Julia Eileen Gillard is the 27th and current Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of the Australian Labor Party since 24 June 2010. She is the first woman to hold either office. Gillard was born in Barry, Wales, and migrated with her family to Adelaide, South Australia, ... Explore this topic

Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and the Leader of the Labor Party from 2006 to 2010. Rudd was born in Queensland and grew up on a dairy farm. He joined the Australian Labor Party at the age of 15 and... Explore this topic

The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has governed the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia. In the state and territory parliaments, Labor ... Explore this topic

The Politics of Australia take place within the framework of a federal constitutional parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy. Australians elect parliamentarians to the federal Parliament of Australia, a bicameral body which incorporates elements of the fused execu... Explore this topic

The Prime Minister of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and head of government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful political office in Australi... Explore this topic

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Tim... Explore this topic

Mark Victor Arbib is a former Australian politician and trade unionist, who was a Labor member of the Australian Senate from July 2008 to 5 March 2012, representing the state of New South Wales. He was the Australian Labor Party State Secretary of the New South Wales branch fr... Explore this topic

Christopher Patrick "Chris" Hayes, Australian Labor Party politician, was elected to the Australian House of Representatives on 19 March 2005 in a by-election for the Division of Werriwa, New South Wales, succeeding former party leader Mark Latham. Hayes was educated at De La ... Explore this topic

Simon Findlay Crean is an Australian politician and former trade unionist. He was President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions 1985–1990. He was leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition at the Federal level from November 2001 to December 2003. H... Explore this topic

Kelvin John Thomson is an Australian politician. Since March 1996 Thomson has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Wills in Victoria. In February 2013, Thomson was appointed the Parliamentary Secretary f... Explore this topic