When John Hewson called a spill for the Liberal leadership in 1994, Bishop found that her colleagues did not share her opinion of her leadership potential, and Alexander Downer successfully challenged for the party leadership.

Pre-Slowdive, Savill was in a band called Eternal, which also included Monster Movie member Sean Hewson.

After winning leadership of the ailing Liberal Party, Hewson launched a comprehensive package of proposed reforms called Fightback!

May Skinner ( nee Blanchflower ) ( Julia Deakin and Sherrie Hewson ) Buffet Manageress-She had a passionate affair with Cecil Parkin before she married Jack, which ended when Parkin was called up to serve in the Army.

Hewson were eventually bought out by 21st Century Entertainment in 1991, but left behind a legacy that includes more than a fair share of classic 8-bit and 16-bit titles.

Unable to sustain a protracted legal wrangle, Hewson eventually settled with Telecomsoft out of court and parted company with Graftgold.

The " birthday cake interview " was a famous political interview in Australia that was carried out between interviewer Mike Willesee and Liberal Party Opposition Leader Dr. John Hewson shortly before the 1993 federal election.

The Parliamentarian commander John Hewson in the winter of 1650-51, led punitive columns into the midlands and the Wicklow mountains to try and root out the tory bands and although they captured a number of small castles and killed several hundred guerrillas, they were not able to stop the tories ' attacks.

English Sergeant-Major Hewson, had arrived on the ground, summoned by a native officer, before Baugh.

Hewson had charged towards Pandey as he was fighting with Lieutenant Baugh.

He backed away in one direction and Baugh and Hewson in another, while being struck with the butt ends of the guards ' muskets.

In July 2006, Hewson gave an interview to ABC's Four Corners program in which he voiced concern at the growing influence of what he characterised as a " hardline right religious element " in the NSW branch of the Liberal Party.

The call to give equivalent broadcast time on the ABC to a " right wing Phillip Adams " began with John Hewson in 1993.

: Hewson: " That's right, now that's the difficulty-that's what I'm addressing in the question.

According to Channel 9's 20 to 1 episode " Unscripted and Unplanned ", it was the moment Hewson lost the election ; the interview was held 10 days before the election, and polls right up to election day predicted a Coalition victory.

Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer, KBE ( 3 December 19061 May 1974 ), was an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine Network.

In 1993 Fraser made a bid for the Liberal Party presidency but withdrew at the last minute following opposition to his bid due to Fraser being critical of then Liberal leader John Hewson for losing the election earlier that year.

John Hewson credited himself with " returning Gorton to the fold " In March 1983, he congratulated Bob Hawke " for rolling that bastard Fraser ".

When Prime Minister Malcom Fraser lost in March 1983, The Liberals were in opposition for the first time since 1975, with intally Andrew Peacock as opposition leader ( 1983 – 85 ), then John Howard ( 1985 – 89 ), then Andrew Peacock again ( 1989-1990 ), and then John Hewson.

Returning to Australia, Hewson worked as an economist for the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Hewson was elected at the 1987 election to the House of Representatives for the affluent Sydney electorate of Wentworth prior to his election he was told he would have to give up his ferrai to get pre selected he did not.

But this concession opened Hewson to charges of weakness and inconsistency, and also complicated the arithmetic of the whole package, since the weakening of the GST reduced the scope for tax cuts, the most attractive element of the package for middle-class voters.

Hewson was defeated by Keating at the 1993 election, losing what many had described as " the unloseable election " for the Liberals.

In 1993 Hewson in Parliament declared directely to Paul Keating that the passing of the Mabo act would be a day of shame for Australia.

In May 1994, Hewson was surprised by opinion poll finding on an episode of Lateline titled John Hewson " s Liberal party, later that month he attempted to quell leadership speculation in general by calling a leadership ballot for the 23rd May 1994, but he lost the vote and the leadership to Alexander Downer.

Several days later Hewson joined Alexander Downer's ministry as shadow minister for Industry, Commerce, Infrastructure and Customs, during August 1994 Downer dismissed him from the shadow ministry.

