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.
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.
Brendan John Nelson is an Australian business leader and former politician. He served as the federal Leader of the Opposition from 2007 to 2008,going on to serve as Australia's senior diplomat to the European Union and NATO. He now has a global leadership role with Boeing,an aerospace company.
John Wayne Olsen,AO is a former Australian politician,diplomat and football commissioner. He was Premier of South Australia between 28 November 1996 and 22 October 2001. He is now President of the Federal Liberal Party,Chairman of the Australian American Association,Chairman of the Adelaide Football Club and Deputy Chairman of the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority.
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.
Robert Murray Hill is a retired Australian politician. He is an Adjunct Professor in Sustainability and Co-Director of the Alliance 21 project at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He is also a Commissioner of the Global Ocean Commission.
Ian Gordon Campbell is a former Australian politician who served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1990 to 2007,representing the Liberal Party. He was a minister in the Howard government from 2003 to 2007.
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.
John Winston Howard is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia,from 1996 to 2007,holding 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 previously served as the 29th treasurer of Australia from 1977 to 1983 under Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. He has also been the oldest living Australian prime minister since the death of Bob Hawke in May 2019.
The Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy was a 1990s Australian legal and political controversy that involved the clash of local Aboriginal Australian sacred culture and property rights. A proposed bridge to Hindmarsh Island,near Goolwa,South Australia attracted opposition from many local residents,environmental groups and indigenous leaders. In 1994,a group of Ngarrindjeri women elders claimed the site was sacred to them for reasons that could not be revealed. The case attracted much controversy because the issue intersected with broader concerns about Indigenous rights,specifically Aboriginal land rights,in the Australian community at the time,and coincided with the Mabo and Wik High Court cases regarding Native title in Australia.
Seymour College is an independent,Uniting Church,day and boarding school for girls,located at Glen Osmond,Adelaide,South Australia.
Christopher Maurice Pyne is a retired Australian politician. As a member of the Liberal Party,he held several ministerial positions in the Howard,Abbott,Turnbull and Morrison governments,and served as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Sturt from 1993 until his retirement in 2019.
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.
Sir Philip Albert Martin McBride,was an Australian politician. He was a United Australia Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for Grey from 1931 to 1937 and the Australian Senate from 1937 to 1944,and a Liberal Party of Australia member of the House of Representatives for Wakefield from 1946 to 1958. He served as a minister in both of Robert Menzies' governments,as Minister for the Army and Minister for Repatriation (1940),Minister for Supply and Development and Minister for Munitions (1940–1941),Minister for the Interior (1949–1950),and Minister for Defence (1950–1958).
The Hon. Honorary Air Commodore Terence (Terry) John Higgins is an Australian-born judge of the National and Supreme Courts of Papua New Guinea,and a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
Eric Roger Goldsworthy AO is a former Australian politician and 3rd Deputy Premier of South Australia from 1979 to 1982. Goldsworthy represented the House of Assembly seat of Kavel for the Liberal and Country League and Liberal Party from 1970 to 1992. Before entering Parliament he was a farmer and teacher. He was also a member of University of Adelaide Council 1970–1973. He became deputy leader of the SA Liberals,and hence Deputy Leader of the Opposition,in 1975 when David Tonkin successfully challenged Bruce Eastick's leadership. As such,he became Deputy Premier when the Liberals won the 1979 state election,also serving as Minister of Mines and Energy,Services and Supply. He remained deputy leader when the Liberals went back into opposition in 1982 under John Olsen,and held the deputy's post until returning to the backbench in 1989.
Andrew Lockhart McLachlan is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 6 February 2020,representing the Liberal Party of Australia. He was previously a member of the South Australian Legislative Council,having been elected at the 2014 state election,and was subsequently elected President of the South Australian Legislative Council in May 2018. He resigned as president and member of the Legislative Council in February 2020,to take up the vacant seat in the Senate caused by the resignation of Cory Bernardi.
Malcolm Alexander Kinnaird AC DUniv FIEAust FTSE (1933–2014) was a South Australian engineer,joint founder of international engineering company Kinhill Engineering responsible for many major engineering projects including the Alice Springs to Darwin railway. Within South Australia,he was responsible for developing West Lakes,North Haven and the David Jones building.
