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A rating is the evaluation or assessment of something, in terms of quality (as with a critic rating a novel), quantity (as with an athlete being rated by his or her statistics), or some combination of both.

Rating may also refer to:

• Credit rating, estimating the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation or country
• Fire-resistance rating, the duration for a passive fire protection to withstand a standard fire resistance test
• Naval rating, an enlisted member of a country's Navy not conferred by commission or warrant
• Performance Rating, in computing, used by AMD
• Ranally city rating, a tool used to classify U.S. cities based on economic function
• Content rating like the following:

• Web content voting, a system where users rate Web content
• Rating site, website that allows rating
• Reputation system, a score for a set of objects within the community based on a collection of opinions
• Telecommunications rating, the calculated cost of a phone call
• United States presidential approval rating, a polling term which reflects the approval of the President of the United States

Entertainment[link]

• Elo rating system, a rating system used in chess and in other sports and games
• Nielsen ratings, United States television viewership ratings
• Motion picture rating, categorizes films according to their suitability for adults and children
• Sports rating, analyzes the results of sports competitions
• Television content rating, categorizes TV shows based on suitability for audiences
• Video game content rating, categorizes video games based on suitability for players

Petroleum[link]

• Cetane number
• Octane rating

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Rating"
• All pages with titles containing "Rating"
• Rate (disambiguation)
• Audience measurement
• Grade (education)
• Star (classification)
• Likert scale
• Parental Advisory

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The Honourable Joe Hockey BA, LLB, MP
Shadow Treasurer
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 February 2009
Leader	Malcolm Turnbull Tony Abbott
Preceded by	Julie Bishop
Manager of Opposition Business in the House of Representatives
In office 6 December 2007 – 16 February 2009
Leader	Brendan Nelson Malcolm Turnbull
Preceded by	Anthony Albanese
Succeeded by	Christopher Pyne
Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation
In office 22 September 2008 – 16 February 2009
Leader	Malcolm Turnbull
Preceded by	Peter Dutton
Succeeded by	Helen Coonan
Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing
In office 6 December 2007 – 22 September 2008
Leader	Brendan Nelson Malcolm Turnbull
Preceded by	Nicola Roxon
Succeeded by	Peter Dutton
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
In office 30 January 2007 – 3 December 2007
Prime Minister	John Howard
Preceded by	Kevin Andrews
Succeeded by	Julia Gillard
Minister for Human Services
In office 26 October 2004 – 30 January 2007
Prime Minister	John Howard
Preceded by	Jocelyn Newman
Succeeded by	Ian Campbell
Member of the Australian Parliament for North Sydney
Incumbent
Assumed office March 1996
Preceded by	E C (Ted) Mack
Personal details
Born	(1965-08-02) 2 August 1965 (age 46) North Sydney, New South Wales
Political party	Liberal Party of Australia
Spouse(s)	Melissa Babbage[1]
Alma mater	St John's College, University of Sydney
Religion	Roman Catholic

Joseph Benedict "Joe" Hockey (born 2 August 1965), is an Australian politician and member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of North Sydney for the Liberal Party of Australia since 1996.

Hockey was a Minister in the Howard Government and is currently the Shadow Treasurer under Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in the Liberal/National Coalition.

Early life and career[link]

Hockey was born in North Sydney as the youngest of four children. His father, Richard Hockey was born in Bethlehem (then in the British Mandate of Palestine) and migrated to Australia in 1948. Hockey is of Armenian and Palestinian background and the family name was originally Hokeidonian.^[2][3] Hockey attended St Aloysius' College in Milson's Point and the University of Sydney, residing at St John's College, where he graduated with degrees in Arts and Law. While at university he was President of the Student Representative Council.^[4] He was a banking and finance lawyer, and Director of Policy to the Premier of New South Wales, before entering politics.

Political career[link]

Joe Hockey in a press conference on the ground at Telstra Dome, Melbourne.

Hockey was Minister for Financial Services and Regulation 1998–2001 and Minister for Small Business and Tourism 2001–04. With the return of the Howard Government in 2004, Hockey was appointed Minister for Human Services and was elevated to the Cabinet in January 2007, when appointed Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.

