List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition
Deputy Leaders of the Opposition

List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition

Section Title: Deputy Leaders of the Opposition
Table Section Text: None

Leader	Party	Constituency	Took office	Left office	Leader

Joseph Cook	-	Commonwealth Liberal Party	Parramatta (NSW)	26 May 1909	2 June 1909	Deakin 1909

Gregor McGregor	-	Labor Party	Senator for South Australia (SA)	2 June 1909	29 April 1910	Fisher 1909–10

Joseph Cook	-	Commonwealth Liberal Party	Parramatta (NSW)	1 July 1910	20 January 1913	Deakin 1910–13

Sir John Forrest	-	Commonwealth Liberal Party	Swan (WA)	20 January 1913	24 June 1913	Cook 1913

Gregor McGregor	-	Labor Party	Senator for South Australia (SA)	8 July 1913	7 September 1914	Fisher 1913–14

Sir John Forrest	-	Commonwealth Liberal Party	Swan (WA)	8 October 1914	17 February 1917	Cook 1914–17

Albert Gardiner	-	Labor Party	Senator for New South Wales (NSW)	17 February 1917	March 1927	Tudor 1917–22

Charlton 1922–28

James Scullin	-	Labor Party	Yarra (Vic)	March 1927	29 March 1928

Arthur Blakeley	-	Labor Party	Darling (NSW)	29 March 1928	1929	Scullin 1928–29

Ted Theodore	-	Labor Party	Dalley (NSW)	1929	22 October 1929

Henry Gullett	-	Nationalist Party	Henty (Vic)	20 November 1929	7 May 1931	Latham 1929–31

John Latham	-	United Australia Party	Kooyong (Vic)	7 May 1931	6 January 1932	Lyons 1931–32

Frank Forde	-	Labor Party	Capricornia (Qld)	7 January 1932	7 October 1941	Scullin 1932–35

Curtin 1935–41

Billy Hughes	-	United Australia Party	North Sydney (NSW)	9 October 1941	14 April 1944	Fadden 1941–43

Menzies 1943–49

Eric Harrison	-	United Australia Party	Wentworth (NSW)	14 April 1944	19 December 1949

Liberal Party

H. V. Evatt	-	Labor Party	Barton (NSW)	19 December 1949	13 June 1951	Chifley 1949–51

Arthur Calwell	-	Labor Party	Melbourne (Vic)	13 June 1951	9 February 1960	Evatt 1960–67

Gough Whitlam	-	Labor Party	Werriwa (NSW)	7 March 1960	8 February 1967	Calwell 1960–67

Lance Barnard	-	Labor Party	Bass (Tas)	9 February 1967	5 December 1972	Whitlam 1967–72

Phillip Lynch	-	Liberal Party	Flinders (Vic)	20 December 1972	11 November 1975	Snedden 1972–75

Fraser 1975

Frank Crean	-	Labor Party	Melbourne Ports (Vic)	11 November 1975	22 December 1975	Whitlam 1975–77

Tom Uren	-	Labor Party	Reid (NSW)	22 December 1975	22 December 1977

Lionel Bowen	-	Labor Party	Kingsford Smith (NSW)	22 December 1977	11 March 1983	Hayden 1977–183

Hawke 1983

John Howard	-	Liberal Party	Bennelong (NSW)	11 March 1983	5 September 1985	Peacock 1983–85

Neil Brown	-	Liberal Party	Menzies (Vic)	5 September 1985	17 July 1987	Howard 1985–89

Andrew Peacock	-	Liberal Party	Kooyong (Vic)	17 July 1987	9 May 1989

Fred Chaney	-	Liberal Party	Senator for Western Australia (WA) 1989–90 Pearce (WA) 1990	9 May 1989	24 March 1990	Peacock 1989–90

Peter Reith	-	Liberal Party	Flinders (Vic)	24 March 1990	13 March 1993	Hewson 1990–94

Michael Wooldridge	-	Liberal Party	Chisholm (Vic)	13 March 1993	23 May 1994

Peter Costello	-	Liberal Party	Higgins (Vic)	23 May 1994	19 March 1996	Downer 1994–95

Howard 1995–96

Gareth Evans	-	Labor Party	Holt (Vic)	19 March 1996	19 October 1998	Beazley 1996–2001

Simon Crean	-	Labor Party	Hotham (Vic)	19 October 1998	22 November 2001

Jenny Macklin	-	Labor Party	Jagajaga (Vic)	22 November 2001	18 September 2006	Crean 2001–03

Latham 2003–05

Beazley 2005–06

Julia Gillard	-	Labor Party	Lalor (Vic)	4 December 2006	3 December 2007	Rudd 2006–07

Julie Bishop	-	Liberal Party	Curtin (WA)	3 December 2007	18 September 2013	Nelson 2007–08

Turnbull 2008–09

Abbott 2009–13

Anthony Albanese	-	Labor Party	Grayndler (NSW)	18 September 2013	14 October 2013	Bowen (interim) 2013

Shorten 2013–present

Tanya Plibersek	-	Labor Party	Sydney (NSW)	14 October 2013	Incumbent

Sentence(s)

Plibersek was deputy leader of the Labor Party (and thus Deputy Leader of the Opposition) on 14 October 2013.
Plibersek was elected as deputy leader of the Labor Party on 14 October 2013.
Plibersek was elected as deputy leader of the Labor Party on 14 October 2013.

final_sentence: Plibersek was deputy leader of the Labor Party (and thus Deputy Leader of the Opposition) on 14 October 2013.
final_sentence: Plibersek was elected as deputy leader of the Labor Party on 14 October 2013.
final_sentence: Plibersek was elected as deputy leader of the Labor Party on 14 October 2013.