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Peter Robert Garrett AM MP (born 16 April 1953), is an Australian musician, environmentalist and politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives for the seat of Kingsford Smith, New South Wales, since October...
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| x Julie Bishop |
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Julie Isabel Bishop (born 17 July 1956) is an Australian politician and the current Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Australia. She holds this title as the deputy leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. She is the party's first...
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Allan Rocher (born 16 February 1936), Australian politician, is a former Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives, and later an Independent, who represented the blue-ribbon Liberal Division of Curtin in Western...
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John Winston Howard, AC (born 26 July 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies.
Howard was a member of the Australian...
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Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is the 26th and current Prime Minister of Australia and federal leader of the centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP). Under Rudd's leadership, the Labor Party won the 2007 federal election on 24 November...
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Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
Barton's greatest contribution to Australian history...
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| x Charles Salmon |
Charles Carty Salmon (27 July 1860 – 15 September 1917) was an Australian politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Salmon was born at Amherst, Victoria on 27 July 1860 to English-born parents: storekeeper Frederick Browne Salmon and...
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| x Hans Irvine |
Hans William Henry Irvine (2 August 1856 – 11 July 1922) was an Australian politician and vigneron.
Irvine was born in Melbourne on 2 August 1856 to flour-miller John William Henry Irvine and Mary, née Gray. His father had a business at Learmonth,...
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| x Arthur Robinson |
Sir Arthur Robinson KCMG (23 April 1872 – 17 May 1945) was an Australian politician.
Robinson was born at Carlton, Victoria, the son of journalist Anthony Bennett Robinson and Harriet, née Barton, the sister of Sir Edmund Barton. He attended Scotch...
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| x Charles McGrath |
David Charles McGrath (10 November 1872 – 31 July 1934) was an Australian politician. Originally a member of the Australian Labor Party, he joined Joseph Lyons in the split that lead to the formation of the United Australia Party.
McGrath was born...
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| x Rupert Ryan |
Rupert Sumner Ryan CMG (6 May 1884 – 25 August 1952) was an Australian soldier and politician.
Ryan was born in Melbourne to surgeon Sir Charles Snodgrass Ryan and Alice Elfrida, née Sumner. He was one of two siblings; his sister Ethel Marian Sumner...
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| x Richard Orchard |
Richard Beaumont Orchard CBE (14 October 1871 – 24 July 1942) was an Australian politician.
Orchard was born at Cockatoo, near Maryborough, Victoria and moved with his family to Sydney in the 1870s. He spent four years as a travelling jewellery...
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| x Hume Cook |
James Newton Haxton Hume Cook CMG, known as Hume Cook, (23 September 1866 – 8 August 1942) was an Australian politician.
Cook was born in Kihikihi, New Zealand, son of a failed farmer and he had to leave school at 13 to work selling books. He...
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| x Josiah Francis |
Sir Josiah Francis (28 March 1890 – 22 February 1964) was an Australian politician and Minister for the Army.
Francis was born in Ipswich, Queensland and educated at Christian Brothers' College, Ipswich and was appointed as a clerk in the Queensland...
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| x Llewellyn Atkinson |
Llewellyn Atkinson (18 December 1867 – 1 November 1945) was an Australian politician.
Atkinson was born in Launceston, Tasmania. He was elected to the Australian House of Representatives of Wilmot at the 1906 election and held it until his defeat by...
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| x James McColl |
James Hiers McColl (31 January 1844 – 20 February 1929) was an Australian politician.
McColl was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, the son of Hugh McColl, and migrated with his family to Australia in 1853, but his mother died before...
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| x Wal Fife |
Wallace Clyde Fife (born 2 October 1929) is a former Australian politician.
Fife was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales and educated at Gurwood Street public school, Wagga Wagga and Canberra Grammar School. In 1948 he started working in the...
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| x George Fairbairn |
Sir George Fairbairn (23 March 1855 – 23 October 1943) was a pastoralist and Australian politician.
Fairbairn was born in Geelong, Victoria and educated at Geelong Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He rowed for Jesus College Boat Club in...
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| x George Maxwell |
George Arnot Maxwell (30 April 1859 – 25 June 1935) was a barrister and Australian politician.
Maxwell was born in Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland and educated in Fife. He migrated to Australia with his family in 1875. He worked briefly as a...
