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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Australian-Labor-Party-stub.svg/50px-Australian-Labor-Party-stub.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="43" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Australian-Labor-Party-stub.svg/75px-Australian-Labor-Party-stub.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Australian-Labor-Party-stub.svg/100px-Australian-Labor-Party-stub.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="564" data-file-height="489" /></a></span><hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><table style="width:100%; margin:1px; display:inline-table;"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0 0.5em 0 0;width:20%;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/2006_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="2006 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2006</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 1px;width:60%;" class=""><b>24 June 2010<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2010-06-24</span>)</span></b></td> <td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 0 0 0.5em;width:20%;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/2012_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="2012 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2012</a> →</td> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #DC241F"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Julia_Gillard_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Julia Gillard"><img alt="Julia Gillard" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Julia_Gillard_2010.jpg/125px-Julia_Gillard_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="125" height="160" class="mw-file-element" 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style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Labor_Left" title="Labor Left">Left</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center"> </td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%; text-align:left;"><b>Leader before election</b><br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rudd" title="Kevin Rudd">Kevin Rudd</a><br /> </p> </td> <td style="width:50%; text-align:right;"><b>Elected Leader</b> <br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Julia_Gillard" title="Julia Gillard">Julia Gillard</a><br /> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Leadership_spill" title="Leadership spill">leadership spill</a> occurred in the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party" title="Australian Labor Party">Australian Labor Party</a> on 24 June 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-shm_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rudd" title="Kevin Rudd">Kevin Rudd</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Australia" title="Prime Minister of Australia">prime minister of Australia</a>, was challenged by <a href="/wiki/Julia_Gillard" title="Julia Gillard">Julia Gillard</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Australia" title="Deputy Prime Minister of Australia">deputy prime minister of Australia</a>, for the leadership of the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party" title="Australian Labor Party">Australian Labor Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gillard won the election unopposed after Rudd declined to contest, choosing instead to resign.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gillard was duly sworn in as prime minister by <a href="/wiki/Quentin_Bryce" title="Quentin Bryce">Quentin Bryce</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_Australia" title="Governor-General of Australia">Governor-General</a>, on 24 June 2010 at <a href="/wiki/Government_House,_Canberra" title="Government House, Canberra">Government House</a>, becoming Australia's first female prime minister. </p><p>Gillard was the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party#ALP_Federal_Deputy_Parliamentary_Leaders" title="Australian Labor Party">Deputy Leader of the</a> <a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party" title="Australian Labor Party">Labor Party</a> since 4 December 2006, and was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Australia after Labor's landslide victory in the <a href="/wiki/2007_Australian_federal_election" title="2007 Australian federal election">2007 federal election</a>. She was also appointed the <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Education_and_Training" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister for Education and Training">Minister for Education</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Jobs_and_Innovation" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister for Jobs and Innovation">Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2010_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/First_Rudd_government" class="mw-redirect" title="First Rudd government">First Rudd government</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mark_Arbib_Portrait_2009.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Mark_Arbib_Portrait_2009.JPG/170px-Mark_Arbib_Portrait_2009.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Mark_Arbib_Portrait_2009.JPG/255px-Mark_Arbib_Portrait_2009.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Mark_Arbib_Portrait_2009.JPG/340px-Mark_Arbib_Portrait_2009.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1209" data-file-height="1705" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mark_Arbib" title="Mark Arbib">Mark Arbib</a> of the New South Wales Right Faction.</figcaption></figure> <p>Rudd and Gillard became <a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party#ALP_Federal_Parliamentary_Leaders" title="Australian Labor Party">Leader</a> and <a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party#ALP_Federal_Deputy_Parliamentary_Leaders" title="Australian Labor Party">Deputy Leader</a> of the Australian Labor Party on 4 December 2006, during the fourth and final term of the <a href="/wiki/Howard_government" title="Howard government">Howard government</a>. The pair successfully challenged sitting Leader <a href="/wiki/Kim_Beazley" title="Kim Beazley">Kim Beazley</a> and Deputy Leader <a href="/wiki/Jenny_Macklin" title="Jenny Macklin">Jenny Macklin</a> in a joint-ticket leadership election, brought about by opinion polls suggesting that Rudd was far more popular with the public than Beazley.