Kevin John Hogan (born 11 August 1963) is an Australian politician. He has been a
Nationals member of the
Australian House of Representatives
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, representing the
Division of Page
The Division of Page is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
History
The division is named after the Right Honourable Sir Earle Page, the second leader of the Country Party of Australia and the Prime Minister o ...
in
New South Wales
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, since September 2013.
Early life
Hogan was born in Port Augusta in regional South Australia. After completing a Bachelor of Economics at
Flinders University
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in 1984, he began a career in finance. He moved to Sydney and worked for an official money market dealer,
GIO Securities, dealing with the
Reserve Bank of Australia
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on a daily basis. Hogan then went on to work with
Colonial State Bank
The State Bank of New South Wales, from 1933 until 1981 known as the Rural Bank of New South Wales, was a bank that was owned by the Government of New South Wales. It existed from 1933 until 1994, when it was taken over by the Colonial State B ...
for ten years. In this role he managed a multibillion-dollar portfolio and appeared on Sky News every morning giving an economic update.
Hogan married his wife Karen in 1993. They returned to Karen's home town of
Lismore in 1998. He then completed a Graduate Diploma in Education in 1998 at
Southern Cross University
Southern Cross University (SCU) is an Australian public university, with campuses at Lismore and Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales, and at Coolangatta, the most southern suburb of the Gold Coast in Queensland.
It is ranked in the top ...
. He took up a position at St Mary's High School in
Casino
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where he taught Business Studies and Commerce from 1999 until 2006.
Hogan has also been a director of the industry superannuation fund Catholic Superannuation Retirement Fund, and was their investment officer from 2006 for a number of years.
He then operated his own consultancy business and runs a small cattle property outside Lismore.
Career
Hogan ran as the
Nationals candidate for the
Division of Page
The Division of Page is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
History
The division is named after the Right Honourable Sir Earle Page, the second leader of the Country Party of Australia and the Prime Minister o ...
at the
2010 election, but was defeated by the incumbent
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also simply known as Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia, one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms the f ...
candidate
Janelle Saffin
Janelle Anne Saffin (born 1 November 1954) is an Australian Labor Party politician. She has been the Member for Lismore in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 23 March 2019. She was the Member for Page in the Australian House of Repr ...
. He re-contested the
bellwether
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seat at the
2013 election and campaigned heavily on cost of living issues, jobs and the duplication of the Pacific Highway. He secured a two-party-preferred swing of 6.7 points – almost twice the national average of 3.6 points, finishing with a margin of 2.5 points. The redistribution before the
2016 election saw Kevin re-elected. Upon entering Australia's 44th Federal Parliament
as a member of the Coalition government, Hogan was appointed to the Finance Select Committee
where, at its first meeting, he urged Australian Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens to consider appointing a regional representative to the 11-member interest-rate setting board.
Hogan has served on
Lismore City Council’s Wastewater Advisory Committee, was vice-president of his local state primary school Parents & Citizens Committee, and has coached junior sporting teams.
On 26 March 2018, the House of Representatives elected Hogan as
Deputy Speaker
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Usage
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.
Following
Peter Dutton
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's unsuccessful attempt to oust
Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian former politician and businessman who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Turnbull grad ...
as leader of the
Liberal Party
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and
Prime Minister
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, Hogan announced that he would move to the crossbench if the Liberals called for
another spill before the next election. He made good on his promise on 24 August, when Turnbull resigned the leadership rather than face a second spill, which resulted in
Scott Morrison
Scott John Morrison (; born 13 May 1968) is an Australian politician. He served as the 30th prime minister of Australia and as Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2018 to 2022, and is currently the member of parliament (MP) for t ...
becoming Prime Minister. Hogan called himself an "Independent National"; while he sat on the crossbench, he continued to support the Coalition on confidence and supply matters, and remained in the National party room. Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister
Michael McCormack said that Hogan remained a member of the Nationals in good standing. McCormack also stated that Hogan would have the Nationals' full support if he sought reelection as a National at the
next federal election.
With Hogan's move to the crossbench and Turnbull's subsequent retirement from politics, the Coalition was reduced to a
minority government
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with 74 out of 150 seats. The Coalition remained in minority government after the
ensuing by-election saw Wentworth taken by independent
Kerryn Phelps
Kerryn Lyndel Phelps (born 14 December 1957) is an Australian medical practitioner, public health and civil rights advocate, medical educator and former politician.
She was the first woman to be elected president of the Australian Medical Asso ...
. As a result, the Coalition needed the votes of Hogan and the five crossbenchers to remain in office.
Hogan sought reelection as a National in 2019, and was reelected with a healthy swing of seven percent, enough to technically make Page a safe National seat. In a statement published on his own website on 21 May 2019, Hogan announced that he was returning to the Coalition benches, saying that he was satisfied that rule changes in the Liberal Party to discourage challenges to sitting Prime Ministers would end the instability that had caused him to withdraw from the Coalition in protest, and that the recent election results showed that the public wanted a Coalition government.
In February 2020, Hogan was promoted to the
Morrison Ministry as the Assistant Minister to the Deputy Prime Minister.
Llew O'Brien
Llewellyn Stephen O'Brien (born 26 June 1972) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2016 federal election, representing the Division of Wide Bay. He was deputy speaker of the House from Feb ...
was elected to replace him as the Deputy Speaker of the House on 10 February 2020.
External links
Official website
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hogan, Kevin
1963 births
Living people
National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia
Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Page
Members of the Australian House of Representatives
People from Port Augusta
21st-century Australian politicians