Trevor Kaine

{{Short description|Australian politician (1928–2008)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Trevor Kaine | image = Trevor Kaine and John Langmore (cropped).jpg | image_size = 200 | caption = Kaine in 1990 | order = 2nd | office = Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory | term_start = 5 December 1989 | term_end = 6 June 1991 | deputy = Bernard Collaery | predecessor = Rosemary Follett | successor = Rosemary Follett | constituency = | majority = | office2 = Member of ACT Legislative Assembly | term_start2 = 4 March 1989 | term_end2 = 18 February 1995 | alongside2 = Berry, Collaery, Connolly, Duby, Follett, Grassby, Humphries, Jensen, Kinloch, Maher, Moore, Nolan, Prowse, Stefaniak, Stevenson, Wood, Whalan | office3 = Member of ACT Legislative Assembly | term_start3 = 18 February 1995 | term_end3 = 20 October 2001 | successor3 = Steve Pratt | constituency3 = Brindabella | alongside3 = Wood, Hargreaves, Smyth, Osborne | birth_name = Trevor Thomas Kaine | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|2|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Penguin, Tasmania, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|2008|6|3|1928|2|17|df=y}} | death_place = | party = Liberal Party | other_party = Independent<br/> Canberra Liberals <br/> United Canberra Party | allegiance = {{flag|Australia}} | branch = Royal Australian Air Force | rank = Wing Commander}}

'''Trevor Thomas Kaine''' (17 February 1928 – 3 June 2008) was an Australian politician who served as the first male Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 1989 to 1991. Kaine was elected into a multi-member electorate in the unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, from 1989 to 2001, initially as a member of the Liberal Party and later as an independent.<ref name="ACTLA">{{cite web|url=http://www.legassembly.act.gov.au/education/memlist/memlist.pdf|title=Members of the ACT Legislative Assembly|publisher=ACT Legislative Assembly|year=2008|accessdate=2010-08-02|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217044100/http://www.legassembly.act.gov.au/education/memlist/memlist.pdf|archivedate=17 February 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Early career== Kaine was born in the town of Penguin in Tasmania, and was educated in Victoria and Queensland. He moved to Canberra in the 1950s whilst stationed with the Royal Australian Air Force.<ref name="canberratimes">McLennan, David, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080612183650/http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/politicalstalwartdead-at-80/782366.aspx Political stalwart dead at 80], ''The Canberra Times'', 4 June 2008.</ref>

==Political career== Kaine was a member of the ACT House of Assembly as a member for Fraser from 1975 to 1977, and again from 1985 until that House was dissolved. He was elected to the first Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly at the 1989 general election and, at the first sitting of the Assembly, became the first Leader of the Opposition of the ACT,<ref name="Hansard1989-05-11">{{cite web|url=http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/1989/pdfs/19890511.pdf|work=ACT Hansard|title=Assembly Debate|page=11|publisher=ACT Legislative Assembly|date=5 November 1989|accessdate=15 August 2010}}</ref> leading the Liberal Party. The life of the first Assembly was characterised by a hung parliament and significant political instability.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/act/content/2006/s2566353.htm|work=Stateline|title=20 Years of Self Government|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=14 August 2010}}</ref> Confidence was waning in the minority Follett Labor government. On 5 December 1989, Bernard Collaery, leader of the Residents Rally group (with four members in the Assembly) moved the following motion in the Assembly:<ref name="Hansard1989-12-05">{{cite web|url=http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/1989/pdfs/19891205.pdf|work=ACT Hansard|title=Assembly Debate|pages=2987–2993|publisher=ACT Legislative Assembly|accessdate=14 August 2010}}</ref> :''That this Assembly no longer has confidence in the Chief Minister of the ACT and the minority Labor Government and has confidence in the ability of Mr Kaine to form a government.'' The vote was resolved in the affirmative (10 votes to 7), and Kaine was elected as the second Chief Minister as leader of an Alliance Government, comprising members of both the Liberal Party and some (but not all) members of the Residents Rally in the Assembly. {{citation needed|date=October 2014}}

On 29 May 1991, Kaine announced to the Assembly that members of the Residents Rally had met the previous evening and decided to dissolve the Alliance, due to an internal split in the Rally party, where two of the four members chose to align themselves with the Kaine government. The remaining two members chose to not align themselves with the Kaine government.<ref name="Hansard1991-05-29">{{cite web|url=http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/1991/pdfs/19910529.pdf |work=ACT Hansard|title=Assembly Debate|pages=2125, 2134–37|publisher=ACT Legislative Assembly|accessdate=14 August 2010}}</ref> On 6 June 1991, a motion of no confidence in Kaine, as Chief Minister, was passed. The Follett Labor government resumed power, and Kaine again became Leader of the Opposition. {{citation needed|date=October 2014}}

The ACT Liberal Party lost the 1992 election, again, with a hung parliament. Kaine continued as Leader of the Opposition. In 1993, Kate Carnell took over leadership of the Liberal Party. Kaine stayed on with the Liberal Party after losing the leadership, and was appointed Urban Services Minister when the party won the 1995 election under Carnell. At the 1995 election, three multi-member electorates were created, and Kaine was one of the five representatives of the Brindabella electorate. Kaine was re-elected at the 1998 election. However, on 13 May 1998, he resigned from the Liberal Party and on 28 May 1998, announced his intention to form a party called ''Canberra Liberals''. On 30 July 1998, the United Canberra Party was registered. The party was deregistered on 30 June 2001, and Kaine unsuccessfully contested the 2001 ACT election as an independent candidate.<ref name="ACTLA"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn15.htm|title=Australian Capital Territory Election 2001|accessdate=15 February 2002|publisher=Parliament of Australia|work=Parliamentary Library Research Note 15 2001-02|author=Bennett, Scott|date=9 September 2005|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020227042056/http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn15.htm|archivedate=27 February 2002|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/elections/act/2004/guide/independents.htm|title=Independents Analysis|accessdate=9 September 2005|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|work=ACT Election Guide|author=Uhlmann, Chris|year=2004}}</ref>

==Life after politics== Trevor Kaine died on 3 June 2008, aged 80, after a long illness following a stroke he had suffered four years earlier. He was the first ACT Chief Minister to die.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/04/2264903.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612152014/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/04/2264903.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 June 2008|title=Tributes flow for former chief minister Kaine|accessdate=20 October 2014|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|work=ABC News}}</ref>

==See also== * Kaine Ministry

==References== {{Reflist|2}}

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050716074009/http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/item.asp?sdID=124 ACT Proportional Representation (Hare-Clark) Entrenchment Act 1994 ACT]; accessed 9 September 2005.

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