John Faulkner

John Philip Faulkner (born 12 April 1954) is an Australian former Labor Party politician who served as a Senator for New South Wales from 1989 to 2015. He held several Cabinet positions in the Keating, Rudd, and Gillard governments, including Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Science and Personnel in 1993, and Minister for the Environment from 1994 to 1996. Faulkner also served as the Leader of the Labor Party in the Senate from 1996 to 2005. In 2007, he was appointed Vice-President of the Executive Council and Special Minister of State. Faulkner retired from frontline politics in 2010 and resigned from Parliament in 2015.