Brian Howe (politician)

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Brian Leslie Howe, AO (born 23 January 1936), Australian politician, was Deputy Prime Minister in the Labor government of Paul Keating from 1991 to 1995.

Howe was born in Melbourne, spent his early childhood in Malvern, was educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne. Howe then studied theological studies in Chicago 19967-69, and then returned to Australia. He was a Methodist Minister (Morwell, Eltham, Fitzroy) Uniting Church in Australia minister before being elected for the northern Melbourne metropolitan electoral Division of Batman to the Australian House of Representatives in 1977. He was a member of the Socialist Left faction of the Labor Party. He was Minister for Defence Support in the government of Bob Hawke from 1983. In 1984 he was promoted to Cabinet as Minister for Social Security. In this role he carried out radical reforms to Australia's social security system.^[1]

In 1990 Howe became Minister for Community Services and Health. When Paul Keating resigned from Cabinet in 1991, Howe succeeded him as Deputy Prime Minister. He became Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services in the Keating government in December 1991, dropping the Health part of the portfolio in 1993. He resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in June 1995 and was succeeded by Kim Beazley, and retired from politics at the 1996 election.^[1]

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Political offices
Preceded by Paul Keating	Deputy Prime Minister of Australia 1991–1995	Succeeded by Kim Beazley
Preceded by Ian Viner	Minister for Defence Support 1983 – 1984	Succeeded by Ros Kelly
Preceded by Donald Grimes	Minister for Social Security 1984 – 1990	Succeeded by Graham Richardson
Preceded by Neal Blewett (community services and health) Peter Staples (housing)	Minister for Community Services and Health 1990 – 1991	Succeeded by Graham Richardson health
	Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services 1991 – 1993
Preceded by David Simmons local government	Minister for Housing, Local Government and Community Services 1993 – 1994	Succeeded by Carmen Lawrence human services John Sharp regional development
	Minister for Housing and Regional Development 1994 – 1996
Parliament of Australia
Preceded by Horace Garrick	Member for Batman 1977 – 1996	Succeeded by Martin Ferguson
Party political offices
Preceded by Paul Keating	Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party 1991 – 1995	Succeeded by Kim Beazley

Persondata
NAME	Howe, Brian Leslie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	23 January 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Melbourne, Australia
DATE OF DEATH	Living
PLACE OF DEATH