Australian Labor Party: Politicians in this party



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Peter Garrett

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...

Penny Wong

Penelope "Penny" Ying-yen Wong (traditional Chinese: 黃英賢; simplified Chinese: 黄英贤; pinyin: Huáng Yīngxián; born 5 November 1968), Australian Labor Party politician, is the current and first Australian Minister for Climate Change and Water. She has...

Kevin Rudd

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...

Mike Rann

Michael David Rann (born 5 January 1953), Australian politician, is the 44th Premier of South Australia, serving since the 2002 election. He has been the parliamentary leader of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since...

Bob Hawke

Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke, AC (born 9 December 1929) was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister. After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered politics at...

Gough Whitlam

Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (pronounced /ˈɡɒf/ goff), is a former Australian politician, representing the New South Wales seat of Werriwa, and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. A member of the Australian...

Paul Keating

Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1991 to 1996. He came to prominence as the reformist treasurer in the Hawke government from 1983. After he became prime minister in 1991 he led the Labor...

Joseph Lyons

Joseph Aloysius Lyons, CH (15 September 1879 – 7 April 1939) was an Australian politician. He was Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in...

Ben Chifley

Joseph Benedict Chifley (pronounced /ˈtʃɪfli/; 22 September 1885 – 13 June 1951), Australian politician and 16th Prime Minister of Australia, was one of Australia's most influential Prime Ministers. Among his government's accomplishments were the...

Andrew Fisher

Andrew Fisher (29 August 1862 – 22 October 1928) was an Australian politician who served as Prime Minister on three separate occasions. Fisher's 1910-13 ministry completed a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist Alfred...

Jack Lang

John Thomas Lang (21 December 1876 – 27 September 1975), usually referred to as J. T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella," was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms...

Billy Hughes

William Morris Hughes, CH, KC (25 September 1862 – 28 October 1952), Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, the longest serving member of the Australian Parliament, and one of the most colourful figures in Australian...

Chris Watson

John Christian Watson (9 April 1867 – 18 November 1941), commonly known as Chris Watson, Australian politician, was the third Prime Minister of Australia. He was the first prime minister from the Australian Labour Party (the spelling of 'Labour' was...

John Curtin

John Joseph Curtin (8 January 1885 – 5 July 1945), Australian politician and 14th Prime Minister of Australia, led Australia when the Australian mainland came under direct military threat during the Japanese advance in World War II. He is widely...

Frank Forde

Francis Michael Forde (18 July 1890 – 28 January 1983) was an Australian politician and the 15th Prime Minister of Australia. He was the shortest serving Prime Minister in Australia's history, being in office for a mere 8 days. Born at Mitchell,...

James Scullin

James Henry Scullin (18 September 1876 – 28 January 1953), Australian Labor politician and ninth Prime Minister of Australia. Two days after he was sworn in as Prime Minister, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the beginning of the...

Joseph Cook

Sir Joseph Cook, GCMG (7 December 1860 – 30 July 1947) was an Australian politician and sixth Prime Minister of Australia. Cook was born as Joseph Cooke in Silverdale, a small mining town near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. He had...

Mathew Charlton

Matthew Charlton (15 March 1866 – 8 December 1948) was an Australian Labor Party politician. Charlton was born at Linton in rural Victoria but moved to Lambton, New South Wales at the age of five. He worked as a coal miner after only a primary...

Don Dunstan

Donald Allan Dunstan, AC, QC (21 September 1926 – 6 February 1999) was a South Australian politician. He entered politics as the Member for Norwood in 1953, became state Labor leader in 1967, and was Premier of South Australia between June 1967 and...

Barrie Unsworth

Barrie John Unsworth (born 16 April 1934) is an Australian politician. He served as the 36th Premier of New South Wales from July 1986 to March 1988 as leader of the Australian Labor Party and local member for the Electoral district of Rockdale....

John Watkins

John Arthur Watkins (born 7 December 1955) is a former Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, holding the seat of Ryde from 1999 to 2008. He was originally elected to the Assembly in 1995 when he won the...

Morris Iemma

Morris Iemma (pronounced /ˈjɛmə/) (born 21 July 1961), was an Australian politician and 40th Premier of New South Wales, succeeding Bob Carr after he resigned on 3 August 2005. Iemma led the Australian Labor Party to victory in the 2007 election...

Bob Debus

Robert John "Bob" Debus (born 16 September 1943) is an Australian Labor politician. Before his retirement from the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the 2007 state election, he held the portfolios of Attorney-General, Minister for the...

Steven Chaytor

Steven John Chaytor (born 19 February 1976) is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2005 to 2007, representing the southwest Sydney electorate of Macquarie Fields. Chaytor...

Cherie Burton

Cherie Ann Burton (born 1968) is an Australian politician, elected as an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Burton was born in Paddington, New South Wales and brought up in Minto. She graduated from Narrabeen...

James Simpson

James Simpson was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Simpson was Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland and educated at Dykehead public school. He started work at the age of fourteen as a coal miner. He...

Bob Carr

Robert John Carr (born 28 September 1947), Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales from 4 April 1995 to 3 August 2005. He holds the record for the longest continuous service as Premier of New South Wales. Only Sir Henry Parkes has...

Jeff Hunter

Jeffery (Jeff) Hunter (born 9 December 1959) is a retired Australian politician. He was the Member of Parliament for the electorate of Lake Macquarie in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 25 May 1991 until 24 March 2007. He was defeated...

