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Kim Christian Beazley, AC (born 14 December 1948), is an Australian diplomat and former politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia from 1995 to 1996. He subsequently served as the Leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2006. Beazley was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1980 to 2007. He was a minister in the governments of Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and was Keating's Deputy Prime Minister from 1995 to 1996. He then became the Leader of the Opposition and led the Labor Party through the federal elections in 1998 and 2001, both of which Labor lost. He returned to the leadership in 2005, but then retired from Parliament at the 2007 election having lost the leadership of the Labor Party to Kevin Rudd after a 2006 challenge. Beazley is currently the Ambassador of Australia to the United States.〔ABC News (2010). (Wheelchair-bound Beazley becomes US ambassador ). Retrieved 23 February 2010.〕 ==Early life== Beazley was born in Perth, Western Australia.〔Ben Harvey, 'King of the Hill', ''The West Australian'': ''West Business Insider'', February 2014, pp. 6-8〕 His father, Kim Beazley Snr, was the Labor MP for Fremantle from 1945 to 1977 and education minister in the Whitlam Government (1972–75). His mother, Betty Judge, was an Australian athletics champion and record-holder. Beazley's uncle, the Reverend Syd Beazley, was one of the more than 1,000 prisoners of war who died in the sinking of the in July 1942. Beazley contracted polio as a child, at the age of six.〔(Polio Australia )〕 He was educated at Hollywood Senior High School and the University of Western Australia, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and subsequently a Master of Arts. Then, on a Rhodes Scholarship, he attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Philosophy.〔 At Oxford, he befriended Tony Blair, who would become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Geoff Gallop, later to be Premier of Western Australia. After he returned to Australia, Beazley tutored and lectured in politics at Perth's Murdoch University, recruited to Labor's right-wing faction by Graham Richardson and John Ducker,〔FitzSimons (1998). pp. 159–160.〕 before being elected MP for the seat of Swan at the 1980 election. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kim Beazley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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