John Hewson held the position of chairman of the board of directors for the Elderslie Group, a company whose primary interests lie in the areas of corporate finance and property investments.

Hewson has repeatedly appeared in television interviews and on political panels and has been a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review since 2004.

For a time he was a plant manager for Pioneer Concrete before becoming press secretary to the Liberal Leader of the Opposition, Dr John Hewson from 1990 to 1993 and working on the Fightback!

Although she was comfortably elected, her campaign against John Hewson for the Liberal Party leadership faced a setback when she did not poll as well as expected against author and filmmaker Bob Ellis, who ran against Bishop as an independent candidate for Mackellar.

She was promoted again ( Shadow Minister for Senior Citizens and Aged Care and Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader on Women ’ s Affairs and the Arts ) under the leadership of John Hewson, but was demoted to a shadow parliamentary secretary position under Alexander Downer.

The official games for the unit are mostly a mix of Epyx and Hewson C64 games.

Peter Reith nominated for the Liberal party leadership ballot otherwise the opposition leadership after the Coalition lost the 1990 federal election, Reith lost to John Hewson 62 votes to 13.

In a public lecture given on 27 September 2005, political opponent Mark Latham accused Heffernan of engaging in the " politics of personal destruction ", and quoted John Hewson ( a former Liberal Party leader ) as saying that John Howard had used Heffernan to distribute dirt and to run his agenda against individuals " for almost as long as I have known him ".

Hewson / Graftgold were responsible for several well-received C64 titles including Paradroid and Uridium — made famous for their metallic bas-relief styled graphic effects and addictive gameplay.

Other appearances include: John Hewson in The Soufflé Rises ( series 1 ); Pat Cash in The Desert Angel ; Cheryl Kernot in We Ain't Got Dames ( series 1 ); Bert Newton ; Amanda Keller and Anne Fulwood in This Night of Nights ( series 1 ); Glenn Ridge in Add Sex and Stir and Office Mole ( series 2 ); Glenn Robbins and Molly Meldrum in Add Sex and Stir, George Negus in Add Sex and Stir and Dick on the Line ( series 3 ) and Ian Baker-Finch in A Hole in the Heart.

He went on to lead Labor to a record fifth consecutive victory at the 1993 election against the Liberal-National coalition led by John Hewson.

John Hewson was replaced as Liberal party leader by Alexander Downer after being defeated at a leadership spill in May 1994.

* Hewson, Nigel R. ( 2003 ).

The station is located at the intersection of West Prospect Street, Lafayette Place and Hewson Avenue.

In the 1630s he was apprenticed to John Hewson, who introduced him to the Puritan physician John Bastwick, an active pamphleteer against Episcopacy who was persecuted by Archbishop William Laud.

( 1996 – 1997 ), where she played the role of May Skinner, replacing Sherrie Hewson from the original pilot.

* 1993: Birthday Cake Interview-an interview of Dr. John Hewson that contributed to the defeat of his party in the 1993 Australian federal election

* Hewson, John.

A book by David Hewson details the entire episode.

He became Shadow Attorney-General ( 1990 – 92 ) and Shadow Trade Minister ( 1992 – 93 ) under the new leader, Dr John Hewson.

He returned to Foreign Affairs when Hewson lost the 1993 election to Keating.

He retained Foreign Affairs when Hewson was displaced by Alexander Downer.

* Richard Anthony Hewson Musician, ( b. 1943 ).

Several months after becoming leader Downer's support base was quickly eroded, however, by a series of embarrassing public blunders, one such incident was the sacking of John Hewson from the shadow ministry in August 1994.

Downer negotiated in mid-January with now back-bencher Hewson, but this resulted in Hewson publicly declaring he wanted the shadow Treasury portfolio, which was held by Downer's deputy, Peter Costello.

* The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions-Monograph on the Kondo effect by A. C. Hewson ( ISBN 0-521-59947-4 )

John Robert Hewson AM ( born 28 October 1946 ) is an Australian economist, company director and a former politician.

Hewson was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of a working-class, politically conservative engineer.

After the defeat of the Fraser government at the 1983 election, Hewson went into business journalism and became a director of a private bank, the Macquarie Bank.