Bill Taylor | |
---|---|
Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories | |
In office 4 February 1999 –30 July 2003 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governors-General | Sir William Deane Peter Hollingsworth Michael Jeffery |
Preceded by | Ronald Harvey |
Succeeded by | Evan Williams |
Member of the Australian Parliament for Groom | |
In office 9 April 1988 –31 August 1998 | |
Preceded by | Tom McVeigh |
Succeeded by | Ian Macfarlane |
Personal details | |
Born | Toowoomba,Queensland,Australia | 14 September 1938
Political party | Liberal |
Occupation | Naval officer |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Australia |
Branch/service | Royal Australian Navy |
Years of service | 1957–1988 |
Rank | Commodore |
Commodore William Leonard Taylor, AM (born 14 September 1938) is a former Australian naval officer and politician. He was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy,resigning to run for federal parliament. He represented the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives from 1988 to 1998,holding the Queensland seat of Groom. He later served as administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories from 1999 to 2003.
Taylor was born on 14 September 1938 in Toowoomba,Queensland. He attended Toowoomba Grammar School. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts from the Campaspe College of Adult Education and Master of Literature from the University of New England. [1]
Taylor joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1957. He was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1971,commander in 1974,captain in 1981 and commodore in 1986. [1]
Taylor joined the Liberal Party in 1972. He was elected to parliament at the 1988 Groom by-election,which followed the retirement of Nationals MP Tom McVeigh. He recorded a primary-vote swing of nearly 20 points for the Liberals. [2] His campaign was helped by the endorsement of former state Nationals leader Joh Bjelke-Petersen. [3]
In parliament,Taylor served on the Joint Statutory Committees on Public Works and Public Accounts and chaired the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties from 1996 to 1998. He was re-elected at the 1990,1993 and 1996 federal elections. [1] At the leadership election which followed the Coalition's loss at the 1990 election,he was a candidate for the Liberal Party's deputy leadership. [4]
In 1994,Taylor emerged as a prominent opponent of John Hewson's leadership of the Liberal Party. [5] He was described by the Canberra Times as a "long-time supporter of leadership aspirant Bronwyn Bishop". [6] He appeared on Four Corners in February stating that the opposition would not win the next election under Hewson's leadership, [7] and in May publicly stated that Hewson should "move on". [8]
Taylor retired from politics at the 1998 election,endorsing Ian Macfarlane as his successor. In 2015,following Macfarlane's attempted defection to the Nationals,he published an opinion piece in The Toowoomba Chronicle ,stating he had "regretted my endorsement ever since". [9]
From 1999 to 2003 Taylor served as administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories,based on Christmas Island. His tenure was relatively eventful,including the Tampa affair of 2001,a possible typhoid outbreak, [10] and the creation of the Christmas Island Detention Centre. [11]
Andrew Sharp Peacock was an Australian politician and diplomat. He served as a cabinet minister and went on to become leader of the Liberal Party on two occasions,leading the party to defeat at the 1984 and 1990 elections.
Peter Howard Costello is an Australian businessman,lawyer and former politician who served as the treasurer of Australia in government of John Howard from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving treasurer in Australia's history. Costello was a member of parliament (MP) of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2009,representing the Division of Higgins. He also served as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 2007.
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.
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.
Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop is an Australian former politician. She was a member of federal parliament for almost 30 years,the longest period of service by a woman. A member of the Liberal Party,she was a minister in the Howard government from 1996 to 2001 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015.
Robert Francis McMullan is an Australian former politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. He was the first person to represent the Australian Capital Territory in both houses of federal parliament
Ian Elgin MacfarlaneHonFAusIMM is an Australian former politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2016,representing the Liberal Party. He served as a minister in the Howard and Abbott governments.
Raymond John Groom is an Australian lawyer and former sportsman and politician,representing the Liberal Party in the Federal Parliament 1975–84 and the Tasmanian Parliament 1986–2001. He was a Federal and state minister for a total of 13 years. He was Premier of Tasmania from 1992 to 1996 and also served as Deputy Premier and Attorney-General.
The Division of Wentworth is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division encompasses the suburbs to the east of Sydney CBD,mostly Woollahra and Waverley council in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.
The following lists events that happened during 1994 in Australia.
Sir Littleton Ernest Groom KCMG KC was an Australian politician. He held ministerial office under four prime ministers between 1905 and 1925,and subsequently served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1926 to 1929.
Susan Christine Knowles is an Australian former politician who served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1984 to 2005,representing the Liberal Party. She briefly served as a shadow minister under John Hewson from 1993 to 1994.
Daniel Thomas McVeigh is a former Australian politician. He served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1988,representing the National Party. He held ministerial office in the Fraser government,serving as Minister for Housing and Construction (1980–1982) and Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment (1982–1983).
Luke Xavier Linton Simpkins is a former Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2016. He represented the Division of Cowan in Western Australia for the Liberal Party.
The 1995 Wentworth by-election was held in the Australian electorate of Wentworth in New South Wales on 8 April 1995. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the sitting member,former Liberal Party of Australia leader Dr John Hewson on 28 February 1995. The writ for the by-election was issued on 3 March 1995.
John Joseph McVeigh is an Australian former politician. He was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2016 federal election,representing the Division of Groom. He was a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and sat in the Liberal party room. During the Turnbull government he served in cabinet as Minister for Regional Development,Territories and Local Government from 2017 to 2018. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2012 to 2016 and was Minister for Agriculture,Fisheries and Forestry under Premier Campbell Newman.
A leadership spill of the federal parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party of Australia was held on 23 May 1994. The incumbent,John Hewson,was defeated by Alexander Downer in a vote of Liberal Party Members of Parliament (MPs) by 43 votes to 36 votes. Downer thus became the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Australia.
A spill of the leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia took place on 3 April 1990,following the defeat of the Liberal Party at the federal election five days earlier. The spill was won by John Hewson over Peter Reith by 62 votes to 13. Reith was then elected deputy leader of the Party.
The 2020 Groom by-election was held on 28 November 2020 to elect the next Member of Parliament for the division of Groom in the House of Representatives. The by-election was triggered following the resignation of incumbent Liberal National MP John McVeigh on 18 September 2020.
Garth Russell Hamilton is an Australian politician who is a member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Groom. He was elected in the 2020 Groom by-election,following the retirement of John McVeigh. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.