13 Facts About Trevor Kaine

Trevor Thomas Kaine was an Australian politician who served as the first male Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 1989 to 1991.

Trevor Kaine was born in the town of Penguin in Tasmania, and was educated in Victoria and Queensland.

Trevor Kaine moved to Canberra in the 1950s whilst stationed with the Royal Australian Air Force.

Trevor 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.

Trevor Kaine 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, leading the Liberal Party.

The vote was resolved in the affirmative, and Trevor Kaine was elected as the second Chief Minister as leader of an Alliance Government, comprising members of both the Liberal Party and some members of the Residents Rally in the Assembly.

On 29 May 1991, Trevor 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 Trevor Kaine government.

The Follett Labor government resumed power, and Trevor Kaine again became Leader of the Opposition.

Trevor 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 Trevor Kaine was one of the five representatives of the Brindabella electorate.

The party was deregistered on 30 June 2001, and Trevor Kaine unsuccessfully contested the 2001 ACT election as an independent candidate.

Trevor Kaine died on 3 June 2008, aged 80, after a long illness following a stroke he had suffered four years earlier.

Trevor Kaine was the first ACT Chief Minister to die.