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Wayne Maxwell Swan (born 30 June 1954) is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party (ALP) member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1993 to 1996, and again since 1998, representing the Division of Lilley, Queensland. Following Labor's win at the 2007 election, he became Treasurer of Australia in the Rudd Cabinet.
[edit] BackgroundSwan was born and educated in Nambour, Queensland. He won a Commonwealth scholarship to study public administration[1] at the University of Queensland, becoming a lecturer in the Department of Management at the Queensland Institute of Technology before entering politics.[2] From 1978 to 1980 Swan was an adviser to the Leader of the Opposition Bill Hayden, and from 1983 to 1984 was an adviser to federal Labor ministers Mick Young and Kim Beazley. He was State Secretary of the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party 1991-93. [edit] Political careerHe was elected as the Member for Lilley in the March 1993 election, but was defeated in 1996. In 1996, Swan donated $1,400 to the Australian Democrats campaign manager in his seat of Lilley.[3] At the time speculation surrounded the nature of the donation.[4][5] The matter was referred to the Australian Federal Police, who chose to take no further action.[6][7] Following his election loss he was an adviser to Opposition Leader Kim Beazley. He was re-elected at the October 1998 election. Shortly afterwards, he was elected a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry. He was Shadow Minister for Family and Community Services from 1998 and Manager of Opposition Business in the House from November 2001. During the 2003 Labor leadership contests he was a close confidante and supporter of Kim Beazley, but retained his positions under the new leader, Mark Latham. After the 2004 election loss, Swan was appointed Shadow Treasurer. This came as a surprise, since it was rumoured that Latham wished to appoint then Shadow Health Minister, Julia Gillard to the position. However, after strong opposition from Labor's Right Faction, Latham was put under pressure to appoint either Swan or Shadow Industrial Relations Minister Stephen Smith as Treasurer.[8] Swan worked with Beazley and Industrial Relations spokesperson Stephen Smith to devise Labor's response to the Howard government's 2005-06 budget and tax cuts. The ALP proposed tax relief for low and middle income earners earned mixed responses in the business community. Swan launched his book during the same month, Postcode: The Splintering of a Nation. In early November 2007 Wayne Swan and then Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd revisited their old school, Nambour State High School. Rudd gave a speech to students in which he said that, at school, "Wayne was very, very cool; and I was very, very not".[9] Following the 2007 federal election of the Rudd government, Swan was appointed Treasurer of Australia in Kevin Rudd's cabinet on 3 December 2007.[10] On 13 May 2008, Wayne Swan delivered the first Federal Labor Budget in 13 years. Fighting inflation with spending cuts was a key theme.[11] The Newspoll after the budget showed Swan leading Shadow Treasurer Malcolm Turnbull as preferred Treasurer for the first time, with a margin of 40 to 26 percent.[12] Commentators have attributed this result to leadership tensions in the Liberal party, mixed messages on a fuel excise cut from the opposition and general unpopularity of the opposition leadership of Brendan Nelson.[13] A mid financial-year budget review, saw the first year Treasurer drastically reduce an expected budget surplus, from $21.7bn, to a surplus in the vicinity of $11bn.[14] [edit] Family and otherSwan is married to his second wife Kim and has three children.[15] An earlier marriage, when he was 21, lasted only a year.[16] At age 48, Swan was diagnosed with prostate cancer but has since fully recovered. He has become an advocate for the prostate cancer public awareness campaign.[17] [edit] References
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