(1948-12-14) 14 December 1948 (age 75) Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
Political party
Labor
Spouses
Mary Ciccarelli
(m. 1974; div. 1988)
Susie Annus
(m. 1990)
Children
3, including Hannah
Parents
Kim Beazley Sr.
Betty Judge
Education
Hollywood Senior High School
Alma mater
University of Western Australia (BA, MA)
Balliol College, Oxford (MPhil)
Profession
Academic, politician, diplomat
Kim Christian BeazleyAC (born 14 December 1948) is an Australian former politician and diplomat. Since 2022 he has served as the Chairman of the Australian War Memorial. Previously, he was leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 1996 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006, having previously been a cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments. After leaving parliament, he served as ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2016 and 33rd governor of Western Australia from 2018 to 2022.
Beazley was born in Perth, the son of politician Kim Beazley Sr. He studied at the University of Western Australia and Balliol College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. After a period as a lecturer at Murdoch University, Beazley was elected to Parliament at the 1980 election, winning the Division of Swan. Prime Minister Bob Hawke appointed Beazley to the Cabinet following Labor's victory at the 1983 election, and Beazley served as a minister continuously through to the party's defeat at the 1996 election. His roles included Minister for Defence from 1984 to 1990, Leader of the House from 1988 to 1996, Minister for Finance from 1993 to 1996 and the ninth deputy prime minister from 1995 to 1996.
After Labor's 1996 defeat, Beazley was elected unopposed as Labor Leader, replacing Paul Keating. Despite winning the popular vote at the 1998 election, Beazley could not win enough seats to form government, and after a second defeat in 2001, he resigned the leadership. He attempted twice to return to the leadership, doing so in 2005 after Labor lost the 2004 election, but was successfully challenged by Kevin Rudd in December 2006 following poor opinion polling. Beazley retired from Parliament at the 2007 election, which Labor won, and in 2010 was appointed Ambassador to the United States. He held this role until 2016, before being nominated as Governor of Western Australia by Premier Mark McGowan in 2018.
Kim Christian Beazley AC (born 14 December 1948) is an Australian former politician and diplomat. Since 2022 he has served as the Chairman of the Australian...
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the running mate of Kevin Rudd in a successful leadership challenge to KimBeazley, becoming deputy leader of the opposition. After Labor's victory at the...
as Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. In December 2006, he defeated KimBeazley in a leadership spill to become the leader of the Labor Party, thus becoming...
elected deputy leader of the ALP under KimBeazley, replacing Gareth Evans. He was elected unopposed to succeed Beazley as party leader following further defeat...
Australian Labor Party (ALP) was held on 4 December 2006. Opposition Leader KimBeazley was challenged by Shadow Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, while Deputy Opposition...
retired from Parliament shortly after the election, with his deputy KimBeazley being elected unopposed to replace him. Keating has since remained active...
adviser to Labor Leader KimBeazley before contesting Lilley again in the 1998 federal election and regaining the seat. KimBeazley promoted Swan to the...
left the frontbench in 1998 following a dispute with the party leader, KimBeazley. He returned to the shadow cabinet in 2001, when Simon Crean became leader...
November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2022. Beazley, Kim (2010). Father of the House: The Memoirs of Kim E. Beazley. ReadHowYouWant.com. p. 63. ISBN 9781459609822...
period the party has ever been in government at the national level. KimBeazley led the party to the 1998 federal election, winning 51 percent of the...
relating to the case being declared strictly confidential. In June 2004, KimBeazley was accused of having a "special relationship" with Ratih Hardjono when...
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quarters for taking unapproved leave to travel to Sydney to lobby for KimBeazley's return to the federal leadership; Gallop reprimanded McGowan and ordered...
for the safe Labor seat of Fremantle, succeeding KimBeazley (senior), and defeating his son, KimBeazley, for the Labor preselection. In 1980 he was promoted...
awarded in 1984 and is named after former Federal Education Minister KimBeazley Sr. In 2000, a new student award, the Excellence in Vocational Studies...
election, representing Victoria Park. Beazley is the daughter of KimBeazley and the granddaughter of KimBeazley Sr. and Shane Paltridge, all of whom...
South Wales Labor Premier Bob Carr, former Federal Labor Party leader KimBeazley and to the 1993 Liberal Party election campaign. McGregor stated that...
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former Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke and former Labor Opposition Leader KimBeazley had both previously endorsed Shorten as a potential future Labor Leader...
centre-left Australian Labor Party opposition led by Opposition Leader KimBeazley, despite losing the nationwide popular and two-party preferred vote....
John Anderson defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by KimBeazley. Future Opposition Leader Peter Dutton entered parliament at this election...
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