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.

Neumann was the Labor candidate for Blair at the 2004 federal election, and was heavily defeated by sitting Liberal member Cameron Thompson. Blair was considered a safe Liberal seat at the time.^[1]

Neumann defeated Thompson at his second attempt in 2007. He was aided by two factors. Firstly, a redistribution of the electoral boundaries, finalised in 2006, pushed Blair further into Ipswich, roughly halving Thompson's majority.^[2] Secondly, there was a big Labor resurgence across the country at the 2007 federal election under the leadership of Kevin Rudd. This resurgence was at its greatest in Queensland; Rudd's home state.^[3]

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Alan Edward Tudge (born 24 February 1971), an Australian politician, is a member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Aston representing the Liberal Party of Australia.^[1] He succeeded Liberal MP Chris Pearce, who retired from politics, at the 2010 federal election.

Early years and background[link]

Tudge was educated at Haileybury College, Keysborough before attending the University of Melbourne, where he completed a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts; he subsequently completed a Masters of Business Administration at Harvard University. Following a period as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group, he became an adviser on Education and Foreign Affairs to the Howard Government; he subsequently ran his own policy advisory firm.^[2]

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The Honourable Bill Shorten MP
Member of the Australian Parliament for Maribyrnong
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 December 2007
Preceded by	Robert Sercombe
Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 September 2010
Prime Minister	Julia Gillard
Preceded by	Chris Bowen
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 December 2011
Preceded by	Chris Evans
Personal details
Born	(1967-05-12) 12 May 1967 (age 45) Melbourne
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Spouse(s)	Chloe Shorten
Residence	Moonee Ponds, Victoria
Alma mater	Monash University
Profession	Trade unionist
Website	www.billshorten.com.au

William Richard "Bill" Shorten (born 12 May 1967) is an Australian politician, the Member for Maribyrnong in the Australian Parliament, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation.^[1] He was Assistant Treasurer in the first Gillard Ministry and the Parliamentary Secretary for Disability and Children's Services in the Rudd/Gillard Government 2007–2010. He is a former Victorian State President of the Australian Labor Party, a long-time member of the right-wing Labor Unity faction, and a former Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU).

Early career[link]

Bill Shorten was born in Melbourne, where his father was a waterside worker and union official. His mother was a lawyer and university academic. He was educated at Xavier College (a Roman Catholic school) and Monash University, where he graduated in arts and law. During his time at Monash, Shorten was a founding member of Young Labor Network, a right wing Labor youth caucus. He also holds an MBA from the Melbourne Business School, an unusual qualification for a trade union official.

Shorten began working in the labour movement while still a student, working part-time for federal Labor Minister Gareth Evans and later Neil Pope, a minister in the Labor state government of John Cain. After graduating he worked for 18 months as a lawyer for the firm of Maurice Blackburn Cashman, a firm which generates a large portion of its income representing trade unions.

Union leader[link]

In 1994, Shorten began his union career as a trainee organiser under the ACTU's Organising Works program^[2] at the AWU, before being elected Victorian State Secretary in 1998. Before taking this post, Shorten had decided to enter Victorian state politics, and was elected unopposed as the Labor candidate for the state seat of Melton for the 1999 state election, but gave this up to pursue his career with the union. Shorten was responsible for reforming the union's structure and halting the long-term decline in its membership.

Shorten was elected as the AWU's National Secretary in 2001, and was re-elected in 2005. He resigned as Victorian State Secretary of the AWU in August 2006. As a trade union official with a tertiary education, he reflects the changing composition of the AWU's membership, and of the trade union movement.

Shorten was an active member of the Labor Party; he was a member of the party's National Executive until 2011, as well as the Administrative Committee of the Victorian Branch. He is a former director of the Superannuation Trust of Australia (now Australian Super), and the Victorian Funds Management Corporation. From December 2005 until May 2008 he was the Victorian State President of the Labor Party. He was also a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Executive. Until early 2006, he was a board member of GetUp.org.au

During his time as AWU National Secretary, Shorten was the interim chief executive of the Australian Netball Players Association (ANPA), following an alliance between the AWU and ANPA in 2005.^[3] Shorten also served on the advisory board of the Australian Cricketers' Association.^[4]

Shorten resigned as AWU National Secretary and his other board positions on 26 November 2007 in order to take his seat in federal parliament.