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Chris Allan Trevor (born 23 June 1961) is an Australian politician. He is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Flynn since 2007. He had previously narrowly lost a contest against...
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Shayne Kenneth Neumann (born 26 August 1961) is an Australian politician. He is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2007, representing the Division of Blair.
Shayne Neumann was born and raised in Ipswich...
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Jonathan Harold "Jon" Sullivan (born 10 November 1950) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2007, representing the Division of Longman.
Sullivan won the seat of Longman for the...
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Stephen James "Steve" Irons (born 1 September 1958) is an Australian politician. He is the Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives for the electoral division of Swan in Western Australia. He was the sole Liberal to unseat a sitting...
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Kerry Marie Rea (born 16 April 1963) is an Australian politician. She is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2007, representing the Division of Bonner in Queensland.
Rea was born in Bundaberg, Queensland...
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| x Fred Bamford |
Frederick William "Fred" Bamford (11 February 1849 – 10 September 1934) was an Australian politician.
Bamford was born in Dubbo, New South Wales and educated at Toowoomba, Queensland. He left school at 14 and worked as a carpenter around the...
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| x Dugald Thomson |
Dugald Thomson (28 December 1849 – 27 November 1922) was an Australian politician.
Thomson was born in Camberwell, London in 1849 and his family migrated to South Australia in 1850 and later moved to Victoria. He completed his education in England...
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| x James Bidgood |
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James Mark Bidgood (born 26 May 1959), Australian politician, is a member of the House of Representatives for the seat of Dawson, in north Queensland, representing the Australian Labor Party. He was elected at the November 2007 federal election,...
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Graham Douglas Perrett (born 5 January 1966) is an Australian Labor politician, and a member of the Australian House of Representatives in the seat of Moreton. Perrett has a diploma of teaching, and a Bachelor of Laws, and has previously worked in...
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Julie Maree Collins (born 3 July 1971) is an Australian politician. She was elected in the 2007 Federal Election as an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives in the Division of Franklin in Tasmania.
Collins was born...
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Stuart Rowland Robert (born 11 December 1970) Australian politician, was elected the Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives seat of Fadden at the 2007 election on 24 November 2007, following the retirement of the previous member,...
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| x Jodie Campbell |
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Jodie Louise Campbell (born 18 January 1972) is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2007, representing the division of Bass.
Campbell was first elected to federal parliament at the...
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Gary Gray AO (born 30 April 1958), Australian politician, is the Australian Labor Party representative for the Division of Brand in Western Australia in the Australian House of Representatives.
He was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England, and...
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Brett Blair Raguse (born 24 March 1960) is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2007, representing the electorate of Forde.
Raguse was born in Queensland,...
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Scott John Morrison (born 13 May 1968) is a member of the Australian House of Representatives, and is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. He represents the Division of Cook, an electorate in the southern suburbs of Sydney, which include...
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Michael Stuart "Mike" Symon (born 21 February 1965), Australian politician, was elected as the new Australian Labor Party member for the federal seat of Deakin in the Australian House of Representatives at the 2007 federal election. He was...
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| x Thomas White |
Sir Thomas Walter White KBE DFC (26 April 1888 – 13 October 1957) was an Australian politician.
White was born at Hotham, North Melbourne, Victoria and educated at Moreland State School. In August 1914, he began training as an officer in the...
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Yvette Maree D'Ath (born 26 July 1970) is an Australian politician. She is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2007, representing the Division of Petrie.
D'Ath won the seat of Petrie for the Labor Party...
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| x Robert Best |
Sir Robert Wallace Best KCMG (18 June 1856 – 27 March 1946) was an Australian politician.
Best was born in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood and educated at Templeton's school, Fitzroy. He left school at 13 and became a clerk in a printing office...
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| x George Dankel |
George Dankel (6 March 1864 – 31 May 1926) was one of the first members of the Australian House of Representatives that was not of Anglo-Celtic origin. Being born in Germany, and the spread of World War I, it is understandable he chose to retire in...
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| x Allan Guy |
James Allan Guy, CBE (30 November 1890 – 16 December 1979) was an Australian politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in both the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Federal House of Representatives, before leaving to represent the...
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| x Walter Nairn |
Walter Maxwell Nairn (1878 – 12 December 1958) was a Nationalist and United Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1929 to 1943, representing the Division of Perth, Western Australia. He was with the Nationalist Party from...
