Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

The deputy prime minister of Australia is the deputy chief executive and the second highest ranking officer of the Australian Government. The office of deputy prime minister was officially created as a ministerial portfolio in 1968, although the title had been used informally for many years previously. The deputy prime minister is appointed by the governor-general on the advice of the prime minister. When Australia has a Labor government, the deputy leader of the parliamentary party holds the position of deputy prime minister. When Australia has a Coalition government, the Coalition Agreement mandates that all Coalition members support the leader of the Liberal Party becoming prime minister and the leader of the National Party becoming the deputy prime minister.

14 December 1948

Born on the same birth date (14 December 1948): Boudewijn Büch • Dee Wallace • Lester Bangs • Peeter Kreitzberg

Born on the same birth day (14 December): Andrei Makrov • Aphra Behn • Ben Henry • Ben Kay • Dan Dailey • Dave Nilsson • DeFord Bailey • Jaun Elia • John Brown (basketball, born 1951) • Karan Armstrong • Ken Hill (baseball) • Leanne Mitchell • Lester Bangs • Morey Amsterdam • Nonami Takizawa • Patty Schnyder • Paul Éluard • Steve MacLean (astronaut) • Tycho Brahe • Vijay Amritraj • Wade Davis (anthropologist) • Zdeněk Pospěch

Born in the same month (December 1948): Alan Parsons • Barbara Mandrell • Candy Crowley • Charlie Scott (basketball) • Colin Todd • Dee Wallace • Dušan Bajević • George T. Johnson • Jacky Clark Chisholm • Jan Hrubý • Jasuben Shilpi • Jeff Baxter • Jessica Cleaves • John Waters (actor) • Keke Rosberg • Marleen Gorris • Patricia Hewitt • Peeter Kreitzberg • Peter Robinson (Northern Ireland politician) • Sarfraz Nawaz • T. C. Boyle • Valery Belousov