Politics[link]

During 2005 there was increasing speculation that Shorten intended entering federal politics at the next election. In February 2006 he announced that he would seek endorsement for the safe Labor seat of Maribyrnong, where the sitting Labor member, Bob Sercombe, was supported by the Left faction. The AWU is a pillar of the right-wing Labor Unity faction of the party, which has a majority in the Victorian Branch of the party.

The political correspondent of The Age, Misha Schubert, wrote, "The ascendancy of the articulate, clever and impressively connected challenger, routinely touted as a future prime minister, seems all but assured." She pointed out that, as well as his base in the right-wing unions, Shorten would be supported by some unions normally associated with the left, such as the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union.^[5]

Justifying his challenge to a sitting member and serving shadow minister, Shorten said: "We haven't won a federal election since 1993. When your footy team loses four consecutive grand finals, you renew the team."^[5] On 28 February Sercombe withdrew his candidacy, a few days before the local vote of ALP members in which Shorten was expected to poll very strongly. As a result Shorten was pre-selected unopposed.

During the Beaconsfield mine collapse, Shorten, in his role as National Secretary of the AWU, the union representing the miners, played a prominent role as negotiator and commentator on developments in the immediate aftermath and the ensuing rescue operations. The mine rescue operations drew mass national media coverage, and raised Shorten's political profile ahead of the 2007 election.^[6][7]

At the election on 24 November 2007, Bill Shorten was elected to the House of Representatives as the Labor Member for Maribyrnong. It was speculated that with Shorten's high public profile and general popularity within the Labor Party, he might be given a front-bench portfolio; however, when asked about the possibility, Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd said that he believed parliamentary experience was essential when designating front-bench portfolios. On 29 November Rudd announced that Shorten would become the Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children's Services.^[8]

On 3 December 2007 Bill Shorten was sworn in as the Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children's Services.^[9] On 25 June 2010, Shorten was one of the main factional leaders involved in the replacement of Kevin Rudd as leader of the Labor Party and Prime Minister for Julia Gillard.^[10] Following the election there was speculation that Shorten might seek to topple Prime Minister Gillard from her position as ALP leader;^[11] former Labor party leaders Bob Hawke and Kim Beazley had previously endorsed Shorten as a potential Labor leader.^[12]

On 12 December 2011 Bill Shorten was promoted to Cabinet with the Workplace Relations Portfolio.^[13]

Personal[link]

Bill Shorten is married to Chloe Bryce, the daughter of the Governor-General of Australia Quentin Bryce.^[14][15][16] Shorten is one of a number of current Ministers that has a young family - his daughter Clementine,^[17] and Rupert and Georgette Parkin (the son and daughter of Chloe Bryce).^[18] In May 2012, the Shortens issued a public appeal requesting the cessation of an unspecified smear campaign about their marriage; Shorten was quoted by The Australian saying "personal lives and families should be off limits".^[19]

Bill Shorten was previously married to Debbie Beale, daughter of Liberal Party politician Julian Beale and granddaughter of politician and Ambassador to the United States Sir Howard Beale. Before marriage he was living with Nicola Roxon, present Attorney-General.^{[citation needed][20]}

He has a twin brother, named Rob.

References[link]

External links[link]

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Anthony Albanese
Anthony Albanese hosting a public forum in his electorate in 2011
Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 December 2007
Prime Minister	Kevin Rudd Julia Gillard
Preceded by	Mark Vaile
Leader of the House
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 December 2007
Preceded by	Tony Abbott
Member of the Australian Parliament for Grayndler
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 March 1996
Preceded by	Jeannette McHugh
Majority	4.2%
Personal details
Born	(1963-03-02) 2 March 1963 (age 49) Sydney, New South Wales
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Spouse(s)	Carmel Tebbutt
Religion	Non Practising Roman Catholic [1]
Website	AnthonyAlbanese.com.au

Anthony Norman Albanese (born 2 March 1963), is an Australian politician who serves as Minister for Infrastructure and Transport in the Second Gillard Ministry. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Grayndler, New South Wales. He has been Leader of the House since 2007.

