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1993 Australian federal election
Summary
The 1993 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 37th Parliament of Australia. It was held on 13 March 1993. All 147 seats of the Australian House of Representatives and 40 seats of the 76-seat Australian Senate were up for election. The incumbent government of the centre-left Australian Labor Party led by Paul Keating, the Prime Minister of Australia, was re-elected to a fifth term, defeating the centre-right Liberal/National Coalition led by Opposition Leader John Hewson of the Liberal Party of Australia, and coalition partner Tim Fischer of the National Party of Australia. This was the first, and to date only, time the Labor Party won a fifth consecutive election.
The result was considered an upset, as opinion polls had predicted a Coalition win. In his victory speech, Keating would famously describe the result as "the sweetest victory of all". The Coalition's loss was attributed to the unpopularity of Hewson and his economic policy, popularly known as Fightback!, with the set piece being the majorly divisive Goods and Services Tax (GST).
This would be the last time that the Labor Party won a majority at the federal level until the 2007 election. It also remains the only time that the Liberal Party was led by a leader who previously had no experience as a minister.
This was the first election after the end of the late 80s/early 90s recession. The opposition Liberal Party was led by John Hewson, a former professor of economics at the University of New South Wales who succeeded Liberal leader Andrew Peacock in 1990.
In November 1991 the Liberal Party launched the 650-page Fightback! policy document − a radical collection of "dry", economic liberal measures including:
the introduction of a Goods and Services tax (GST) of 15%,
various changes to Medicare including the abolition of bulk billing for non-concession holders,
the introduction of a nine-month limit on unemployment benefits,
various changes to industrial relations including the abolition of industrial award,
a 10 billion in government spending cuts,
the abolition of state payroll taxes and the privatisation of a large number of government-owned enterprises.
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