Merv Hunter

Mervyn (Merv) Leslie Hunter (Born: February 23, 1926) is an Australian politician. He was the state Member of Parliament for the electorate of Lake Macquarie representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly...

Noreen Hay

Noreen Hay (born c. 1951) is an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. She has represented Wollongong for the Australian Labor Party since 2003. Hay was born in London into a working class family of practicing...

Julia Gillard

Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian politician and the current Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, the fourteenth person and the first woman to hold this position. She is also the deputy leader of the federal Australian...

Jodie Campbell

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...

Lindsay Tanner

Lindsay James Tanner (born 24 April 1956) is an Australian politician who is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Melbourne, Victoria, for the Australian Labor Party, having first won the seat at the 1993...

Henry Daglish

Henry Daglish (18 November 1866 – 16 August 1920) was the sixth Premier of Western Australia and the state's first Labor Premier. Henry Daglish was born in Ballarat West, Victoria on 18 November 1866. He was educated in Geelong, and attended...

Clare Martin

Clare Majella Martin (born 15 June 1952) is a former Australian politician. She is the current CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS). A former journalist, she was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in a shock by...

John Cain II

John Cain (born 26 April 1931), Australian Labor Party politician, was the 41st Premier of Victoria, holding office from 1982 to 1990. Cain was born in Melbourne, the son of John Cain, leader of the Labor Party in Victoria from 1937 to 1957 and...

Geoff Gallop

Geoffrey Ian Gallop, AC (born 27 September 1951) is an Australian academic and former politician. He was the Premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006. Gallop was born in Geraldton and joined the Australian Labor Party in 1971. After studying...

Simon Crean

Simon Findlay Crean (born 26 February 1949) is an Australian politician, and current Minister for Trade in the Australian Federal Government. He was leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition at the Federal level, from...

Peter Beattie

Peter Douglas Beattie (born 18 November 1952), Australian politician, was the 36th Premier of the Australian state of Queensland for nine years and leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state for eleven and a half years. His sweeping...

Carmen Lawrence

Carmen Mary Lawrence (born 2 March 1948), is a former Australian politician; a former Premier of Western Australia and the first woman to become Premier of a State of the Commonwealth of Australia. After leaving the State Parliament of Western...

Frank Tudor

Francis Gwynne "Frank" Tudor (29 January 1866 — 10 January 1922) was an Australian-born felt hatter and politician. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1916 to 1921. Tudor was born to John Llewellyn Tudor, a ballastman, and Ellen...

Jim Bacon

James Alexander Bacon, AC (15 May 1950 – 20 June 2004) was Premier of Tasmania from 1998 to 2004. Bacon was born in Melbourne; his father Frank, a doctor, died when his son was twelve, leaving him to be raised by his mother Joan. He was educated at...

Wayne Goss

Wayne Keith Goss (born 26 February 1951) was Premier of Queensland from 7 December 1989 until 19 February 1996. He was born at Mundubbera, Queensland and educated at Inala High School and the University of Queensland (LLB). He worked as a solicitor...

Jenny Macklin

Jennifer Louise Macklin (born 29 December 1953), is an Australian politician. She is Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in the Rudd Government. She has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives...

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Norman Albanese (born 2 March 1963), Australian politician, and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since...

Arch Bevis

Archibald Ronald "Arch" Bevis (born 10 April 1955), Australian politician, has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1990, representing the Division of Brisbane, Queensland. He was born in Brisbane, and educated at...

Nicola Roxon

Nicola Louise Roxon (born 1 April 1967) is an Australian politician, and is the Minister for Health and Ageing. She has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1998, representing the Division of Gellibrand, in the inner...

Jon Stanhope

Jonathon Ronald Stanhope (born 29 April 1951) is the current, and longest serving, Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, representing the Australian Labor Party. He is the only ACT Chief Minister to have governed with a majority in the...

Craig Emerson

Craig Anthony Emerson (born 15 November 1954) is an Australian politician who has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the seat of Rankin, Queensland. He was born in...

Martin Ferguson

Martin John Ferguson AM (born 12 December 1953), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Batman, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, New...

Joel Fitzgibbon

Joel Andrew Fitzgibbon (born 16 January 1962) is an Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Hunter in New South Wales. From December 2007 to...

Michael Hatton

Michael John Hatton (b. 28 August 1951, Sydney) was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from June 1996 to November 2007, representing the Division of Blaxland, New South Wales. He was educated at the...

Catherine King

Catherine Fiona King (born 2 June 1966), Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Ballarat, Victoria for the Australian Labor Party. King was the only Labor...

Daryl Melham

Daryl Melham (born 27 November 1954), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing the Division of Banks, New South Wales. He was born in Sydney, New South...

Frank Mossfield

Frank William Mossfield AM (born 4 June 1935) is a former Australian politician who was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 to October 2004, representing the Division of Greenway, New South...

Paul Lennon

Paul Anthony Lennon (born 8 October 1955) is an Australian Labor Party politician. He was Premier of Tasmania from 21 March 2004 until his resignation on 26 May 2008. He was member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the seat of Franklin from...

Des Corcoran

James Desmond "Des" Corcoran AO (8 November 1928 – 3 January 2004) was an Australian politician. He was the 37th Premier of South Australia, serving between 15 February 1979 and 18 September 1979. Born in Millicent, South Australia, Corcoran joined...