Hockey regularly appeared on the Seven Network's morning program Sunrise in the 'Big Guns of Politics' section debating Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd until the arrangement was mutually terminated on 16 April 2007, following controversy over plans to stage a pre-dawn Anzac Day service in Vietnam.^[5][6]

In December 2007, Joe Hockey was made Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing, and Manager of Opposition Business in the House. In September 2008 he became Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation. Hockey became Shadow Treasurer in February 2009 when Julie Bishop stepped down from the portfolio.^[7]

Hockey's popularity among voters grew under the leadership of Malcolm Turnbull, and in October 2009 polls showed him as the preferred liberal leader. However Hockey announced that he had no intentions to challenge for the leadership.^[8]

On 9 November 2009, Hockey gave a speech, In Defence of God, at the Sydney Institute. "Australia has embraced religious diversity. It must always remain so, and as a Member of Parliament I am a custodian of that principle of tolerance. That is why it is disturbing to hear people rail against Muslims and Jews, or Pentecostals and Catholics. Australia must continue, without fear, to embrace diversity of faith provided that those gods are loving, compassionate and just."^[9][10]

On 1 December 2009, Hockey chose to include his candidacy in a party room ballot to determine the leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia. The ballot was between Hockey, Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott. Hockey was eliminated in the first round of the ballot, with the eventuating winner being Tony Abbott. Following the change of leadership, Hockey remained Shadow Treasurer.

Hockey told ABC TV's Q&A audience on 7 March 2011 that corporate Australia had fallen behind in female boardroom representation, and if companies failed to meet a reasonable target within a period of time, then "more punitive measures" needed to be taken by parliament.^[11] He later said that, "quotas must be a last resort".^[12]

Personal life[link]

Hockey is married to investment banker Melissa Babbage and has three children, Xavier, Adelaide and Ignatius.^[13] Hockey has ventured the Kokoda Track^[14] and has climbed Mt Kilimanjaro to raise funds for medical equipment.^[15] In February 2010, Hockey appeared on the television program Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation where he was involved in a segment that required him to hold up a tutu and wave a magic wand^[16] which attracted criticism from Treasurer Wayne Swan.^[17] Hockey was the first Australian politician invited on to the show.^[18] He plays rugby union and is a loosehead prop.

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External links[link]

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• Official website

Five or 5 Star(s) or star(s) may refer to:

• Five-star rank, a senior military rank
• A grading of a hotel, restaurant, movie, TV show, theatre or musical work or performance - see star (classification)
• Five Star (film), South Indian Tamil film
• Five Star Production, a Thai film production company
• Five Star Final, 1931 film
• The Five Star Stories or Five Star Monogatari, manga series and 1989 film
• Five Star Theater, American 1930s radio series
• Five Star Jubilee, a 1961 NBC-TV program
• Five Star Jet Center, and Five Star Flight Academy, at Barnes Municipal Airport, Westfield, MA, USA
• Five Star Publishing, fiction imprint of Gale (Cengage)
• Five Star Bus Company, Inc, in the Philippines
• 5 Star (supermarkets), an Australian group, competitors of IGA (Australian supermarket group)
• UEFA elite stadiums (known as 5 star stadiums until 2006), football stadiums graded on suitability to host major matches
• Five-starred red flag or Five-star red flag, the Flag of the People's Republic of China
• Five Star, a triangular shaped and powerful firecracker manufactured in the Philippines
• Five star energy rating system, a No load power#Policies to reduce no load power for mobile phone chargers
• Five Star Supermarket (Ireland), a former supermarket chain in Ireland
• 5*, a UK TV channel, sister channel of Channel 5

Albums, EPs, music DVDs & songs[link]

• Five-star (album), 2007 greatest hits album by Japanese singer Yuki Isoya
• Five Star (album), 1990 eponymous album by the British group Five Star
• 5 Star (song), by rapper Yo Gotti

Bands[link]

• Five Star, a British pop group from Romford, Essex
• Five Stars (Bulgarian group), includes Svetlozar Hristov, singer about Torbalan
• The Five Stars, a Samoan musical group

See also[link]

• Five-pointed star
• All pages beginning with "Five Star"
• All pages beginning with "Five star"
• All pages beginning with "5 Star"
• All pages beginning with "5 star"
• For other numbers of stars, see Category:Star ranking systems.

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