Question: Who won the Australian federal election, 1998 to become the 25th Prime Minister of Australia?

Context articles: Australian federal election, 1998
2016 Australian federal budget
John Howard
Fraser Government
Australian federal election, 2013
Turnbull Government
Abbott Government
Digital Education Revolution
45th Parliament of Australia
Dorothy Tangney

Federal elections were held in Australia on 3 October 1998.
 All 148 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election.
 The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and coalition partner the National Party of Australia led by Tim Fischer defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Kim Beazley, despite Beazley's Labor Party polling more votes overall than Howard's Liberal-National Coalition.
The 2016 Australian federal budget was the federal budget to fund government services and operations for the 2016–17 financial year.
 It was presented to the House of Representatives by Treasurer Scott Morrison on 3 May 2016.
 It is the third budget to be handed down by the Liberal/National Coalition since their election to government at the 2013 federal election, and the first to be handed down by Morrison and the Turnbull Government.
 Breaking from convention, the budget was submitted a week earlier than the traditional annual date of the second Tuesday in May, amidst a run-up to the 2016 federal election.
 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had recalled parliament early, in anticipation of a double dissolution triggering an election for 2 July 2016.
John Winston Howard, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 26 July 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007.
 Only Sir Robert Menzies has served in the position longer.
The Fraser Government refers to the federal Executive Government of Australia led by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
 It was made up of members of a Liberal Party of Australia-Country Party of Australia coalition in the Australian Parliament from November 1975 to March 1983.
 Initially appointed as a "caretaker" government following the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government, Fraser won in a landslide at the resulting 1975 Australian Federal Election, and won substantial majorities at the subsequent 1977 and 1980 elections, before losing to the Bob Hawke led Australian Labor Party in the 1983 election.
A federal election to determine the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia took place on 7 September 2013.
 The centre-right Liberal/National Coalition opposition led by then-Opposition leader Tony Abbott of the Liberal Party of Australia and Coalition partner the National Party of Australia, led by Warren Truss, defeated the incumbent centre-left Labor Party government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by a 17-seat 3.6 percentage point two-party swing.
 Labor had been in government since the 2007 election.
 Abbott was sworn in by the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce as Australia's 28th Prime Minister on 18 September 2013 along with the Abbott Ministry and the members of the House of Representatives.
 The 44th Parliament of Australia opened on 12 November 2013, which is taken to be the commencement of the term of members of the House of Representatives.
 The new senators were sworn in by the next Governor-General Peter Cosgrove on 7 July 2014, with their six-year terms commencing on 1 July.
The Turnbull Government is the federal executive government of Australia, led by the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull.
 The government is made of members of the Liberal-National Coalition.
 The prime ministership of Malcolm Turnbull commenced on 15 September 2015, when he was sworn in by the Governor-General of Australia.
 The Turnbull Government succeeded the Abbott Government, which was elected at the 2013 federal election.
 Turnbull took office by challenging the incumbent Liberal leader Tony Abbott in an internal leadership ballot.
 Warren Truss, the leader of the Nationals continued as Deputy Prime Minister, until he retired in 2016 and was replaced by Barnaby Joyce.
The Abbott Government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
 The Government was made up of members of the Liberal–National Coalition.
 The Leader of the Nationals, Warren Truss, served as Deputy Prime Minister.
 Following the 2013 Australian federal election on 7 September, the Coalition defeated the second Rudd Government, ending six years of Labor Government.
 The Abbott Government was sworn into office on 18 September 2013.
 Less than two years later on 14 September 2015, Malcolm Turnbull defeated Abbott in a leadership ballot, 54 votes to 44.
The Digital Education Revolution (DER) was an Australian Government funded educational reform program, promised by then Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd during the launch of his 2007 Australian federal election campaign in Brisbane.
 It was officially launched in late 2008, with the first deployments announced by then Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard and then New South Wales counterpart, Verity Firth.
 The first deployment took place at Fairvale High School in August that year.
The 45th Parliament of Australia is a meeting of the legislative branch of the Australian federal government, composed of the Australian Senate and the Australian House of Representatives.
 It has been meeting in Canberra from 2 July 2016 to the present.
 The 2016 general election gave the Coalition of the Liberal and National Parties control of the House, albeit with a slimmer majority than the 44th Parliament, allowing their leader Malcolm Turnbull to stay in office as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia.
Dorothy Tangney started her career as a school teacher in Perth, Western Australia.
 In the Australian federal election, 1940 she stood as a federal Senate candidate for the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia, and again in the Australian federal election, 1943, when she was the first woman elected to the Senate.
 She served in the Senate from 21 August 1943 to 30 June 1968.
 Her 25 years of service made her the longest-serving woman parliamentarian.
 Her record has since been surpassed by Kathy Sullivan.
 She was the last surviving member of the 1944-1947 Senate.