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Australian Prime Ministers
The leaders who shaped Australia's politics, from Federation to the present. Questions should pertain to their policies and laws, and their lives, both political and personal.
1,068 Questions
Which party was John Howard from?
John Howard was and is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. Howard originally joined the Liberal Party in 1957. He served as its leader from 1985-1989 and 1995-2007.
He was the second longest serving leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister behind Sir Robert Menzies (1939-1941 and 1949-1966).
Example of How do you know when you have done a good job?
An example would be --- you win a reward/prize for doing a good job.
What impact did edmund barton have on australia?
Edmund Barton was born in 1849 and died in 1920 and belonged to the Protectionist Party.
Apart from being Australia's first Prime Minister from 1901-1903, he created the Federal Arbitration Court and the High Court of Australia, of which he was a founding justice.
After he retired from politics in 1903, he became a High Court judge.
Incidentally, he was related to one of Australia's greatest bush poets, Banjo Paterson.
Who was a worse Prime Minister - John Howard or Kevin Rudd?
It depends on what your views are. Kevin Rudd apploigised to the Aboriginals, while John Howard refused to, however Julia Gillard had to take over his place as Prime Minister, because apparently he wasn't doing his job efficiently.
It should be noted that, while John Howard brought in some policies that were not popular, he and his team were excellent economic managers. They amassed a significant budget surplus, which in essence was the only thing that carried the subsequent Labor government through the global recession with minimal impact on the country.
What did Edmund barton achieve?
Sir Edmund Barton's work in the Australian Political scene played a large role in the formation of the federation of Australia and in the draughting of its constitution.
Was Robert Menzies a good Prime minister?
Robert Menzies was Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, so it would be assumed that most people thought he was a good Prime Minister, to have been re-elected several times.
Although an extreme "monarchist", Menzies was an efficient administrator, under whose government Australia prospered.
Sir Robert Heath, born in 1575, was a member of the House of Commons in England from 1621 until 1625. In addition to being a politician, he was also a judge. Heath passed away in 1649.
Why isn't John McCarrick on channel 4 racing?
As I remember there was a difference of opinion and he was given the boot. It was less than a year ago. Extract from The Guardian Sport Horse racing Should Channel 4 have gone further and dispensed with John McCririck completely? The ebullient racing pundit said he was 'humiliated' by the decision to reduce his contribution by 25%, comparing it to Liverpool dropping Steven Gerrard. But would it be better if he disappeared from Channel 4 Racing entirely? God bless you John:)
Who said to your last man and your last shilling?
Andrew Fisher, Opposition Leader- who then became PM
Who was the British Prime Minister on the day you were born in 1994?
As it happens I was born many years before 1994, BUT in any case, the Prime Minister throughout that year was Conservative John Major. He had been Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor, but replaced her when she resigned in November 1990.
He took Britain through the Gulf War and was Prime Minister during the collapse of the Soviet Union, being elected in his own right in the election of May 1992. But his government was forced to take Britain out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and devalue the pound sterling later that year, due to Britain being unable to maintain interest rates at the level they were in Germany. This was known as 'Black Wednesday', when billions of pounds were wiped of UK shares- the UK was forced to renegociate it's terms of European membership under the Maastricht Treaty.
Major also failed to intervene to prevent the execution of British-American Nick Ingram in April 1995; Ingram was a British national but had an American father, and had been imprisoned since '83 for the murder of a shop owner during a robbery. He was sent to the electric chair in Georgia at the age of only 31- his was one of the last executions to be carried out in the US using the chair, and resulted in Major being held in contempt and disgust by many British citizens.
He lost the 1997 election to Tony Blair's New Labour party, who won a landslide majority.
