Paul John Keating is an Australian former politician who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996,holding office as the leader of the Labor Party (ALP). He previously served as treasurer under Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1991 and as the seventh deputy prime minister from 1990 to 1991.
John Thomas Lang,nicknamed "The Big Fella",was an Australian politician. He served two terms as premier of New South Wales,in office from 1925 to 1927 and from 1930 to 1932. He was the state leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1923 to 1939 and his Lang Labor faction was an influential force in both state and federal politics,breaking away from the official ALP on several occasions.
Kim Christian Beazley is an Australian former politician and diplomat. Since 2022 he has served as chairman of the Australian War Memorial. Previously,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 33rd governor of Western Australia from 2018 to 2022.
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 only the second time a party had won over 90 seats at a federal election.
Laurence John Brereton is an Australian former politician who was a state minister,a federal member of cabinet,and kingmaker in the election of several Australian Labor Party leaders,including Paul Keating and Mark Latham. He was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1990 to October 2004,representing the Division of Kingsford Smith,New South Wales. He is credited with building Sydney's controversial monorail.
Robert Francis McMullan is a former Australian politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),he was a cabinet minister in the Keating government as Minister for Arts and Administrative Services (1993–1994) and Minister for Trade (1994–1996). He was a member of federal parliament for over 22 years,initially as a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory from 1988 to 1996 and then as a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2010. Prior to entering parliament he was state secretary of the ALP in Western Australia from 1975 to 1981 and national secretary from 1981 to 1988.
The Division of Blaxland is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
This is a list of members of the Australian House of Representatives from 1996 to 1998,as elected at the 1996 federal election.
John Charles Kerin was an Australian economist and Labor Party politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1993. He held a number of senior ministerial roles in both the Hawke and Keating governments,including six months as Treasurer of Australia and eight years as Minister for Primary Industries and Energy,holding the latter role for the longest period in Australian history.
Rear Admiral Peter Ross Sinclair,is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy who served as the 35th Governor of New South Wales from 8 August 1990 to 1 March 1996. Born in Manly,New South Wales,he was educated at North Sydney Boys High School before joining the Navy through the Royal Australian Naval College.
Michael John Lee is an Australian Labor politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives 1984–2001,a minister in Paul Keating's government,and a member of the City of Sydney Council 2004–08.
Ross Vincent Free is a former Australian politician who served as a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the seat of Macquarie from 1980 until 1984,then Lindsay from 1984 until 1996. He served as a minister from 1990 until 1996 in both the Hawke and Keating ministries.
Harry Francis Woods is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1990 to 1996,representing the seat of Page for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He subsequently entered state politics,serving in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2003 and holding ministerial office in the government of Bob Carr.
Jason Dean Clare is an Australian politician serving as Minister for Education since 1 June 2022. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Division of Blaxland in Western Sydney since 2007.
The 1996 Blaxland by-election was held in the Australian electorate of Blaxland in New South Wales on 15 June 1996. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the sitting member,the Australian Labor Party's Paul Keating on 23 April 1996. The writ for the by-election was issued on 13 May 1996.
John Cameron "Robbo" Robertson is a former Australian politician who served as the leader of the Labor Party in New South Wales from 2011 to 2014. Before entering politics he was prominent in the union movement.
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 John Howard's Coalition government.
James Leo Geraghty was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until 1953. He was a member of the Labor Party (ALP) until 1950 and then sat as an Independent Labor member.
A leadership spill of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),the party of government in the Parliament of Australia,was held on 19 December 1991,the second spill in a year. Backbencher and former treasurer Paul Keating defeated Prime Minister Bob Hawke,who had led Labor for eight and a half years.
A leadership spill in the Australian Labor Party,the party of government in the Parliament of Australia,was held on 3 June 1991. It was the first of two ballots that year with Prime Minister Bob Hawke surviving the ballot against Treasurer Paul Keating,who then went to the backbench.