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the leadership of Rudd and Gillard, Labor defeated the Liberal/National Coalition at the <a href="/wiki/2007_Australian_federal_election" title="2007 Australian federal election">2007 federal election</a> by a landslide. The <a href="/wiki/First_Rudd_Ministry" class="mw-redirect" title="First Rudd Ministry">Rudd Ministry</a> was sworn in by Governor-General <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jeffery_(Australian_Army_officer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Jeffery (Australian Army officer)">Michael Jeffery</a> on 3 December, with Rudd becoming the first Labor prime minister in over a decade, and Gillard becoming the first-ever female deputy prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rudd also appointed Gillard as Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After an initial long period of popularity, by mid-2010 polls began to detect disaffection both with the direction of the Government and the leadership style of Kevin Rudd; several opinion polls in April and May 2010 suggested that Labor would lose <a href="/wiki/2010_Australian_federal_election" title="2010 Australian federal election">the next election</a>. According to the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">ABC</a>'s <i>7:30 Report</i>, the seeds for Gillard to challenge Rudd were sown by "Victorian Right factional heavyweights" <a href="/wiki/Bill_Shorten" title="Bill Shorten">Bill Shorten</a> MP and Senator <a href="/wiki/David_Feeney" title="David Feeney">David Feeney</a>, who had between them secured the support of "New South Wales power broker" <a href="/wiki/Mark_Arbib" title="Mark Arbib">Mark Arbib</a>. Feeney and Arbib discussed the matter of a potential leadership challenge with Gillard on the morning of 23 June and began a numbers count to establish the feasibility of a leadership challenge. The pair found that there was enough support for Gillard for the challenge to proceed.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Declining approval for both the Labor Party and Rudd personally were attributed to many factors, including problems with the <a href="/wiki/Energy_Efficient_Homes_Package" title="Energy Efficient Homes Package">Home Insulation Program</a>, a significant delay to a planned <a href="/wiki/Carbon_Pollution_Reduction_Scheme" title="Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme">carbon emissions reduction scheme</a>, the proposed introduction of the <a href="/wiki/Resource_Super_Profits_Tax" class="mw-redirect" title="Resource Super Profits Tax">Resource Super Profits Tax</a>, and the election of <a href="/wiki/Tony_Abbott" title="Tony Abbott">Tony Abbott</a> as <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Australia)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Australia)">Leader of the Opposition</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-smh_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smh-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The controversy regarding the <a href="/wiki/Resource_Super_Profits_Tax" class="mw-redirect" title="Resource Super Profits Tax">Resource Super Profits Tax</a> was such that an "ad war" between the government and mining interests began in May 2010<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and continued until the downfall of <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Australia" title="Prime Minister of Australia">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rudd" title="Kevin Rudd">Kevin Rudd</a> in June 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Australian_Electoral_Commission" title="Australian Electoral Commission">Australian Electoral Commission</a> released figures indicating mining interests had spent $22 m in campaigning and advertisements in the six weeks prior to the end of the Rudd prime ministership.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Senior Labor MPs conceded that the ALP's primary vote had dropped below 30% in some key marginal seats, a figure which if replicated at a federal election would have seen a Labor defeat.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The leadership challenge was finally sparked after the influential <a href="/wiki/Australian_Workers%27_Union" title="Australian Workers' Union">Australian Workers' Union</a> officially switched its support from Rudd to Gillard.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> AWU Secretary <a href="/wiki/Paul_Howes" title="Paul Howes">Paul Howes</a> told the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Associated_Press" title="Australian Associated Press">Australian Associated Press</a> and <a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">ABC</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Lateline" title="Lateline">Lateline</a></i> that he and AWU President <a href="/wiki/Bill_Ludwig" title="Bill Ludwig">Bill Ludwig</a> had decided to support Gillard as prime minister after making an assessment that a change in leadership was in the best interest of their membership.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-smh1_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smh1-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Challenge">Challenge</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2010_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Challenge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="toccolours" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="float:right; margin-right:.5em; margin-top:.4em; font-size:90%;"> <caption><b>Better Labor Leader polling</b> <br /> Thinking about the leadership of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. Do you think Julia Gillard will be a better leader than Kevin Rudd, a worse leader or about the same? </caption> <tbody><tr style="background:red; color:#FFF"> <th>About the same </th> <th>Better leader </th> <th>Worse leader </th> <th>Uncommitted </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center; background:#ffcaca;"> <td>47% </td> <td>38% </td> <td>9% </td> <td>6% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="font-size:80%; background:#cef; text-align:center;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120303044000/http://www.newspoll.com.au/image_uploads/100608%20Federal%20Voting%20Intention%20%26%20Leaders%20Ratings.pdf">[1]</a> conducted by <a href="/wiki/Newspoll" title="Newspoll">Newspoll</a> and published in <a href="/wiki/The_Australian" title="The Australian">The Australian</a>. Polling (25–27 June 2010). </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>On the morning of 23 June 2010, NSW senator <a href="/wiki/Mark_Arbib" title="Mark Arbib">Mark Arbib</a>, Victorians Shorten and <a href="/wiki/David_Feeney" title="David Feeney">David Feeney</a>, and South Australian <a href="/wiki/Don_Farrell" title="Don Farrell">Don Farrell</a> visited Gillard to tell her that enough Labor MPs and senators had lost confidence in Prime Minister Rudd to make a <a href="/wiki/Leadership_spill" title="Leadership spill">challenge</a> feasible.