page_title: 2002 in Australia
section_title: Incumbents
hierarchical_section_title: 2002 in Australia / Incumbents
caption_attribution_description: Australian Prime Minister John Howard responds to a reporter's question during a joint press conference with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld in the Pentagon on Feb. 4, 2003. Howard and Rumsfeld met earlier discuss a range of bilateral security issues including the situation in Iraq.
context_page_description: The following lists events that happened during 2002 in Australia.
context_section_description: Monarch – Elizabeth II
  Governor-General – Peter Hollingworth
  Prime Minister – John Howard
  Opposition Leader – Simon Crean
  Chief Justice – Murray Gleeson
caption: John Howard
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