Tony abbott was the 28th prime minister for Australia, and was in office from September 18, 2013 to September 15, 2015. Childhood & Early Life
In 1960 his family came from london to live in australia. Tony Abbott got into school early for his education at primary school at St Aloysius’ College, Sydney and finished his secondary education at St. Ignatius’ College, Sydney for secondary school.
He graduated from the Bachelor of Economics in 1979.
He was a president of the Student Representative Council while he resided at St John’s College. He also attended The Queen’s College, Oxford, from where he finished Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and business in 1983.soon after, he also completed his Masters of Arts in 1989.
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It was abbotts duty As a parliamentary secretary, to look for installation of the Green Corps schedule.
Tony Abbott was boosted to cabinet in 1998 and served as Minister for Employment Services (1998-2001), and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations (2001-03). As Minister for Employment Services, he looked after the performance of the ‘Job Network’ and also for government’s ‘Work for the Dole’ line up.
From 2003 to 2007, he served as the Minister for Health and Ageing. In 2006, he ran into argument when he opposed the idea of abortion, calling it as a murder. In 2007 selections, Tony Abbott ran as Minister for Health.
In 2009, he resigned from shadow ministerial duty in opposition against the stand taken by the Liberal Party on the Rudd Government's Emissions Trading Scheme.
On December 1, 2009, Tony Abbott beat Malcolm Turnbull by 42 votes to 41, to become the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and the Leader of the
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In 2013 elections, Tony Abbott led the Liberal/National coalition to victory over the then Labor government, led by Kevin Rudd. Tony Abbott assumed the office of Prime Minister on 18th September 2013. He was criticised for including only one woman in his cabinet.
Malcolm Turnbull, the Minister for Communications resigned on 14 September 2015 and challenged the Liberal Party leadership in leadership spill. A meeting was held and Abbott was defeated by Turnbull by 54-44 votes.
In 2016, Tony Abbott was re-elected for Liberal preselection for Division of Warringah. Since then he has criticised the stand of the party on a number of policy issues.
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When Tony Abbott was the Cabinet Minister, he carried out health care action including the Nurse Family Partnership, a plan which improved conditions for indigenous people by improving mother-child relationships. The plan was proved successful and it reduced child abuse and improved school retention rates.
After getting elected as the Prime Minister, Abbott announced a Royal Commission into trade union governance and crime in 2014. He also made changes to the Fair Work Act and ‘Repeal Day’ and got more than 10,000 ‘red tape’ management
The Labor party has recently celebrated its centenary in 1991, making it Australia’s oldest party. Labor first became a Federal Party when the former colonies of Australia federated in 1901. Separate labour parties had been established in the colonies during the formative decade of the 1890s. These parties were sponsored by the trade union movement, to help get sympathetic politicians elected to colonial parliaments. In Western Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, there were no strong and coherent labour parties until after federation. However, by 1900 strong labour parties had emerged in Queensland and New South Wales, quickly taking up a prominent role in Parliamentary politics. Australia's first labour government took office in Queensland in 1899. It lasted seven days. Although these early labour parties were strongly influenced by the trade unions, they were never confined to union membership and interests. Their earliest programs and platforms show that they sought the support of farmers, small businessmen and non-union employees including clerical and other white-collar workers. The Australian Labor Party entered federal politics at the first Commonwealth elections of 1901, when 16 Labor members were elected to the House of Representatives and eight to the Senate. They met before the first sitting of Parliament on 8 May 1901 and agreed to form a Federal Labor Party. J.C. (Chris) Watson, a Sydney printer and a former member of the NSW Parliament, was elected the first Leader of the Party.
degree in 1978. He taught at the University of Calgary from 1978 to 1983. But he hated
In the run up to the election therefore the Liberals won the working class support. It was perhaps the working class who had the biggest effect on the result of the election, this proved to be in favour of the Liberal Party.
The Canadians had become tired of Brian Mulroney and his Progressive Conservative government, so when it was announced that he would resign most Canadians were happy to see him go. However, his resignation did mean the end of the Progressive Conservatives power in Canada. Canadians unhappy with what the Progressive Conservatives had done chose to elect another party. When Brian Mulroney resigned there was, in place of a federal election, a leadership convention. The Tories just had to elect a new leader who would then become the Prime Minister.
When Australia’s 21st Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, was swept into power in December 1972 there was huge anticipation for dramatic and swift change. Australia had been under the control of a conservative liberal government for 23 consecutive years, and Whitlam’s promises if social change were eagerly anticipated. Whitlam, despite his failings as a negotiator, managed to implement a huge array of reforms and changes, many of which shaped Australia into the country it is today. However is that enough to say he succeeded? Even Whitlam today admits that he regrets doing “too much too soon”, and perhaps Whitlam’s government was a government that was too socially progressive for its time, which could perchance have been a foreshadowing of things to come for the most recent labor government of Julia Gillard which has been labeled by some as the most incompetent government since Whitlam. Gough Whitlam has had the most books written and published about him than any other Australian Prime Minister to Date. This essay will argue that Whitlam was a successful leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), who had the ability and charisma to lead Australia in an era of prosperity; he did however succumbed to a few grave errors of judgment that ultimately led to his downfall, however his ultimate goal was to transform Australia which he achieved. Whitlam’s’ errors were seen as being due to his inability take advice from senior figures on how to turn his amateur government into a competent one and his inflexible approach to dealing with the hostile senate that the Australian public gave him, and often led to his government being labeled the worst in Australian history and as a failure.