<sup id="cite_ref-smh1_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smh1-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By midday, Arbib and Feeney told Gillard that they could guarantee her the support of the majority of <a href="/wiki/Labor_Right" title="Labor Right">right-wing</a> members from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, giving Gillard enough support to win the leadership and become prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-abc1_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Arbib and Feeney told Gillard that most of the Labor Party were convinced they would lose the next election if Rudd continued as prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-abc1_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They also said that they believed Labor would be able to win with Gillard as prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-abc1_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Party sources later told the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)</a> that Gillard agreed that Labor faced electoral defeat with Rudd at the helm.<sup id="cite_ref-abc1_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After holding meetings throughout the evening, Rudd addressed the media at 10:30 pm to announce that Gillard had asked for him to either resign as prime minister or hold a leadership election the following day to determine the Leadership of the Labor Party.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rudd stated that a leadership election would take place the following day and that he would stand as a candidate.<sup id="cite_ref-shm_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Morning_Herald" class="mw-redirect" title="Sydney Morning Herald">Sydney Morning Herald</a></i> reported that the final catalyst for the challenge against Rudd was "sparked by a report (in the Herald of 23 June) that Mr Rudd had used his Chief of Staff, Alister Jordan, to sound out the backbench over the past month on the level of support for him. This followed a Herald/Nielsen poll which showed the government would lose if an election were held then", and that "Rudd's action was regarded as a sign that he did not trust the repeated assurances by Ms Gillard that she would not stand".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2010_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Quentin_Bryce_swearing_in_Julia_Gillard_as_PM.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Quentin_Bryce_swearing_in_Julia_Gillard_as_PM.jpg/220px-Quentin_Bryce_swearing_in_Julia_Gillard_as_PM.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Quentin_Bryce_swearing_in_Julia_Gillard_as_PM.jpg/330px-Quentin_Bryce_swearing_in_Julia_Gillard_as_PM.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Quentin_Bryce_swearing_in_Julia_Gillard_as_PM.jpg/440px-Quentin_Bryce_swearing_in_Julia_Gillard_as_PM.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="307" /></a><figcaption>Julia Gillard is sworn in as Prime Minister by Governor-General <a href="/wiki/Quentin_Bryce" title="Quentin Bryce">Quentin Bryce</a> at <a href="/wiki/Government_House,_Canberra" title="Government House, Canberra">Yarralumla</a></figcaption></figure> <p>All 115 Labor Members of the <a href="/wiki/Australian_House_of_Representatives" title="Australian House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a> and <a href="/wiki/Australian_Senate" title="Australian Senate">Senators</a> were eligible to vote in the ballot. A total of 58 votes were required to secure a winning majority. </p><p>Whilst announcing the leadership election, Rudd initially declared that he would re-nominate himself for the leadership, even in the face of growing support for Gillard. However, by the morning of the vote it had become clear he did not have the support to secure a majority in the vote. Hours before the vote was due to take place, Rudd announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy and resigned as Leader of the Labor Party with immediate effect. This left Gillard to assume the leadership unopposed. <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Swan" title="Wayne Swan">Wayne Swan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Treasurer_of_Australia" title="Treasurer of Australia">Treasurer of Australia</a> at the time, was elected to fill Gillard's now vacant position as Deputy Leader, also unopposed.<sup id="cite_ref-theaustralian1_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theaustralian1-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rudd resigned as prime minister at midday, and Gillard was sworn in as the first female prime minister of Australia shortly afterwards. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2010_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 17 July 2010, just 23 days after becoming prime minister, Gillard advised the Governor-General <a href="/wiki/Quentin_Bryce" title="Quentin Bryce">Quentin Bryce</a> she wished to hold <a href="/wiki/2010_Australian_federal_election" title="2010 Australian federal election">an election</a> for 21 August 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a close contest between Gillard's Labor and <a href="/wiki/Tony_Abbott" title="Tony Abbott">Tony Abbott</a>'s Liberal/National Coalition, the election resulted in the first <a href="/wiki/Hung_parliament" title="Hung parliament">hung parliament</a> since the <a href="/wiki/1940_Australian_federal_election" title="1940 Australian federal election">1940 election</a>. Gillard was able to secure the support of the sole <a href="/wiki/Adam_Bandt" title="Adam Bandt">Greens MP</a> and three <a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent MPs</a> in order to allow Labor to form a <a href="/wiki/Minority_government" title="Minority government">minority government</a>, and Gillard was sworn in as prime minister for a second time on 14 September 2010. <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rudd" title="Kevin Rudd">Kevin Rudd</a>, who had successfully re-contested his seat at the election, accepted an offer to become <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_foreign_affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister for foreign affairs">minister for foreign affairs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hung_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hung-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rudd regained the leadership, and the prime ministership, at the <a href="/wiki/June_2013_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="June 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">June 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership spill</a>, shortly before Labor lost government at the <a href="/wiki/2013_Australian_federal_election" title="2013 Australian federal election">2013 Australian federal election</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2010_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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Evatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Calwell" title="Arthur Calwell">Arthur Calwell</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Gough_Whitlam" title="Gough Whitlam">Gough Whitlam</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Hayden" title="Bill Hayden">Bill Hayden</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hawke" title="Bob Hawke">Bob