1. Wayne Maxwell Swan was born on 30 June 1954 and is an Australian politician serving as the 25th and current National President of the Labor Party since 2018, previously serving as the 14th deputy prime minister of Australia and the deputy leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013, and the treasurer of Australia from 2007 to 2013.
Wayne Swan regained the seat in 1998 and represented it until retiring in 2019.
In 2010, after Julia Gillard became Prime Minister, Wayne Swan was elected unopposed as Labor's deputy leader and was sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister.
In 2011, Wayne Swan was named Finance Minister of the Year by Euromoney magazine, joining Paul Keating as the only Australian Treasurer to have been awarded that title.
Wayne Swan attended Nambour State High School and graduated in 1972.
Wayne Swan won a Commonwealth scholarship to study Public Administration at the University of Queensland, where he resided at Emmanuel College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts.
From 1978 to 1980, Wayne Swan acted as a policy adviser to Labor Leader Bill Hayden, and from 1983 to 1984 was an adviser to Government Ministers Mick Young and Kim Beazley.
Wayne Swan later worked as the State Secretary of the Queensland Labor Party from 1991 to 1993.
Wayne Swan was first elected as the Member for Lilley in the 1993 federal election, but was defeated three years later by Elizabeth Grace in what was a large defeat for Labor nationwide.
Wayne Swan worked as an adviser to Labor Leader Kim Beazley before contesting Lilley again in the 1998 federal election and regaining the seat.
Early in the role, Wayne Swan worked to devise Labor's response to the Howard government's 2006 budget, with Labor proposing tax relief for low- and middle-income earners.
Wayne Swan launched his book during the same month, Postcode: The Splintering of a Nation.
Rudd gave a speech to students, in which he said that, while at school, "Wayne Swan was very, very cool; and I was very, very not".
On 20 September 2011, Wayne Swan was named Finance Minister of the Year by Euromoney magazine, joining Paul Keating as the only Australian Treasurer to have been conferred that title.
In March 2012, Wayne Swan became the first treasurer or deputy prime minister to be ejected from the House of Representatives, after he referred to Andrew Robb, the then-opposition finance spokesperson, as "Curly", in reference to The Three Stooges.
Wayne Swan stood to fill the vacant position of Deputy Leader, and was elected unopposed.
Wayne Swan was sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia later that day.
Days later, Wayne Swan attended the G20 Toronto Summit in Gillard's place.
Wayne Swan resigned from his positions to return to the backbench following the return of Kevin Rudd to the leadership in June 2013.
Wayne Swan donated his personal collection of records to the State Library of Queensland's John Oxley Library.
In June 2018, Wayne Swan was elected national president of the ALP, defeating incumbent president Mark Butler.
Wayne Swan was re-elected to a further term as president in April 2023.
Wayne Swan replaced former Victorian premier Steve Bracks in the role.
Wayne Swan was called to give testimony on the matter before the Senate Economics Committee, during which he publicly apologised for the delays in payments of claims.
At age 48, Wayne Swan was diagnosed with prostate cancer but has since fully recovered.
Wayne Swan has become an advocate for the prostate cancer public awareness campaign.