30-572: Brian Howe may refer to: Brian Howe (politician) (born 1936), 8th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia Brian Howe (singer) (1953–2020), English vocalist with the 1980s and 1990s versions of Bad Company Brian Howe (actor) , American character actor best known for his major role in The Pursuit of Happyness Brian Howe, murder victim of Mary Bell See also [ edit ] Brian Howes , Canadian musician [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
60-540: A Democrat candidate in 1990, but polled only 12.9 per cent of the vote. After the 1990 election Howe was appointed to the post of Minister for Community Services and Health . When Paul Keating resigned from the cabinet in 1991, Howe was elected deputy leader of the Labor Party in his place, defeating Graeme Campbell in a caucus ballot by 81 votes to 18. He was subsequently appointed Deputy Prime Minister . As well as succeeding Keating as Deputy Prime Minister, Howe
90-577: A consultative ten-year framework of action for Commonwealth departments and agencies to remove any barriers or discrimination in employment and program delivery. In health policy, Howe established the National Mental Health Strategy, which included the 1992 mental health policy and allocated $ 269 million for implementation. The Commonwealth Dental Scheme arose out of a 1992 Health Strategy background paper. It provided for free dental care for financially disadvantaged adults from 1994, but
120-511: A safe Labor seat. However, the Greens made the seat a contest beginning with the 2010 election , where they reduced Labor from a 26.0% margin to a 7.9% margin. Though Labor increased their margin against the Greens to 10.6% in 2013 , the Greens reduced Labor's margin to just 1.0% in 2016 . At the 2018 Batman by-election however, Labor increased their margin to 4.4% against the Greens. In June 2018,
150-814: A visiting fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1997 and 1998. In 2012 he chaired the ACTU Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia. He spoke widely about the issue to the media and addressed the National Press Club. In 2017 Howe and his wife Renata were the subject of a documentary podcast interview by the Fitzroy History Society Oral History Project covering their early years of activism in
180-465: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Brian Howe (politician) Brian Leslie Howe AO (born 28 January 1936) is a retired Australian politician and Uniting Church minister. He served as the eighth deputy prime minister of Australia and the deputy leader of the Labor Party from 1991 to 1995, under Bob Hawke and Paul Keating . He
210-708: The Australian Electoral Commission announced that, at the 2019 Australian federal election , the division would be re-named Cooper , after Aboriginal community leader and activist William Cooper . When it was created it covered the inner suburbs of Carlton and Fitzroy , but successive boundary changes moved it steadily northwards, ending with it including Northcote , Preston, Reservoir and Thornbury. Located in Labor's traditional heartland of north Melbourne, Batman had been in Labor hands for all but two terms since 1910, and without interruption since 1969. It
240-471: The failed challenge to Gillard's leadership. He was succeeded at the 2013 election by former Senator David Feeney , who had been a parliamentary secretary in the Rudd and Gillard governments. In 2018, as a result of the 2017–18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis , Feeney resigned and decided not to seek pre-selection to run at the ensuing by-election. The 2018 Batman by-election held on 17 March saw
270-582: The status quo; but it did set in place a permanent mechanism whereby disability policy could be advanced. Howe also introduced the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 , which made disability discrimination unlawful and promoted equal rights, equal opportunity and equal access for people with disabilities. The Act empowered a Disability Discrimination Commissioner. In 1994 the Commonwealth Disability Strategy set in place
300-860: The 1960s. He served on the board of the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Patrons Council of the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria . He was a founding director of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government; and was chairman of the Victorian Disability Housing Trust and the community housing association Housing Choices Australia. Howe was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in January 2001, and promoted to Officer level (AO) in January 2008. He received an Honorary Doctorate from
330-569: The Princeton University. He was then appointed by Melbourne University as a Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Public Policy. He taught postgraduate students, worked on several research projects, authored three books and published many articles. He organised two major international conferences in Melbourne on changing labour markets and their implications for Australian social policy. He received
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#1732891666655360-556: The Programme. In 1992 Howe initiated Australia's first Housing Strategy, led by Meredith Edwards AM. The Strategy had no effect on housing policy, unlike the Staples Review that preceded it in 1988. It did recommend the establishment of an Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute , which Howe founded in 1993 and which is still operating in 2022. Following Howe's departure from parliament, he became Schultz Visiting Professor at
390-642: The United States to study at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. Howe was the minister at a Methodist church in Fitzroy from 1961 to 1969, while lecturing part-time in sociology. He remains an ordained Uniting Church minister. In the early 1970s, Howe was the founding director of the Centre for Urban Research and Action (CURA). This model of research and action was based on his experience studying in Chicago from 1965 to 1967, and particularly his involvement in
420-510: The University of Sydney in 2015. Division of Batman The Division of Batman was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria . It took its name from John Batman , one of the founders of the city of Melbourne. The division was created in 1906, replacing the Division of Northern Melbourne , and was abolished in 2019 and replaced by the Division of Cooper . The division
