Rob Borbidge

Robert " Rob" Edward Borbidge ( born August 12, 1954 in Ararat, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian politician of the National Party of Australia and former Prime Minister of Queensland.

Life

Borbidge began his political career within the National Party at the age of 22 years when he when he ran for the Legislative Assembly of the State of Victoria in Ripon constituency, but lost to the constituency owner Tom Austin of the Liberal Party of Australia in 1976.

Then he moved to Queensland to and was there elected on 29 November 1980 on the deputies in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, where she won in the constituency Surfers Paradise against the previous liberal constituency owner Bruce Bishop.

On 9 December 1987, he was appointed by Prime Minister Mike Ahern as Minister of Industry, Small Commercial, Communication and Technology in the Cabinet, taking over after a cabinet reshuffle in January 1989, the Office of the Minister of Industry, Small Business, Communication and Tourism. Most recently, he was on 31 August 1989 Minister for Police, emergency services and law enforcement.

In the cabinet of Ahern's successor as Prime Minister, Russell Cooper, he was then from September 25 to December 7, 1989 Minister of Tourism, Environment, Nature Conservation and Forestry. As was then Wayne Goss of the Australian Labor Party Prime Minister, he was first Deputy Leader of the Opposition before he was on December 10, 1991 Opposition Leader ( Leader of the Opposition). In this role he was on 2 November 1992, leaders of the so-called " Queensland Coalition ", an electoral alliance between the National Party and the Liberal Party, and played it personally a major role in the formation of a coalition between the two conservative parties. However, this coalition was defeated in elections in 1992 and 1995, the Labor Party and most recently in July 1995 with 16 votes.

As prime minister in February 1996, Goss resigned after he had lost his parliamentary majority in the Legislative Assembly, Borbidge was born on February 19, 1996, his successor, and formed a National - Liberal coalition government.

On 20 June 1998, he succeeded as Prime Minister Peter Beattie of the Labor Party, which has since the Prime Minister of Queensland provides. Borbidge was then opposition leader again, but put this office after the election defeat by the Labor Party in 2001, as well as down the post of chairman of the National Party in Queensland.

External links and sources

• Biography ( rulers.org )

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