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.
John Duncan AndersonFTSE is an Australian politician and commentator who served as the 11th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and leader of the National Party from 1999 to 2005. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1989 to 2007,serving as Minister for Primary Industries and Energy from 1996 to 1998 and Minister for Transport and Regional Development from 1998 to 2005 in the Howard government.
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 the second time a party won over 90 seats at a federal election.
Peter Keaston Reith was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1982 to 1983 and from 1984 to 2001,representing the Liberal Party. He was the party's deputy leader from 1990 to 1993,and served as a minister in the Howard government.
Andrew John Robb is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2016,representing the Liberal Party. He served as Minister for Trade and Investment (2013–2016) in the Abbott and Turnbull governments,and also briefly as Minister for Vocational and Further Education in the Howard government in 2007. Before entering parliament,he was the federal director of the Liberal Party and oversaw the party's return to government at the 1996 federal election.
The following lists events that happened during 1993 in Australia.
Richard Andrew Farley was an Australian journalist,politician,land rights and civil rights activist for the rights of Indigenous Australians. He emerged in the public's eye as a prominent member of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation,an organisation that looked to establish healthy,multicultural relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians.
A political family of Australia is a family in which multiple members are involved in Australian politics,particularly electoral politics. Members may be related by blood or marriage;often several generations or multiple siblings may be involved.
Fightback! was a 650-page economic policy package document proposed by John Hewson,federal leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and Leader of the Opposition from 1990 to 1994. It represented the start of their new "dry",economic liberal future policy direction,very different from the Keynesianism they previously practised. The package was part of their unsuccessful policy platform at the 1993 election.
Sir Frederick Charles Chaney was an Australian politician. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1955 to 1969,as federal Minister for the Navy from 1964 to 1966,as Administrator of the Northern Territory from 1970 to 1973,and finally as Lord Mayor of Perth from 1978 to 1982.
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.
Kim Desmond Hames is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1993 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2017. He served as a minister in the governments of Richard Court and Colin Barnett,and was deputy premier to Barnett from 2008 to 2016. Hames retired from parliament at the 2017 state election.
The Keating government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Paul Keating of the Australian Labor Party from 1991 to 1996. The government followed on from the Hawke government after Paul Keating replaced Bob Hawke as Labor leader in an internal party leadership challenge in 1991. Together,these two governments are often collectively described as the Hawke-Keating government. The Keating government was defeated in the 1996 federal election and was succeeded by the John Howard's Coalition government.
The Fraser government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. It was made up of members of a Liberal-Country party coalition in the Australian Parliament from November 1975 to March 1983. Initially appointed as a caretaker government following the dismissal of the Whitlam government,Fraser won in a landslide at the resulting 1975 Australian federal election,and won substantial majorities at the subsequent 1977 and 1980 elections,before losing to the Bob Hawke-led Australian Labor Party in the 1983 election.
Western Australia politics takes place in context of a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliamentary system,and like other Australian states,Western Australia is part of the federation known as the Commonwealth 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 Leader of the Liberal Party,also known as Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party,is the highest office within the Liberal Party of Australia and the Liberal–National Coalition. The position is currently,and has been since 30 May 2022,held by Peter Dutton,who represents the Division of Dickson in Queensland. Peter Dutton is the fifteenth leader of the Liberal Party. Dutton is also the first leader of the party to represent a Queensland electorate.
Katherine Ella Chaney is an Australian independent politician,who was elected to the Australian House of Representatives at the 2022 Australian federal election,succeeding Liberal Party MP Celia Hammond in the division of Curtin.
