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 | |||||||||
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| No. | Jurisdiction | PM/Premier/ Chief Minister |
Age | Party | Since | Opposition Leader | Age | Party | Since |
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1.
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AUSTRALIA
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Anthony Albanese
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ALP
|
23.05.2022
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Peter Dutton
|
LNP
|
30.05.2022
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2.
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New South Wales
|
Chris Minns
|
ALP
|
28.03.2022
|
Mark Speakman
|
Liberal
|
21.04.2023
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3.
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Victoria
|
Jacinta Allan
|
ALP
|
27.09.2023
|
John Pesutto
|
Liberal
|
08.12.2022
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4.
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Queensland
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Steven Miles
|
ALP
|
15.12.2023
|
David Crisafulli
|
LNP
|
12.11.2020
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5.
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Western Australia
|
Roger Cook
|
ALP
|
08.06.2023
|
Shane Love
|
National
|
30.01.2023
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6.
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South Australia
|
Peter Malinauskas
|
ALP
|
21.03.2022
|
David Speirs
|
Liberal
|
19.04.2023
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7.
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Tasmania
|
Jeremy Rockliff
|
Liberal
|
08.04.2022
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Rebecca White
|
ALP
|
07.07.2021
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8.
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Australian Capital Territory
|
Andrew Barr
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ALP
|
11.12.2014
|
Elizabeth Lee
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Liberal
|
27.10.2020
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9.
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Northern Territory
|
Eva Lawler
|
ALP
|
21.12.2023
|
Lia Finocchiaro
|
CLP
|
01.02.2020
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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).