Wayne Swan 2009, ‘Budget Speech 2009-10’, Australian Government. Retrieved May 20th, 2010, from - http://www.ato.gov.au/budget/2009-10/content/speech/html/speech.htm
Did you know that the current leader of the New Democratic Party used to be a Liberal? Thomas Mulcair became the leader of the New Democratic Party after the death of Jack Layton. The New Democratic Party (NDP) is one of the major federal political parties in Canada. The NDP was formed in 1961 as the result of the merger of two different parties. There are numerous reasons why the people of Canada should vote for the NDP. Citizens of Canada should vote for the New Democratic Party because if elected, they promise to improve the environmental situation, provide better health care for Canadians, and improve the economy in Canada.
up near London and was educated at Oxford, from which he received his BA in 1962,
The Prime Minister is the Head of Government in Canada. Almost always, the Prime Minister is also the leader in the House of Commons, the assembly of ‘common’ people elected by the population to run government. Multiple steps are required to select a Prime Minister. First, there must be a vote of party members at a national convention that decide who will be their leader. If their party is already in power, or holds the majority of seats within Parliament, the chosen leader will assume the role of Prime Minister immediately. If not, the leader must lead the party through a successful election process to become Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is not elected directly by the entire population through the election. He or she is elected in an indirect manner when his or her party wins an election with the most seats in the House of Commons. The Prime Minister can lead the country for a maximum of five years before another election. However, historically and by tradition, most will call an election within four years depending on their perceived standing among the voters. If after four years, they feel that they are still held in high regard by the general public, and it is probable that they will maintain or enhance their power in government, the likelihood of calling...
After the 2011 Federal election, Gillard obtained majority government only with the support of 12 cross benchers in the Senate, and one member of the House. This was the first federal hung parliament since 1940, and only the second in Australian history. Here we see Gillard’s most admirable and distinguishing political leadership skill shine; she was a master negotiator. Both major political parties at the time had the opportunity to negotiate support for their parties in this new political makeup, however Julia was able to succeed where her opposition could not. In hindsight one could argue that this was an early sign that when the Opposition did gain power at the following election, their Leader Tony Abbott, would not be able to effectively lead.
A more recent foreign policy priority is the promotion of the nation as an active and responsible global citizen. Success in this area is measured by our response to human rights, terrorism, third world debt, and drug issues. Australia already has a well deserved international reputation because of the work of previous foreign ministers, e.g Bill Hayden and Gareth Evans on human rights.
The Prime Minister in Canada is the head of government and is appointed by the Governor General. Canada is the northern neighbor to the United States, and the Queen of England is its head of state. These powerful countries being so closely tied to Canada makes it a major player on the world stage, and gives considerable power to its Prime Ministers.There have been twenty-two Prime Ministers, with John Diefenbaker being the thirteenth, serving from 1957-1963, and Pierre Trudeau the fifteenth, who served 1968-1979 and again 1980-1984. Diefenbaker was a progressive conservative, a right-center group associated with British imperialism. Trudeau was part of the Liberal party of Canada, one that focused on individual freedom, ironic considering Trudeau was the only Prime Minister to enact the War Measures Act during peacetime. Domestically, these two Prime Ministers have done much in terms of protecting and growing a modern Canada. There are many ways these leaders' domestic policies were similar, such as helping to create an equality among Canadians, and many ways in which they had opposing policies, such as their policies regarding French-Canada.
Alfred Marshall was born in Bermondsey, a London suburb, on 26 July 1842. He died at Balliol Croft, his Cambridge home of many years, on 13 July 1924 at the age of 81. Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge from 1885 to 1908, he was the founder of the Cambridge School of Economics which rose to great eminence in the 1920s and 1930s: A.C. Pigou and J.M. Keynes, the most important figures in this development, were among his pupils. Marshall's magnum opus, the Principles of Economics was published in 1890 and went through eight editions in his lifetime. It was the most influential treatise of its era and was for many years the Bible of British economics, introducing many still-familiar concepts. Alfred Marshall is one of the most outstanding figures in the development of contemporary economics and his influence has been enormous. His most famous student, J. M. Keynes, wrote that;
Following his graduation from the University of Chicago, in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts, Samuelson attended Harvard Graduate School, where he studied under other budding economists. Samuelson completed his Master of Arts in 1936 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1941. Both before and after his graduation, Samuelson was a pre-doctoral fellow with the Social Science Research Council from 1935 to 1937, a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University from 1937 to 1940, and a Ford Foundation Research Fellow from 1958 to 1959. In addition, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, as well as a staff member at the Radiation Laboratory (Biographic...
Andrew Forrest Andrew Forrest was born John Andrew Henry Forrest, at Perth, in 1961. His great-great uncle was Sir John Forrest, the first premier of Western Australia (Burrell, 2014, p19 - 20). Forrest grew up at Minderoo Station, in the Pilbara, and he worked as a Jackaroo on the property owned by his family until 1998 (Burrell, 2014, p38 - 40). The property was sold due to debt resulting from the unyielding drought, floods and cyclones (Burrell, 2014, p66). A pivotal point in Forrest’s life was the day he bought back Minderoo Station in 2009 (Burrell, 2014, p333 - 334).