Education and early career[link]

Albanese was educated at St Mary's Cathedral College, an independent Catholic boys' school in Sydney, and at the University of Sydney, which awarded him a Bachelor's degree in economics.^[2]

Albanese was employed by the Commonwealth Bank before entering politics.^[3]

Political career[link]

Albanese was research officer to the Minister for Local Government and Administrative Services, Tom Uren, (1985–89), Assistant General Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party (1989–95), and senior policy adviser to the Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr (1995–96).

Anthony Albanese at Mardi Gras 2003

Following his entry in to parliament in 1996, Albanese was promoted to the Opposition Shadow Ministry in 1998. He was Shadow Minister for Environment and Heritage in 2004–05. In June 2005 he became Shadow Minister for Environment and Heritage, Shadow Minister for Water, and Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the House. In December 2006 he was appointed Shadow Minister for Water and Infrastructure.

In the 2007 Federal election in which Labor came to power, Albanese was re-elected to the seat of Grayndler with a 3.72% swing toward the Labor Party.^[4] As part of the Rudd Ministry, it was announced that Albanese would become the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. The new Ministry was sworn in at Government House on 3 December.

During October 2009 The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Albanese, a long-standing fan and former board member of South Sydney Rabbitohs, had opposed an attempt to appoint the former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard to a senior position in the NRL. Albanese admitted he had phoned the NRL chief executive, David Gallop, as well as other league officials, to advise them against the idea. He then implored officials at Souths to help stop the suggestion from gaining momentum.^[5]

Albanese is from the left Labor faction.

In January 2012, Albanese plagiarised several lines from the 1995 film The American President in a speech at the National Press Club. His address was caught on camera by Bryan Loughnane. The video was subsequently released.^[6]

In the midst of the February 2012 leadership spill between Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Albanese offered his resignation as Leader of the House to Julia Gillard, after announcing he would vote for Kevin Rudd in the caucus leadership ballot. Minutes after he announced his offer, the Prime Minister refused his resignation at a live press conference.

Personal life[link]

Albanese is married to Carmel Tebbutt,^[7] former Deputy Premier of New South Wales and the member for the state electoral district of Marrickville, which lies within the borders of Grayndler. They have one son. Albanese describes himself as a "non-practicising Catholic." ^[8] He describes his ethnicity as "half Italian and half Irish".^[9]

See also[link]

• First Rudd Ministry

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Search or browse Hansard for Anthony Albanese at OpenAustralia.org
• Photo gallery
• Personal page, Australian Parliament website

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Michaelia Clare Cash (born 19 July 1970) is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Western Australia.

Cash was first elected to parliament at the 2007 federal election. She contested the election as the number three candidate of the Liberal Senate ticket in Western Australia.

Since entering Federal Parliament Cash has been elected to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties and the Regulations and Ordinances Committee. In September 2010 Cash was made the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Status of Women and the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration.

Cash was born in the Perth suburb of Subiaco. In the 1990s she was a staffer to former Liberal senator Ross Lightfoot, who she later succeeded in the Senate.^[1]

Cash is a long-standing member of the Liberal Party. She was an executive member of the Curtin University Young Liberals from 1988 to 1990 and then the Western Australian Young Liberal Movement, where she held numerous positions including state vice-president.

She is a member of the state council and was the president of the Moore Division. She also served on the party's state executive.

Before becoming a senator for Western Australia, Cash was a senior lawyer with the national law firm Freehills, which she joined in 1999 as an articled clerk. She practised in all areas of employment and industrial law including industrial relations, employee relations, occupational health and safety, equal opportunity, executive employment and unfair dismissal.^{[citation needed]}

Cash holds a Bachelor of Arts with a triple major in public relations, politics and journalism from Curtin University in Perth and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Western Australia. She went on to achieve honours in law at the University of London.

She is married to Richard Price, a barrister and the brother of late political journalist Matt Price. She is the daughter of Western Australian state MP George Cash.^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Parliamentary biography
• Senator Cash's first speech

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