Archibald Ronald Bevis is an Australian Labor Party politician who served as the Member for Brisbane from 1990 to 2010. Bevis held a variety of ministerial,shadow ministerial,and parliamentary leadership positions.
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.
Duncan James Colquhoun Kerr,SC is a barrister. He is a former justice of the Federal Court of Australia. He also served as President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal from 2012 to 2017.
Leo Boyce McLeay is a former Australian politician who served as a Labor Party member of the House of Representatives from June 1979 to October 2004. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives 1989–93. During 1992 he was unsuccessfully censured by John Hewson,at the time Opposition Leader,with a motion of no confidence;Hewson accused McLeay of political bias.
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.
Stephen Francis Smith is an Australian former politician and diplomat serving as the 26th and current high commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom since 2023. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),he was the federal member of Parliament (MP) for the division of Perth from 1993 to 2013,serving in the Rudd and Gillard governments as minister for Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2010,minister for Trade in 2010 and minister for Defence from 2010 to 2013.
Warren Edward Snowdon is an Australian former politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from July 1987 to March 1996,and again from October 1998 until May 2022. Initially representing the Division of Northern Territory,and later the Division of Lingiari,his constituents consisted of all the residents of the Northern Territory located outside Darwin,as well as Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean. He was the last sitting MP who was first elected in the 1980s,and the last who served in Old Parliament House.
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.
Nicholas Hugh Minchin is an Australian former politician and former Australian Consul-General in New York,USA. He previously served as a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing South Australia from July 1993 to June 2011,and a former cabinet minister in the Howard government.
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.
William Richard Shorten is an Australian politician and former trade unionist serving as the current Minister for Government Services and Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme since 2022. Previously,Shorten was leader of the opposition and leader of the Labor Party (ALP) from 2013 to 2019. A member of parliament (MP) for the division of Maribyrnong since 2007,Shorten also held several ministerial portfolios in the Gillard and Rudd governments from 2010 to 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.
Michael John Clyde Ronaldson is a former Australian politician. He was a Senator for the state of Victoria representing the Liberal Party from July 2005 until February 2016,and previously served in the House of Representatives for Ballarat from 1990 to 2001. Ronaldson served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs,the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC,and the Special Minister of State in the Abbott government from 2013 to 2015.
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.
Richard Donald Marles is an Australian politician and lawyer serving as the 19th and current deputy prime minister of Australia and the Minister for Defence since May 2022. He has been the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2019,having served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the division of Corio since 2007.
Michael David Danby is an Australian politician who was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1998 until 2019,representing the Division of Melbourne Ports,Victoria. Danby was briefly Parliamentary Secretary for the Arts,from March to September 2013.
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.
Captain Peter Edward James Collins,was the Leader of the Opposition in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 4 April 1995 to 8 December 1998.
Edham Nurredin "Ed" Husic is an Australian politician serving as Minister for Industry and Science since 2022. Husic is a member of the Australian House of Representatives,elected to represent the seat of Chifley in western Sydney for the Australian Labor Party at the 2010 federal election. He is the first Muslim to be elected to federal parliament,as well as the first Muslim to be made a Minister in the Australian Government.
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. Since 29 July 2024,Thistlethwaite has served as the Assistant Minister for Immigration in the ministry of Anthony Albanese.