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| x James Fowler |
James Mackinnon Fowler (20 June 1863 – 3 November 1940) was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1901 to 1922.
Fowler was born in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, Scotland and educated at local schools and the Glasgow Athenaeum. He...
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| x Malcolm Cameron |
Malcolm Duncan Cameron (12 July 1873 – 1 March 1935) was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1922 to 1934. From 1922 to 1925 he was a member of the Liberal Party, from 1925 to 1931 he was a member for the Nationalist Party of...
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| x John Livingston |
John Livingston (19 September 1857 – 4 September 1935) was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1906 to 1922.
Livingston was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia and educated privately at the family home of Curratum. He worked...
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| x Reginald Blundell |
Reginald Pole Blundell (4 February 1871 – 9 August 1945) was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1907 to 1918 and the Australian House of Representatives from 1919 to 1922.
Blundell was born in the Adelaide suburb of Norwood and...
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| x George Wise |
George Henry Wise (1 July 1853 – 31 July 1950) was an Australian politician and solicitor.
Wise was born in Melbourne and educated at Scotch College from five-years of age to he matriculated in 1868. He became an articled clerk and was admitted to...
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| x Agar Wynne |
Agar Wynne (15 July 1850 – 12 May 1934) was an Australian politician.
Wynne was born in London, but his family emigrated to Australia when he was a child. He educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and enrolled in an articled clerk's...
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| x Richard Foster |
Richard Witty Foster (20 August 1856 – 5 January 1932) was an Australian politician. Foster was born in Goodmanham, Pocklington, Yorkshire, England and educated at Prospect House, Tockwith and apprenticed to a draper. He emigrated to South Australia...
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| x Wendy Fatin |
Wendy Frances Fatin (born 10 April 1941), Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from Western Australia representing the Australian Labor Party in the Divisions of Canning (1983–1984) and Brand (1984–1996)....
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| x Josiah Thomas |
Josiah Thomas (28 April 1863 – 5 February 1933) was an Australian miner and politician.
Thomas was born in Camborne, Cornwall, England and went to Mexico as a child with his father and later worked in mines in Cornwall. He travelled to Australia in...
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Jason Dean Clare (born 22 March 1972) is the Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Blaxland in the western suburbs of Sydney. He won election in the 2007 Australian federal election.
Clare was born...
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| x Eric Harrison |
Sir Eric John Harrison KCMG KCVO (7 September 1892 – 26 September 1974) was an Australian politician who became the first Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Harrison was born in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills and educated at Crown...
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| x John Cramer |
Sir John Oscar Cramer (18 February 1896 – 18 May 1994) was an Australian politician, representing the Liberal Party of Australia, of which he was a founding member.
In 1922 he married Mary Therese (maiden name and date of birth unknown), who in 1939...
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| x Thomas Ewing |
Sir Thomas Thomson Ewing KCMG (9 October 1856 – 15 September 1920) was an Australian politician, born at Pitt Town, New South Wales to clergyman Thomas Campbell Ewing and Elizabeth, nee Thomson. Despite an intention to study for the Bar, he joined a...
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| x William Webster |
William Webster (7 June 1860 – 3 October 1936) was an Australian politician. Born in Everton, Lancashire in England, he was the son of John Webster, a labourer, and Elizabeth, nee Poynton. Leaving school at 13, Webster migrated to New South Wales in...
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| x Vince Martin |
Vincent Joseph Martin (14 May 1920 – 10 March 2001) was an Australian politician, the son of Joe and Elsie Martin. He attended Marist Brothers Darlinghurst, leaving school at age 14½ and entering the State and then Commonwealth public service....
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Michael Joseph "Mike" Kelly, AM (born 23 February 1960), is an Australian politician, elected to the Australian House of Representatives as member for the Division of Eden-Monaro, New South Wales for the Australian Labor Party at the 2007 federal...
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Nicholas David "Nick" Champion (born 27 February 1972 in Kapunda, South Australia), is the ALP Member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the electorate of Wakefield. He won the seat at the 2007 Australian federal election,...
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| x Neal Blewett |
Neal Blewett, AC (born 24 October 1933), Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Bonython, South Australia from 1977 to 1994.
Born in Launceston, Tasmania,...
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Damian Francis Hale (born 28 December 1969, Ipswich, Queensland) is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Solomon since the 2007 federal election. He moved to the Northern Territory...
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