Michael William King is a former politician who served as Head of Government of the

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

n territory of

Norfolk Island Norfolk Island (, ; Norfuk: ''Norf'k Ailen'') is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, directly east of Australia's Evans Head and about from Lord Howe Island. Together with ...

from 1994 until 1997. King became Head of Government following the 1994 election, serving in the role until the end of the Assembly's three-year term in

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. He also led the Norfolk Island Labor Party, serving as Opposition Leader at different stages, although the party appears to have faded away sometime after 2015. King did not seek re-election in

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, and Norfolk Labor appears to have faded away sometime after 2015.

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