Kim Christian Beazley is a former Australian politician and diplomat. 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 governor of Western Australia from 2018 to 2022.
Sir William Patrick Deane is an Australian barrister and jurist who served as the 22nd governor-general of Australia,in office from 1996 to 2001. He was previously a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1982 to 1995.
The 2004 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 9 October 2004. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and coalition partner the National Party of Australia led by John Anderson defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Mark Latham.
The Speaker of the Senate of Canada is the presiding officer of the Senate of Canada. The Speaker represents the Senate at official functions,rules on questions of parliamentary procedure and parliamentary privilege,and presides over debates and voting in the senate. The current Speaker is George Furey who assumed office upon nomination by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on December 3,2015,succeeding Leo Housakos.
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 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.
Peter Francis Salmon Cook was an Australian politician. He served as a Labor member of the Senate from 1983 to 2005,representing the state of Western Australia.
Christopher Vaughan Evans is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Western Australia from 1993 to 2013,representing the Australian Labor Party.
Richard Kenneth Robert Alston is an Australian businessman,former politician and former barrister. He served as a Senator for Victoria from 1986 to 2004,representing the Liberal Party. During the Howard Government he held ministerial office as Minister for Communications and the Arts (1996–1997),Communications,the Information Economy and the Arts (1997–1998),and Communications,Information Technology and the Arts (1998–2003). He later served as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2005–2008) and Federal President of the Liberal Party (2014–2017).
Marise Ann Payne is an Australian politician who served in the Morrison Government as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022 and as Minister for Women from 2019 to 2022. She has been a Senator for New South Wales since 1997,representing the Liberal Party.
David Albert Lloyd Johnston is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate from 2002 to 2016,representing the state of Western Australia. Johnston was the Minister for Defence from 18 September 2013 to 23 December 2014,when he was replaced by Kevin Andrews.
Government in Australia is elected by universal suffrage and Australian women participate in all levels of the government of the nation. In 1902,the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia became the first nation on earth to enact equal suffrage,enabling women to both vote and stand for election alongside men Women have been represented in Australian state parliaments since 1921,and in the Federal Parliament since 1943. The first female leader of an Australian State or Territory was elected in 1989,and the first female Prime Minister took office in 2010. In 2019 for the first time,a majority of members of the Australian Senate were women. At the time of its foundation in 1901,and again since 1952,Australia has had a female monarch as ceremonial Head of State,while the first female Governor of an Australian State was appointed in 1991,and the first female Governor-General of Australia took office in 2008.
Nigel Gregory Scullion is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for the Northern Territory from 2001 to 2019. He was a member of the Country Liberal Party (CLP) and sat with the National Party in federal parliament. He held ministerial office under four prime ministers.
Patrick Lionel Djargun Dodson is an Australian politician representing Western Australia in the Australian Senate. He is a Yawuru elder from Broome,Western Australia. He has been chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation,a Commissioner into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody,and a Roman Catholic priest. He was the winner of the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize and the 2009 John Curtin Medallist. His brother is Mick Dodson,also a national Indigenous Australian leader.
Frederick Michael Chaney,AO is a former Australian politician who was deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 1989 to 1990 and served as a minister in the Fraser Government. He was a Senator for Western Australia from 1974 to 1990,and then served a single term in the House of Representatives from 1990 to 1993.
Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann is a Belgian-born Australian politician and diplomat who currently serves as Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),having assumed the office on 1 June 2021.
Michael Gerard L'Estrange is an Australian academic and former public servant. He is the former Head of the National Security College at the Australian National University,in Canberra. L'Estrange had earlier served a long career in the Australian public service including as a diplomat and as Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Peter Roger Shergold is an Australian academic,company director,and former public servant. Shergold has been the Chancellor of Western Sydney University since 2011.
Dean Anthony Smith is an Australian politician and Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since 2012,representing Western Australia.
Matthew James Keogh is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel in the Albanese government since 2022. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2016,representing the Western Australian seat of Burt. He worked as a lawyer before entering politics.