450-969: The areas of greatest disadvantage. The main innovation by Howe in the urban sector was the Building Better Cities Programme (BBC), the first federal venture into urban development since the Whitlam government , and Australia's first submissions-based capital assistance programme. The Commonwealth government supplied $ 816.4 million over five years for 'demonstration' projects meeting its urban objectives. From 1991, State and local governments could submit capital projects for consideration. The Programme supported projects variously redeveloping inner city precincts, constructing and refurbishing housing, building and upgrading railways and transport interchanges, new light rail systems, new water management infrastructure, as well as developing under-used government land. The incoming Howard government in 1996 discontinued
480-475: The civil rights and anti-poverty movements. CURA participated in campaigns against major changes in inner city Melbourne, including homelessness, the demolition of housing for high-rise estates, freeway construction. It supported the rights of tenants, the marginalisation of ethnic groups, and the provision of social services. Howe was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1977 federal election , representing
510-587: The government of Bob Hawke from 1983. In 1984 he became Minister for Social Security and carried out various radical reforms to Australia's welfare system. Howe appeared to face significant opposition within his electorate in 1988, when up to 60 members of the Greek Westgarth branch of the ALP defected to join the Australian Democrats . One of the defectors, tram-conductor George Gogas, contested Batman as
540-500: The health part of the portfolio in 1993. In June 1995 he resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and was succeeded by Kim Beazley . He remained in the House of Representatives and as a minister until the 1996 election . Howe's last months in the Deputy PM's role were marked by speculation that his successor would be, not Beazley, but Carmen Lawrence , the erstwhile Premier of Western Australia. At
570-470: The job. Kim Beazley was eventually elected as his successor. Howe was an extremely active Minister with a strong sense of social justice. Radical reforms were implemented in social security, disability and other areas during his term of office. In February 1986 Howe instigated the Cass Social Security Review, which led to substantive restructuring of the social security system. Some of
600-422: The most important changes were The most important new payments were: Howe’s tenure as Minister for Community Services from 1990-1994 coincided with a reorientation of disability policy to encourage disabled people to enter or remain in the formal workforce, enhancing and protecting the rights of people with disabilities and providing opportunities for them to contribute to wider society. In 1991, Brian Howe
630-460: The northern Melbourne metropolitan electoral Division of Batman . He defeated the incumbent Horrie Garrick for Labor preselection in a hard-fought preselection contest. It was reportedly the first occasion on which an incumbent Victorian Labor MP in a safe seat was defeated for preselection. A member of the Socialist Left faction of the Labor Party, Howe was Minister for Defence Support in
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#1732891666655660-482: The open market. The first Commonwealth State Disability Agreement (CSDA) in 1991 clarified the roles and responsibilities of the governments. The Commonwealth was given responsibility for income support and employment services and the States and Territories were given responsibility for accommodation and other support services. According to Lindsay (1995), the 1991 agreement provided no extra resources and merely reaffirmed
690-404: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brian_Howe&oldid=1095061084 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
720-454: The time Lawrence enjoyed considerable popularity, and there were those in the ALP who hoped that with her as Deputy PM, the Keating government (then doing badly in the opinion polls) would benefit. This hope was dashed when Lawrence herself became the subject of a royal commission around the time Howe left the post, although she denied that the royal commission had been her reason for not seeking out
750-559: Was a government minister continuously from 1983 to 1996, and a member of the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1996, representing the Division of Batman in Victoria. Howe was born in Melbourne . He grew up in the suburb of Malvern and attended Melbourne High School , going on to complete a Bachelor of Arts and a diploma in criminology at the University of Melbourne . He later moved to
780-558: Was a minister who was qualified to succeed Keating as Treasurer as Howe as a minister had been a member of the Expenditure Review Committee since 1987. However the position of Treasurer went instead to John Kerin. Howe continued as Deputy Prime Minister when Keating became Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Howe became Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services in the Keating government in December 1991, dropping
810-669: Was held by Brian Howe from 1977 to 1996, a senior minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, and also Deputy Prime Minister 1991–95. Howe was succeeded at the 1996 election by Martin Ferguson , moving to Parliament after six years as President of the ACTU . Ferguson served as a senior Labor frontbencher, and a minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments, before resigning from the ministry in March 2013 after
840-770: Was located in Melbourne's northern suburbs. It covered an area of approximately 66 square kilometres (25 sq mi) from Thomastown / Bundoora in the north to Clifton Hill in the south, with Merri Creek providing the vast majority of the western boundary and Darebin Creek , parts of Macleod and Plenty Road in Bundoora providing the eastern boundary. The suburbs of Alphington , Clifton Hill , Fairfield , Kingsbury , Northcote , Preston , Reservoir , and Thornbury ; and parts of Bundoora , Coburg North , Macleod , and Thomastown were in this division. Held by Labor for all but 10 years of its history , Batman traditionally had been
870-473: Was terminated on 1 January 1997 by the Howard government . Howe supported an edge-city concept of locational disadvantage, where people on the edge of cities were supposed to be poorer and more disadvantaged than others with better access to services, and commissioned 17 case studies intended to demonstrate this. However the initiative was discontinued when it was shown definitively that the inner cities contained
900-506: Was the responsible minister for the Disability Reform Package. which modified Commonwealth income support payments for people with disabilities to encourage their integration into the workforce. The package contained a large shift in emphasis toward 'open employment' as opposed to the existing special employment programs. Open Employment Services subsequently offered intensive and ongoing support to secure work for disabled people in
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