Hawke</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Paul_Keating" title="Paul Keating">Paul Keating</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Beazley" title="Kim Beazley">Kim Beazley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Crean" title="Simon Crean">Simon Crean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Latham" title="Mark Latham">Mark Latham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Beazley" title="Kim Beazley">Kim Beazley</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rudd" title="Kevin Rudd">Kevin Rudd</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Julia_Gillard" title="Julia Gillard">Julia Gillard</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rudd" title="Kevin Rudd">Kevin Rudd</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Shorten" title="Bill Shorten">Bill Shorten</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Albanese" title="Anthony Albanese">Anthony Albanese</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F00011;color:#FFFFFF;width:1%">Deputy leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gregor_McGregor" title="Gregor McGregor">Gregor McGregor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Hughes" title="Billy Hughes">Billy Hughes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Pearce" title="George Pearce">George Pearce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Gardiner" title="Albert Gardiner">Albert Gardiner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Scullin" title="James Scullin">James Scullin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Blakeley" title="Arthur Blakeley">Arthur Blakeley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Theodore" title="Ted Theodore">Ted Theodore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Forde" title="Frank Forde">Frank Forde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._V._Evatt" title="H. V. Evatt">H. V. Evatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Calwell" title="Arthur Calwell">Arthur Calwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gough_Whitlam" title="Gough Whitlam">Gough Whitlam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lance_Barnard" title="Lance Barnard">Lance Barnard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Cairns" title="Jim Cairns">Jim Cairns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Crean" title="Frank Crean">Frank Crean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Uren" title="Tom Uren">Tom Uren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Bowen" title="Lionel Bowen">Lionel Bowen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Keating" title="Paul Keating">Paul Keating</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Howe_(politician)" title="Brian Howe (politician)">Brian Howe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Beazley" title="Kim Beazley">Kim Beazley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gareth_Evans_(politician)" title="Gareth Evans (politician)">Gareth Evans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Crean" title="Simon Crean">Simon Crean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jenny_Macklin" title="Jenny Macklin">Jenny Macklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julia_Gillard" title="Julia Gillard">Julia Gillard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_Swan" title="Wayne Swan">Wayne Swan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Albanese" title="Anthony Albanese">Anthony Albanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanya_Plibersek" title="Tanya Plibersek">Tanya Plibersek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Marles" title="Richard Marles">Richard Marles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F00011;color:#FFFFFF;width:1%">Governments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Watson_government" title="Watson government">Watson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fisher_government_(1908%E2%80%931909)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fisher government (1908–1909)">Fisher I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fisher_government_(1910%E2%80%931913)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fisher government (1910–1913)">II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fisher_government_(1914%E2%80%931915)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fisher government (1914–1915)">III</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hughes_government_(1915%E2%80%931916)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hughes government (1915–1916) (page does not exist)">Hughes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scullin_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Scullin government">Scullin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtin_government" title="Curtin government">Curtin</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Forde_government&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Forde government (page does not exist)">Forde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chifley_government" title="Chifley government">Chifley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitlam_government" title="Whitlam government">Whitlam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawke_government" title="Hawke government">Hawke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keating_government" title="Keating government">Keating</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudd_government_(2007%E2%80%932010)" title="Rudd government (2007–2010)">Rudd I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gillard_government" title="Gillard government">Gillard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudd_government_(2013)" title="Rudd government (2013)">Rudd II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albanese_government" title="Albanese government">Albanese</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F00011;color:#FFFFFF;width:1%">Ministries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Watson_ministry" title="Watson ministry">Watson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Fisher_ministry" title="First Fisher ministry">Fisher 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Fisher_ministry" title="Second Fisher ministry">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Fisher_ministry" title="Third Fisher ministry">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Hughes_ministry" title="First Hughes ministry">Hughes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scullin_ministry" title="Scullin ministry">Scullin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Curtin_ministry" title="First Curtin ministry">Curtin 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Curtin_ministry" title="Second Curtin ministry">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forde_ministry" title="Forde ministry">Forde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Chifley_ministry" title="First Chifley