Topic summary
First Howard ministry
Member for Bennelong (1974–2007)
- Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs
- Minister for Special Trade Negotiations
- Treasurer of Australia
- Early 1980s recession
- 1983 Liberal Party leadership election
- 1985 Liberal Party leadership spill
- Joh for Canberra debacle
- 1987 Liberal Party leadership spill
- One Australia
- 1989 Liberal Party leadership spill
- Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations
- 1993 Liberal Party leadership spill
- 1995 Liberal Party leadership spill
Term of government (1996–2007)
- Gun control
- Workplace Relations Act 1996
- 1996 Parliament House riot
- Wik Peoples v Queensland
- Waterfront dispute
- Native Title Amendment Act 1998
- Work for the Dole scheme
- 1998 Australian Constitutional Convention
- Republic referendum
- Australian intervention in East Timor
- GST and taxation
- Tampa affair
- The Pacific Solution
- Australian involvement in the War in Afghanistan
- Australian involvement in the Iraq War
- Marriage Amendment Act 2004
- WorkChoices
- Northern Territory intervention
Ministries
Elections
The first Howard ministry (Liberal–Nationalcoalition) was the 60th ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 25th prime minister, John Howard. The first Howard ministry succeeded the second Keating ministry, which dissolved on 11 March 1996 following the federal election that took place on 2 March 1996, which saw the Coalition defeat Paul Keating's Labor Party. The ministry was replaced by the second Howard ministry on 21 October 1998 following the 1998 federal election.