governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
Brendan Patrick O'Connor is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Skills and Training from 2022 to 2024 in the Albanese ministry after having served in the same portfolio in 2013 in the Second Rudd ministry. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since 2001. He held ministerial office in the governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 to 2013,including as a member of cabinet from 2012 to 2013. He was a member of the shadow cabinet from 2013 to 2022.
Tanya Joan Plibersek is an Australian politician who has been Minister for the Environment and Water in the Albanese government since 2022. She was deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2013 to 2019 and has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sydney since 1998. She previously held ministerial office in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
Amanda Eloise Vanstone is an Australian former politician and a former Ambassador to Italy. She was a Liberal Senator for South Australia from 1984 to 2007,and held several ministerial portfolios in the Howard government. After her resignation from the Senate in 2007,she then served as the Australian Ambassador to Italy until July 2010. Her time as Minister for Immigration was marked by controversies within the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.
Christopher Eyles Guy Bowen is an Australian politician who has been Minister for Climate Change and Energy in the Albanese government since June 2022. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was first elected to parliament at the 2004 federal election. He held ministerial office in the Rudd and Gillard governments from 2007 to 2013.
Anthony Stephen Burke is an Australian politician serving as Leader of the House,Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for the Arts. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),and has served as member of parliament (MP) for Watson since 2004. He held cabinet positions in the governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 to 2013.
Foreign relations between neighbouring countries Australia and New Zealand,also referred to as Trans-Tasman relations,are extremely close. Both countries share a British colonial heritage as antipodean Dominions and settler colonies,and both are part of the core Anglosphere. New Zealand sent representatives to the constitutional conventions which led to the uniting of the six Australian colonies but opted not to join. In the Boer War and in both world wars,New Zealand soldiers fought alongside Australian soldiers. In recent years the Closer Economic Relations free trade agreement and its predecessors have inspired ever-converging economic integration. Despite some shared similarities,the cultures of Australia and New Zealand also have their own sets of differences and there are sometimes differences of opinion which some have declared as symptomatic of sibling rivalry. This often centres upon sports and in commercio-economic tensions,such as those arising from the failure of Ansett Australia and those engendered by the formerly long-standing Australian ban on New Zealand apple imports.
Clare Ellen O'Neil is an Australian politician who is the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness since July 2024,and was the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Cyber Security from June 2022 to July 2024. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2013,representing the Victorian seat of Hotham.
The Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs is a ministerial post of the Australian Government and is currently held by Tony Burke since July 2024 in the Albanese ministry.
The Shadow Ministry of Kim Beazley was the opposition Australian Labor Party shadow ministry of Australia from January 2005 to December 2006,opposing John Howard's Coalition ministry.
Julie Maree Collins is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Tasmanian seat of Franklin since the 2007 federal election. She held ministerial positions in the Gillard and Rudd governments,and is Minister for Agriculture,Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Small Business in the Albanese ministry.
Michelle Anne Rowland is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Division of Greenway in the House of Representatives since 2010. She was a member of the shadow ministry from 2013 to 2022,and was elected President of the New South Wales Labor Party in October 2021. She is now the Minister for Communications in the government of Anthony Albanese following the ALP's victory in the 2022 Australian federal election.
Alan Tudge is an Australian former politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives between 2010 and 2023. He was a cabinet minister in the Morrison government from 2019 to 2022.
Matthew James Thistlethwaite is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2013,representing the electorate of Kingsford Smith. He was formerly a member of the Australian Senate from 2011 to 2013. From 1 June 2022 to 29 July 2024,Thistlethwaite served as Assistant Minister for Defence,Veterans' Affairs and the Republic in the ministry of Anthony Albanese. Since 29 July 2024,Thistlethwaite has served as the Assistant Minister for Immigration.
New Zealand Australians refers to Australian citizens whose origins are in New Zealand,as well as New Zealand migrants and expatriates based in Australia. Migration from New Zealand to Australia is a common phenomenon,given Australia's proximity to New Zealand,its larger economy,free movement agreement and cultural links between the two countries.
David Bernard Coleman is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2013 federal election,holding the New South Wales seat of Banks. Coleman served as the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention from December 2020 until May 2022. He previously served as Minister for Immigration,Citizenship,Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs in the Morrison government from August 2018,although in December 2019 he took indefinite leave for personal reasons. He had earlier served as Assistant Minister for Finance in the Turnbull government from 2017 to 2018.
Patrick Martin Conroy is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the Labor Left faction and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2013. He represented the Division of Charlton in New South Wales until its abolition in 2016,and since then has represented the Division of Shortland. He is currently the Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for International Development and the Pacific.
The Migration Act 1958(Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that governs immigration to Australia. It set up Australia’s universal visa system (or entry permits). Its long title is "An Act relating to the entry into,and presence in,Australia of aliens,and the departure or deportation from Australia of aliens and certain other persons."
The Albanese ministry is the 73rd ministry of the Government of Australia. It is led by the country's 31st Prime Minister,Anthony Albanese. The Albanese ministry succeeded the second Morrison ministry,which resigned on 23 May 2022 following the federal election that took place on 21 May which saw Labor defeat Scott Morrison's Liberal–National Coalition.
The Albanese government is the federal executive government of Australia,led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party. The Albanese government commenced on 23 May 2022,when Albanese and an interim ministry of four other Labor MPs were sworn into their relevant ministerial portfolios by the Governor-General of Australia. The government is composed of members of the Australian Labor Party. The party initially governed with 77 seats on the floor of the House of Representatives,enough for a two-seat majority. Albanese succeeded the Scott Morrison-led Liberal/National Coalition government (2018–2022),which became unable to continue in government following their defeat in the 2022 federal election. This is the first Labor government to be in office at the federal level since the second Rudd government was defeated by the Coalition at the 2013 election. Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles is serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.