ministry">Chifley 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Chifley_ministry" title="Second Chifley ministry">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Whitlam_ministry" title="First Whitlam ministry">Whitlam 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Whitlam_ministry" title="Second Whitlam ministry">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Whitlam_ministry" title="Third Whitlam ministry">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Hawke_ministry" title="First Hawke ministry">Hawke 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Hawke_ministry" title="Second Hawke ministry">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Hawke_ministry" title="Third Hawke ministry">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Hawke_ministry" title="Fourth Hawke ministry">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Keating_ministry" title="First Keating ministry">Keating 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Keating_ministry" title="Second Keating ministry">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Rudd_ministry" title="First Rudd ministry">Rudd 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Gillard_ministry" title="First Gillard ministry">Gillard 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Gillard_ministry" title="Second Gillard ministry">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Rudd_ministry" title="Second Rudd ministry">Rudd 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albanese_ministry" title="Albanese ministry">Albanese</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F00011;color:#FFFFFF;width:1%">Shadow cabinets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frontbench_of_John_Curtin" title="Frontbench of John Curtin">Curtin (1935–1941)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontbench_of_Ben_Chifley" title="Frontbench of Ben Chifley">Chifley (1949–1951)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontbench_of_H._V._Evatt" title="Frontbench of H. V. Evatt">Evatt (1951–1960)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontbench_of_Arthur_Calwell" title="Frontbench of Arthur Calwell">Calwell (1960–1967)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Ministry_of_Gough_Whitlam_(1967%E2%80%9372)" title="Shadow Ministry of Gough Whitlam (1967–72)">Whitlam (1967–72)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Ministry_of_Gough_Whitlam_(1975%E2%80%9377)" title="Shadow Ministry of Gough Whitlam (1975–77)">Whitlam (1975–77)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Ministry_of_Bill_Hayden" title="Shadow Ministry of Bill Hayden">Hayden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Ministry_of_Bob_Hawke" title="Shadow Ministry of Bob Hawke">Hawke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Ministry_of_Kim_Beazley_(1996%E2%80%932001)" title="Shadow Ministry of Kim Beazley (1996–2001)">Beazley (1996–2001)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Ministry_of_Simon_Crean" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Ministry of Simon Crean">Crean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Ministry_of_Mark_Latham" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Ministry of Mark Latham">Latham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Ministry_of_Kim_Beazley_(2005%E2%80%9306)" title="Shadow Ministry of Kim Beazley (2005–06)">Beazley (2005–06)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Ministry_of_Kevin_Rudd" title="Shadow Ministry of Kevin Rudd">Rudd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Ministry_of_Bill_Shorten" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Ministry of Bill Shorten">Shorten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Ministry_of_Anthony_Albanese" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Ministry of Anthony Albanese">Albanese</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F00011;color:#FFFFFF;width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=State_branches&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="State branches (page does not exist)"><span class="tmpl-colored-link" style="color: white; text-decoration: inherit;">State branches</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ACT_Labor_Party" title="ACT Labor Party">Australian Capital Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales_Labor_Party" title="New South Wales Labor Party">New South Wales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territory_Labor_Party" title="Territory Labor Party">Northern Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queensland_Labor_Party" title="Queensland Labor Party">Queensland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Australian_Labor_Party" title="South Australian Labor Party">South Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tasmanian_Labor_Party" title="Tasmanian Labor Party">Tasmania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Labor_Party" title="Victorian Labor Party">Victoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Australian_Labor_Party" title="Western Australian Labor Party">Western Australia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F00011;color:#FFFFFF;width:1%">Party institutions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party_National_Conference" title="Australian Labor Party National Conference">National Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party_National_Executive" title="Australian Labor Party National Executive">National Executive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Young_Labor" title="Australian Young Labor">Australian Young Labor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Fabian_Society" title="Australian Fabian Society">Australian Fabian Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chifley_Research_Centre" title="Chifley Research Centre">Chifley Research Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party_Caucus" title="Australian Labor Party Caucus">Federal Caucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Curtin_House" title="John Curtin House">John Curtin House</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F00011;color:#FFFFFF;width:1%">Factions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F00011;color:#FFFFFF;width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Labor_Right" title="Labor Right">Labor Right</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labor_Left" title="Labor Left">Labor Left</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labor_(Australia)" title="Independent Labor (Australia)">Independent Labor</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F00011;color:#FFFFFF;width:1%">Historical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ferguson_Left" title="Ferguson Left">Ferguson Left</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lang_Labor" title="Lang Labor">Lang Labor</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F00011;color:#FFFFFF;width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Australian_Labor_Party" title="History