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A Time of Change: Heads of Government and Opposition Leaders Across Australia

As 2024 starts, a reminder that across the nine federal, state and territory jurisdictions, there are eight Labor governments.

Current Australian Heads of Government & Opposition Leaders – from December 21, 2024
No. Jurisdiction PM/Premier/
Chief Minister
Age Party Since Opposition Leader Age Party Since
1.
AUSTRALIA
Anthony Albanese
61
ALP
23.05.2022
Peter Dutton
54
LNP
30.05.2022
2.
New South Wales
Chris Minns
45
ALP
28.03.2022
Mark Speakman
55
Liberal
21.04.2023
3.
Victoria
Jacinta Allan
51
ALP
27.09.2023
John Pesutto
54
Liberal
08.12.2022
4.
Queensland
Steven Miles
47
ALP
15.12.2023
David Crisafulli
45
LNP
12.11.2020
5.
Western Australia
Roger Cook
63
ALP
08.06.2023
Shane Love
58
National
30.01.2023
6.
South Australia
Peter Malinauskas
39
ALP
21.03.2022
David Speirs
44
Liberal
19.04.2023
7.
Tasmania
Jeremy Rockliff
54
Liberal
08.04.2022
Rebecca White
41
ALP
07.07.2021
8.
Australian Capital Territory
Andrew Barr
51
ALP
11.12.2014
Elizabeth Lee
40
Liberal
27.10.2020
9.
Northern Territory
Eva Lawler
ALP
21.12.2023
Lia Finocchiaro
40
CLP
01.02.2020

Three elections are scheduled for later this year, one in Queensland and one each in the ACT and Northern Territory. See a full list of election dates here.

The demise of the Queensland and NT governments is possible at these elections. The ACT government is a coalition of Labor and Greens members. There is next to no chance that it will be defeated.

It has been a time of new starts with 8 of the 9 jurisdictions gaining a new head of government over the past 22 months.

Three of these were as the result of an election: Australia (Morrison to Albanese), New South Wales (Perrottet to Minns) and South Australia (Marshall to Malinauskas).

Five heads of government changed as the result of retirements or forced departure: Tasmania (Gutwein to Rockliff), Western Australia (McGowan to Cook), Victoria (Andrews to Allan), Queensland (Palaszczuk to Miles) and the Northern Territory (Fyles to Lawler).

This page of heads of government and opposition leaders is regularly updated with more detail than shown in the table above.

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