After Crean's resignation, Beazley and the Labor Party's Treasury spokesperson, Mark Latham, announced that they would contest the Labor leadership.

After the ballot, Beazley announced that he would remain in politics as a backbench member and would recontest his seat at the 2004 election.

But after Latham resigned as leader on 18 January 2005, Beazley announced he would contest the leadership, saying that he was " absolutely fired with ambition ".

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

On 1 December, Beazley announced not only a leadership election but also that all frontbench positions within the Parliamentary Labor Party would be made vacant.

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.

Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Kevin Rudd, and Shadow Minister for Health, Julia Gillard, announced their intentions to run against Beazley and Macklin as a team for the positions of leader and deputy leader respectively of the party.

After the Tampa affair, and the declaration of the War on Terrorism, in 2001 Kim Beazley announced that the Australian Labor Party, if in government, would establish an Australian Coast Guard " responsible for conducting Australia's coastal surveillance and meeting Australia's maritime protection needs, including in relation to illegal immigration, drugs, fisheries, and quarantine-related issues ".

In January 2011 British Fencing announced a five year sponsorship deal worth £ 1million with Beazley Group, the specialist Lloyd ’ s insurer.

Kim Beazley in November 2005 declaring Labor would " oppose the Howard Government's WorkChoices | industrial relations legislation in every respect, at every stage until the Australian federal election, 2007 | next election ".

While Beazley admitted that winning an election was difficult, he was adamant that the 2007 election would be a " referendum on the Howard Government's unfair industrial relations laws ".

Following the ballot, Beazley said of his political future, " For me to do anything further in the Australian Labor Party I would say is Lazarus with a quadruple bypass.

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.

Beazley said polling a year before the election indicated the ALP would lose " 25 – 30 seats " in the House of Representatives.

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.

McClelland called Stone who advised him to vote for Latham as " Putting Beazley back in again would be like putting me into a first-grade team again.

Remaining as deputy leader under Kim Beazley, Macklin became the first person to be deputy to three leaders of the ALP since Frank Forde.

Peter Reith criticised Beazley for stating that an Australian Coast Guard both will and will not be an " answer to the question of people smuggling ".

Kim Beazley, then the Minister for Transport and Communications, said that the changes were designed to limit corruption, and prevent donors to political parties from exerting undue influence, by restricting the amount of political advertising that could be broadcast.

Casts of the frieze may be found in the Beazley archive at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, at the Spurlock Museum in Urbana, in the Skulpturhalle at Basel and elsewhere.

Beazley will be the principal sponsor – as well as the official insurer-of British Fencing until the end of 2015, building a lasting legacy in the sport.

Through most of 2003, consistently poor polling led to constant speculation of a leadership challenge by Beazley, though a reasonably successful Budget reply speech and the controversy over Peter Hollingworth gave Crean a small boost in popularity.

Crean retained this position when Beazley returned to the leadership in January 2005.

Beazley resigned the Labor leadership after the election and was succeeded by Simon Crean.

Crean's opponents persuaded Beazley to attempt a return to the leadership by challenging Crean.

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 ".

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.

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.

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

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

At the 1996 federal election, the Keating government lost office and, following Paul Keating's resignation of the leadership, Kim Beazley, a Western Australian, became the new Leader of the Opposition.

On 1 December 2006, Macklin's position as deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party came under threat after Kim Beazley called for a spill of all the leadership positions in a bid to end growing speculation over the issue.

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.

In the second leadership spill in December 2003, Tanner supported Beazley, who lost the party-room ballot to Mark Latham.

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.

He vocally spoke out against Kim Beazley, when he attempted to regain the leadership from former leader Simon Crean in 2003, again when Beazley contested the leadership with Mark Latham in December 2003, and again in 2005, when Beazley reassumed the leadership following Latham's retirement.

After leading the first expedition, Sam Freeman did not return and Reg Beazley became party leader of the second expedition, with Pontey Seale mining engineer, Bill MacGregor and Beazley prospectors and recruiters, and Ernie Shepherd in charge of transport and supplies, prospecting when opportunity arose.

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.

Beazley, however, quickly made up ground on Howard as the Coalition's poll numbers sagged, particularly when Howard broke his previous promise not to introduce a Goods and Services Tax ( GST ).

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.

Beazley was re-elected as federal Labor Leader when the Labor Caucus met on 28 January 2005 following the withdrawal of the other potential candidates, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.

* The reference book " Attic Black-figure Vase-Painters " of John Beazley ( commonly used when the subject is Attic Black-figure Vases )

Supreme Court Justices Carolyn Simpson, Margaret Beazley and Virginia Bell made headlines in April 1999 when the three sat in the Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney.