Mitchell Beazley has marketed the New Joy with the subtitle " a thinking person's guide to sex ".

After Labor's defeat in the October 2004 federal election, at which he became the longest-serving Labor member of the Parliament, Beazley again returned to the backbench, saying " my time as leader of the Labor Party has come and gone, it's over for me as far as leadership is concerned ".

While the Right has dominated Federally since the 1950s, the gradual shift of the paradigm of economic policy within Australia towards the Right, particularly since the 1970s, has led to the situation where past leaders of the Right, such as Ben Chifley, would now be considered in the Socialist Left ; especially in comparison to more recent Right leaders such as Paul Keating, Kim Beazley and Kevin Rudd.

According to My Gorgeous Life, and statements Edna has made over the years, she was born Edna May Beazley in the city of Wagga Wagga, with a sibling who would give birth to Barry McKenzie.

One of Smith's routines has been set to music by Mark Beazley, aka Rothko, for a CD curated by comedian and writer Stewart Lee.

Tanner has been a prominent member of Labor's left faction and it was thought that he might contest the Labor leadership in 2002, when former leader Kim Beazley first challenged Simon Crean.

He has also written the biographies of former Australian Labor Party leader Kim Beazley, Wallaby captains, Nick Farr-Jones and John Eales, WWII resistance fighter Nancy Wake and sportsmen Steve Waugh and Les Darcy.

Ellis, a supporter of the Australian Labor Party, has written speeches for a number of Labor leaders ( such as Bob Carr, Paul Keating and Kim Beazley ), and written extensively on Labor history.

Starting with the studies by John D. Beazley and Arthur Dale Trendall, the study of this style of art has made enormous progress.

No other archaeologist has ever had as formative an influence on a whole subdiscipline as had Beazley on the study of Greek vase painting.

For the study of South Italian case painting, Arthur Dale Trendall's work has a similar significance to that of Beazley for Attica.

The name Kleophrades painter, given him in 1910 by classicist John Beazley, arises from a potter's inscription Kleophrades on a cup now in the Cabinet des Medailles, Paris ; after having had this designation for some time, scholars discovered a pelike, now in Berlin, which has the painter's name Epiktetos inscribed on it, and the painter was for a time designated Epiktetos II, distinguishing him from a contemporary painter of the same name.

The Beazley Archive has 227 vases either attributed to, near, or compared with the Kleophrades painter, and of these 227, 113 are directly attributed to this great painter, although aside from the potter's name on the one pelike, his name is not found anywhere.

There has been a theatre with this name in the locality since 1765, and the present site opened on 14 July 1834 to a design by Samuel Beazley.

In June 2004 Beazley battled claims he had a " special relationship " with Ratih Harjono when he was Defence Minister ; it was alleged this relationship posed a security risk.

Referring to widespread doubt that Labor could win the 2007 election under a leader who had already lost two elections, Beazley said: " There's no doubt in my mind that I can lead a winning team in the next election.

Latham's abuse resulted mainly from two allegations: firstly that Beazley had engaged in a prolonged campaign to undermine Latham in his positions as a frontbencher and as opposition leader and, secondly, that Beazley ( as leader ) had failed to provide support to Labor MP Greg Wilton, who later committed suicide.

Garrett revealed that he had been approached months before by senior ALP figures, including John Faulkner and Kim Beazley, and had taken this long to make up his mind.

Some commentators, including Kim Beazley, said Latham's leadership had rescued Labor from a much heavier defeat.

Fremantle is a safe Labor seat which had once been held by Labor Prime Minister John Curtin, and later, Whitlam-era Education Minister Kim Beazley senior.

On 6 October, he proposed a bipartisan condemnation of her statements along lines already suggested by Labor Opposition leader Kim Beazley, saying that politicians had an obligation to show leadership on the issue.

In August 2006, Tuckey had a public argument with Labor leader Kim Beazley over new immigration laws, ending with Tuckey calling Beazley a " fat so and so ".

In regards to Ellis ' speech writing, Beazley had said on the 7. 30 Report that if he had used any of Ellis ' speeches he would have been out of politics.

No other archaeologist had such a decisive influence on the research of an archaeological field as did Beazley, whose analyses remain valid to a large extent up to the present time.

Upon her retirement from politics, Kim Beazley, who had been Minister for Defence in the Hawke government until 1990 and had several portfolios before becoming Deputy Prime Minister to Paul Keating in 1995, was preselected for the seat following 16 years as member for the marginal seat of Swan which polling suggested the party was certain to lose.

Beazley began to study the vases from about 1910 onwards, inspired by the methodology that the art historian Giovanni Morelli had developed for the study of paintings.

In 1919, Beazley married the widow Marie Ezra ( née Bloomfield ), whose first husband had been killed in World War One.

During World War One, Beazley served in military intelligence.

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

Polls continued to suggest that the public much preferred Beazley to Crean ; nevertheless, when the vote was taken on 16 June 2003, Crean won by 58 votes to 34.

* E. Beazley ; Madocks and the Wonder of Wales, 1967

* Beazley, C. R., Dawn of Modern Geography, ii. 15, 352 ; iii. 12, 189-190, 539-541.

Other high-profile members were Kim Beazley ( senior ), a minister in the Whitlam government ; John Dawkins, a minister in the Hawke and Keating governments ; and Carmen Lawrence, the former Premier of Western Australia and a minister in the Keating government.

Others who spoke at the service included: John Howard, Australian Prime Minister ; Kim Beazley, Leader of the Opposition ; and, Imron Cotan, Indonesian Ambassador to Australia.

Beazley was drilling test sites for oil with Matahower in the lower Sepik and he and McGregor recruited labour on the Sepik and explored grass country to Wee Wak.

Beazley also prospected the Arrabundio for gold and on his promising report to Freeman, Akmana Gold Prospecting Coy was floated in 1928.

He faced a preselection challenge for his seat from Martin Pakula, a member of his former union, a move which he blamed on Beazley, Hong Lim, and the Labor Right.

Following the defeat of Kim Beazley and election of Kevin Rudd as Federal Labor leader in December 2006, Crean was reappointed as Shadow Trade Minister and also retained responsibility for regional development.

His father, Kim Beazley Snr, was the Labor MP for Fremantle from 1945 to 1977 and education minister in the Whitlam Government ( 1972 – 75 ).

Beazley became a protege of Bob Hawke, Labor leader from 1983, and in that year he was appointed Minister for Aviation in Hawke's first ministry.

Beazley was then Minister for Transport and Communications ( 1990 – 91 ), Finance ( 1991 ), Employment, Education and Training ( 1991 – 93 ), and Finance again ( 1993 – 96 ).

Beazley advocated " minimalist " change and described transition to a republic as " unfinished business " for Australia.

In July 2004, however, Latham arranged for Beazley to return to the Labor front bench as Shadow Defence Minister.

Labor hoped that Beazley could follow a similar course to John Howard, who failed in his first term as Opposition Leader but returned in 1995 for a second term and then won the 1996 election.

This was confirmed in a forum on the SBS Insight television program on 2 May 2006, which specifically dealt with the Labor Party's political struggles, where some community members voiced their concerns about being disillusioned with Kim Beazley, and a lack of understanding of the values and policies for which he and the party stood.

According to media reports, the New South Wales Right faction promised its support to Rudd for leadership so long as he challenged Beazley before Christmas.

On 30 November 2006 Rudd met with Beazley and announced his intention to challenge for the leadership.

Beazley announced on 13 December 2006 that he would not stand for re-election at the 2007 federal election and that he would retire from Parliament after the election.

In 2009, Beazley was appointed a Companion in the Order of Australia ( AC ) for his service to the Australian parliament.

When Crean resigned the Labor leadership, Latham contested the ballot for leader against Beazley.

Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard were early contenders for the leadership, but both withdrew in favour of Beazley and Latham respectively.

In July 2004 Beazley himself was re-elected to the ALP front bench as Shadow Minister for Defence.

There was little support for a return to Beazley, and neither Tanner nor McMullan were seen as viable leadership candidates.

Opinion polls in January showed a sharp decline in Latham's support and a preference for the return of Beazley as Labor leader.