of the Australian Labor Party">History of the Australian Labor Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party_split_of_1916" title="Australian Labor Party split of 1916">1916 split</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party_split_of_1931" title="Australian Labor Party split of 1931">1931 split</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party_split_of_1955" title="Australian Labor Party split of 1955">1955 split</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis" title="1975 Australian constitutional crisis">1975 Australian constitutional crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faceless_men" title="Faceless men">Faceless men</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Labor_Party_(NSW)" title="Federal Labor Party (NSW)">Federal Labor (NSW)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(Australian_Labor_Party)" title="Gang of Four (Australian Labor Party)">Gang of Four</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Industrial_Groups" title="Industrial Groups">Industrial Groups</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_Island_Labor_Party" title="Norfolk Island Labor Party">Norfolk Island Labor Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_light_on_the_hill" title="The light on the hill">The light on the hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tree_of_Knowledge_(Australia)" title="Tree of Knowledge (Australia)">Tree of Knowledge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F00011;color:#FFFFFF;width:1%">Leadership votes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1901_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1901 Australian Labor Party leadership election (page does not exist)">1901</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1907 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1907</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1913_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1913 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1913</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1915_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1915 Australian Labor Party leadership election (page does not exist)">1915</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1916_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1916 Australian Labor Party leadership election (page does not exist)">1916</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1920_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1920 Australian Labor Party leadership spill (page does not exist)">1920</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1922 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1928_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1928 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1931 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1935 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1945 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1951 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1954 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1956 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1959 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1960 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1966 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1967 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1968 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1976 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_1977_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="May 1977 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1977 (May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_1977_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="December 1977 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1977 (Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1982 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1983 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_1991_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="June 1991 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1991 (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_1991_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="December 1991 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1991 (Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1996 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="2001 Australian Labor Party leadership election">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spills" title="2003 Australian Labor Party leadership spills">2003 (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spills" title="2003 Australian Labor Party leadership spills">2003 (Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="2005 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="2006 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2006</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="2012 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2013_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="March 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2013 (Mar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2013_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="June 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2013 (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2013_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="October 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership election">2013 (Oct)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="2019 Australian Labor Party leadership election">2019</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" 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election">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1928_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1928 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1931 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1935 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1945 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1951 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1954 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1956 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1959 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1960 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1966 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1967 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1968 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1976 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_1977_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="May 1977 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1977 (May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_1977_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="December 1977 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1977 (Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1982 