Brian Howe (politician)

**Brian Leslie Howe**, AO (born 23 January 1936), is an Australian politician and Christian minister. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and deputy leader of the Labor Party from 1991 to 1995, under Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1996, representing the Division of Batman in Victoria.

## Infobox (mp)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Reverend the Honourable
- **name**: Brian Howe
- **honorific-suffix**: Officer of the Order of Australia, AO
- **image**: Second Keating Cabinet 1994 (cropped Howe).jpg
- **caption**: Howe in 1994
- **office**: Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, 8th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
- **term start**: 3 June 1991
- **primeminister**: Bob Hawke
Paul Keating
- **term end**: 20 June 1995
- **predecessor**: Paul Keating
- **successor**: Kim Beazley
- **office1**: Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Labor Party
- **term start1**: 3 June 1991
- **term end1**: 20 June 1995
- **leader1**: Bob Hawke
Paul Keating
- **predecessor1**: Paul Keating
- **successor1**: Kim Beazley
- **office2**: Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development (Australia)#Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Regional Development
- **term start2**: 25 March 1994
- **term end2**: 11 March 1996
- **primeminister2**: Paul Keating
- **predecessor2**: Peter Cook (Australian politician), Peter Cook
- **successor2**: John Sharp (Australian politician), John Sharp
- **office3**: Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, Minister for Local Government
- **term start3**: 24 March 1993
- **term end3**: 25 March 1994
- **primeminister3**: Paul Keating
- **predecessor3**: David Simmons (Australian politician), David Simmons
- **successor3**: Warwick Smith (politician), Warwick Smith
- **office4**: Minister for Social Services (Australia)#List of housing ministers, Minister for Housing
- **term start4**: 7 May 1990
- **term end4**: 11 March 1996
- **primeminister4**: Bob Hawke
Paul Keating
- **predecessor4**: Peter Staples
- **office5**: Minister for Social Services (Australia), Minister for Community Services
- **term start5**: 4 April 1990
- **term end5**: 25 March 1994
- **primeminister5**: Bob Hawke
Paul Keating
- **predecessor5**: Neal Blewett
- **successor5**: Carmen Lawrence
- **office6**: Minister for Health (Australia), Minister for Health
- **term start6**: 4 April 1990
- **term end6**: 24 March 1993
- **primeminister6**: Bob Hawke
Paul Keating
- **predecessor6**: Neal Blewett
- **successor6**: Graham Richardson
- **office7**: Minister for Human Services (Australia), Minister for Social Security
- **term start7**: 13 December 1984
- **term end7**: 4 April 1990
- **primeminister7**: Bob Hawke
- **predecessor7**: Don Grimes
- **successor7**: Graham Richardson
- **office8**: Minister for Defence Materiel (Australia), Minister for Defence Support
- **term start8**: 11 March 1983
- **term end8**: 13 December 1984
- **primeminister8**: Bob Hawke
- **predecessor8**: Ian Viner
- **constituency mp9**: Division of Batman, Batman
- **parliament9**: Australian
- **predecessor9**: Horrie Garrick
- **successor9**: Martin Ferguson
- **term start9**: 10 December 1977
- **term end9**: 2 March 1996
- **birth place**: Melbourne
- **nationality**: Australian
- **party**: Australian Labor Party, Labor
- **alma mater**: University of Melbourne
- **occupation**: Minister