The 2007 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 24 November 2007. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of the seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The election featured a 39-day campaign, with 13.6 million Australians enrolled to vote.
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Liberal Party electoral advertising shown on free-to-air and pay TV in 2004.
Kevin Rudd campaigning with Labor candidate Kerry Rea in Bonner on 21 September 2007.
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John Winston Howard is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, having previously served as the treasurer of Australia from 1977 to 1983 under Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the second-longest in Australian history, behind only Sir Robert Menzies. Howard has also been the oldest living Australian former prime minister since the death of Bob Hawke in May 2019.
Howard in June 1997, just over a year after becoming prime minister
Howard and US Secretary of Defense William Cohen in 1997