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="1983 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_1991_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="June 1991 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1991 (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_1991_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="December 1991 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">1991 (Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="1996 Australian Labor Party leadership election">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="2001 Australian Labor Party leadership election">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spills" title="2003 Australian Labor Party leadership spills">2003 (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spills" title="2003 Australian Labor Party leadership spills">2003 (Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="2005 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="2006 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2006</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="2012 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2013_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="March 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2013 (Mar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2013_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_spill" title="June 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership spill">2013 (Jun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2013_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="October 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership election">2013 (Oct)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Australian_Labor_Party_leadership_election" title="2019 Australian Labor Party leadership election">2019</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia" title="Liberal Party of Australia">Liberal Party</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/United_Australia_Party" title="United Australia Party">UAP</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1931_United_Australia_Party_leadership_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1931 United Australia Party leadership election (page does not exist)">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_United_Australia_Party_leadership_election" title="1939 United Australia Party leadership election">1939</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1941_United_Australia_Party_leadership_election" title="1941 United Australia Party leadership election">1941</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1943_United_Australia_Party_leadership_election" title="1943 United Australia Party leadership election">1943</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia" title="Liberal Party of Australia">Liberal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1966_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_election" title="1966 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_election" title="1968 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="1969 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="1971 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_election" title="1972 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="1975 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="1982 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_election" title="1983 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="1985 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="1987 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="1989 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_election" title="1990 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="1993 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="1994 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="1995 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_election" title="2007 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="2008 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2015_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill_motion" title="February 2015 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill motion">2015 (Feb)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2015_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="September 2015 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill">2015 (Sep)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spills" title="2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_election" title="2022 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election">2022</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia" title="National Party of Australia">National Party</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_elections" title="National Party of Australia leadership elections">1921</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_Country_Party_of_Australia_leadership_election" title="1939 Country Party of Australia leadership election">1939</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_elections" title="National Party of Australia leadership elections">1941</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_elections" title="National Party of Australia leadership elections">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_elections" title="National Party of Australia leadership elections">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_elections" title="National Party of Australia leadership elections">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_elections" title="National Party of Australia leadership elections">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_elections" title="National Party of Australia leadership elections">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_elections" title="National Party of Australia leadership elections">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_elections" title="National Party of Australia leadership elections">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_elections" title="National Party of Australia leadership elections">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_elections" title="National Party of Australia leadership elections">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_election" title="2018 National Party of Australia leadership election">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="2020 National Party of Australia leadership spill">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="2021 National Party of Australia leadership spill">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_National_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill" title="2022 National Party of Australia leadership spill">2022</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Australian_Greens" title="Australian Greens">Greens</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" 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