Wayne Swan
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The Honourable Wayne Swan MP |
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| 14th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia | |
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In office 24 June 2010 – 27 June 2013 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Julia Gillard |
| Succeeded by | Anthony Albanese |
| Treasurer of Australia | |
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In office 3 December 2007 – 27 June 2013 |
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| Prime Minister |
Kevin Rudd Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Peter Costello |
| Succeeded by | Chris Bowen |
| Deputy Leader of the Labor Party | |
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In office 24 June 2010 – 26 June 2013 |
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| Leader | Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Julia Gillard |
| Succeeded by | Anthony Albanese |
| Minister for Finance and Deregulation | |
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In office 3 September 2010 – 14 September 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Lindsay Tanner |
| Succeeded by | Penny Wong |
| Manager of Opposition Business in the House | |
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In office 25 November 2001 – 16 June 2003 |
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| Leader | Simon Crean |
| Preceded by | Bob McMullan |
| Succeeded by | Mark Latham |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Lilley |
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Assumed office 3 October 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Elizabeth Grace |
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In office 13 March 1993 – 2 March 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Elaine Darling |
| Succeeded by | Elizabeth Grace |
| Personal details | |
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Wayne Maxwell Swan 30 June 1954 Nambour, Australia |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Toni Jensen (Late 1970s) Kim Swan (1984–present) |
| Children | Erinn Libbi Matthew |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland |
| Religion | Christianity (Non-practising) |
| Website | swanmp |
Wayne Maxwell Swan (born 30 June 1954) is an Australian politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and the Deputy Leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013, and the Treasurer of Australia from 2007 to 2013.
Swan was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1993 for Lilley in Queensland, although he lost this seat in 1996. He regained the seat in 1998 and has represented it ever since. Following Labor's victory in 2007, Swan was appointed Treasurer of Australia by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. On 24 June 2010, when Julia Gillard became Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Labor Party following the resignation of Kevin Rudd, Swan was elected unopposed to become Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, and was subsequently sworn in as the 14th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.
Following a leadership spill in the Australian Labor Party held in June 2013, during which Kevin Rudd replaced Julia Gillard as Labor leader, Swan resigned from all of his positions and returned to the backbench.
Swan was born and educated in Nambour, Queensland. He attended Nambour State High School and graduated in 1972.Kevin Rudd attended the same school at the same time, although the two did not know each other. Swan was awarded a Commonwealth scholarship and studied Public Administration at The University of Queensland where he resided at Emmanuel College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours. After graduation he became a lecturer in the Department of Management at the Queensland Institute of Technology. From 1978 to 1980, Swan acted as an advisor to Labor Leader Bill Hayden, and from 1983 to 1984 was an advisor to Mick Young and Kim Beazley. He was also the State Secretary of the Queensland Labor Party from 1991 to 1993.
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