Paul John Keating is an Australian former politician who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),he previously served as treasurer of Australia in the Hawke Government from 1983 to 1991 and as deputy prime minister of Australia from 1990 to 1991.
Kim Christian Beazley is a former Australian politician and diplomat. 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 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.
Robert Francis McMullan is an Australian former politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. He was the first person to represent the Australian Capital Territory in both houses of federal parliament
The 1993 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 37th Parliament of Australia. It was held on 13 March 1993. All 147 seats of the Australian House of Representatives and 40 seats of the 76-seat Australian Senate were up for election. The incumbent government of the centre-left Australian Labor Party led by Paul Keating,the Prime Minister of Australia,was re-elected to a fifth term,defeating the centre-right Liberal/National Coalition led by Opposition Leader John Hewson of the Liberal Party of Australia,and coalition partner Tim Fischer of the National Party of Australia. This was the first,and to date only,time the Labor Party won a fifth consecutive election.
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 is an Australian economist and former 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 North Sydney Boys High School before joining the navy through the Royal Australian Naval College.
The following lists events that happened during 1991 in Australia.
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.
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 Edward Hatton is a former Australian politician,and a National Trust of Australia nominated Australian Living Treasure. He was the independent member of the Legislative Assembly of the New South Wales parliament for the seat of South Coast from 1973 to 1995. Notably,the allegations about police corruption which Hatton raised in Parliament resulted in the Wood Royal Commission. He is currently a social activist in his local community.
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 the 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.
