Simon Findlay Crean was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 2001 to 2003. He represented the seat of Hotham in the House of Representatives from 1990 to 2013 and was a cabinet minister in the Hawke,Keating,Rudd and Gillard governments.
Julia Eileen Gillard is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia and the leader of the Labor Party (ALP) from 2010 to 2013. She was the member of parliament (MP) for the Victorian division of Lalor from 1998 to 2013. She previously served as the 13th deputy prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010,under Kevin Rudd. She is the first and only woman to hold either office in Australian history.
Jennifer Louise Macklin is an Australian former politician. She was elected to federal parliament at the 1996 federal election and served as the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2001 to 2006,under opposition leaders Simon Crean,Mark Latham and Kim Beazley. After the ALP won government at the 2007 election,she held ministerial office under Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard,serving as Minister for Families,Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (2007–2013) and Minister for Disability Reform (2011–2013). She retired from parliament at the 2019 election.
Craig Anthony Emerson is an Australian economist and former politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party,he served as the Australian House of Representatives Member for the Division of Rankin in Queensland from 1998 until 2013. Emerson also served as Minister for Trade and Competitiveness,Minister for Tertiary Education,Skills,Science and Research and Minister for Competition Policy,Small Business and Consumer Affairs in the Rudd and Gillard Governments.
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.
Penelope Ying-Yen Wong is an Australian politician who is serving as the minister for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Government in the Senate in the Albanese government since 2022. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),she has been a senator for South Australia since 2002. Wong previously served as minister for Climate Change and minister for Finance and Deregulation during the governments of Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 until 2013.
Kim John Carr is an Australian former politician who served as a Senator for Victoria between 1993 and 2022. Representing the Labor Party,he was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
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.
Judith Mary Troeth AM is a former Australian politician. She was a Senator for Victoria from 1993 to 2011,representing the Liberal Party. She served as a parliamentary secretary in the Howard government from 1997 to 2004. Prior to entering politics she was a schoolteacher and farmer.
John Philip Faulkner is an Australian former Labor Party politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1989 to 2015. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Keating,Rudd and Gillard governments.
Christopher Vaughan Evans is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Western Australia from 1993 to 2013,representing the Australian Labor Party.
WorkChoices was the name given to changes made to the federal industrial relations laws in Australia by the Howard government in 2005,being amendments to the Workplace Relations Act 1996 by the Workplace Relations Amendment Act 2005,sometimes referred to as the Workplace Relations Amendment Act 2005,that came into effect on 27 March 2006.
Ursula Mary Stephens is a former Australian politician. She served as a Senator for New South Wales from 2002 to 2014,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She was a parliamentary secretary in the Rudd and Gillard governments from 2007 to 2010. In 2019 she was appointed CEO of Catholic Social Services Australia.
Jan Elizabeth McLucas is a former Australian politician. McLucas was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate representing Queensland from 1999 to 2016. McLucas was the Minister for Human Services in the Rudd Government till the 2013 Election.
Gregory Ivan Combet is the chairman of Australia’s sovereign wealth fund,the Future Fund. Prior to this he served as chair of the Australian Government Net Zero Economy Agency,overseeing the economic transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy and net zero emissions.
The Shadow Ministry of Mark Latham was the opposition Australian Labor Party shadow ministry of Australia from December 2003 to January 2005,opposing John Howard's Coalition ministry.
A leadership spill occurred in the Australian Labor Party on 24 June 2010. Kevin Rudd,the prime minister of Australia,was challenged by Julia Gillard,the deputy prime minister of Australia,for the leadership of the Australian Labor Party. Gillard won the election unopposed after Rudd declined to contest,choosing instead to resign. Gillard was duly sworn in as prime minister by Quentin Bryce,the Governor-General,on 24 June 2010 at Government House,becoming Australia's first female prime minister.
The Gillard government was the Government of Australia led by the 27th prime minister of Australia,Julia Gillard,of the Australian Labor Party. The Gillard government succeeded the first Rudd government by way of the Labor Party leadership spill,and began on 24 June 2010,with Gillard sworn in as prime minister by the governor-general of Australia,Quentin Bryce. The Gillard government ended when Kevin Rudd won back the leadership of the Australian Labor Party on 26 June 2013 and commenced the second Rudd government.
The Second Gillard ministry (Labor) was the 66th ministry of the Australian Government,led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard. It succeeded the first Gillard ministry upon its swearing in by Governor-General Quentin Bryce on 14 September 2010 after the 2010 election.
Raffaele "Raff" Ciccone is an Australian politician who is a Senator for Victoria,representing the Australian Labor Party. He was appointed to the Senate on 6 March 2019 following the resignation of Jacinta Collins,becoming the 100th Senator to represent the state of Victoria.
