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.
Catherine Fiona King is an Australian politician serving as the Minister for Infrastructure,Transport,Regional Development and Local Government since 2022 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ballarat since 2001. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and briefly served as a minister in the Gillard and Rudd Governments in 2013. She served as Shadow Minister of Health from 2013 to 2019 and as Shadow Minister for Infrastructure,Transport and Regional Development from 2019 to 2022.
Warren Edward Snowdon is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives. He represented the Division of Northern Territory from July 1987 to March 1996,and from October 1998 to November 2001. Since November 2001,he has represented the Division of Lingiari. This electorate includes all the towns and communities in the Northern Territory outside Darwin,as well as Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean. He was the last serving MP who was first elected in the 1980s,and served in Old Parliament House.
Penelope Ying-Yen Wong is an Australian politician who has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs since 23 May 2022. Wong has been Senator for South Australia since 1 July 2002 and has held a number of cabinet portfolios,including Minister for Climate Change (2007–2010),and Minister for Finance and Deregulation (2010–2013). She has been the Australian Labor Party (ALP) Senate leader since 2013,and was Leader of the Government in the Senate in 2013 and from 2022.
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.
Jacinta Mary Ann Collins is a former Australian politician who served as a Senator for Victoria from 1995 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2019. She represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was the party's deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2013. Collins was a parliamentary secretary in the Gillard Government and Minister for Mental Health and Ageing in the second Rudd Government. She retired from politics prior to the 2019 federal election and accepted an appointment as national executive director of the National Catholic Education Commission on 18 February 2019.
Anthony Stephen Burke is an Australian politician serving as Leader of the House,Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for the Arts since 2022. 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.
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.
Katherine Ruth Gallagher is an Australian politician who has been serving as the Minister for Finance and Vice-President of the Executive Council in the Albanese Government since 2022,and formerly served as the 6th Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2011 to 2014. She has been a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory since the 2019 federal election,as a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She previously served in the Senate from 2015 to 2018.
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.
Nicholas John Sherry is a former Australian politician who served as a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Tasmania from July 1990 until June 2012,representing the Australian Labor Party. Sherry was sworn in as the Assistant Treasurer on 9 June 2009,after serving as the first Australian Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law. Sherry was the first Assistant Treasurer from Tasmania.
Joseph William Ludwig is an Australian barrister and retired politician. He was a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland from July 1999 to May 2016,representing the Australian Labor Party. Ludwig served in a range of portfolios in the first Rudd and the second Gillard ministries until his resignation from Cabinet as the Minister for Agriculture,Fisheries and Forestry and Minister Assisting the Attorney-General on Queensland Floods Recovery,in 2013.
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.
Donald Edward Farrell is an Australian politician and former trade unionist. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been Minister for Trade and Tourism and Special Minister of State in the Albanese government since 2022. He has served as a Senator for South Australia since 2016,after a previous term from 2008 to 2014.
The Shadow Ministry of Kim Beazley was the opposition Australian Labor Party shadow ministry of Australia from January 2005 to December 2006,opposing John Howard's Coalition ministry.
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.
The first Rudd ministry (Labor) was the 64th ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 26th Prime Minister,Kevin Rudd. The first Rudd ministry succeeded the Fourth Howard Ministry,which dissolved on 3 December 2007 following the federal election that took place on 24 November which saw Labor defeat John Howard's Liberal–National Coalition. The ministry was replaced by the First Gillard Ministry on 24 June 2010 following the resignation of Rudd as Prime Minister after a successful leadership challenge by Julia Gillard.
Julie Maree Collins is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Tasmanian seat of Franklin since the 2007 federal election. She held ministerial positions in the Gillard and Rudd Governments,and is Minister for Housing and Homelessness and Minister for Small Business in the Albanese ministry.
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.
Matthew James Thistlethwaite is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2013,representing the electorate of Kingsford Smith. He was formerly a member of the Australian Senate from 2011 to 2013. Since 1 June 2022,Thistlethwaite has served as Assistant Minister for Defence,Veterans' Affairs and the Republic in the ministry of Anthony Albanese.
