_Aoyment, Workplace Relations and Small Business. In 2003, Abbott became Minister for Health _and &el% retaining this position until the defeat of the Howard Government at the 2007 election. Initially serving in the shadow cabinets of Brendan Nelson and then Malcolm Turnbull, Abbott reijned from the front beiCh in

Australian republicP33.1 a bill of rights, the re-formation of an Indigenous peak representative body similar to ATSIC, (which had been abolished by the Howard Government), the introduction of an Emissions Trading Scheme and a National Disabiliy Insurance Sceme, and a _ _b _ _ review of the taxation system Ridi

oyment, Workplace Relations and Small Business. In 2003, Abbott became Minister for Health and Ageing, retaining this position until the defeat of the Howard Government at the 2007 election. Initially serving in the shadow cabinets of Brendan Nelson and then Malcolm Turnbull, Abbott resigned from the front bench in

ome the leader of the Labor Party, thus becoming Leader of the Opposition. Rudd led Labor to a landslide victory at the , 2007 election, defeating the Howard Government. The It Rudd_ Qovernment's earliest acts included action on dim to change through ratification of the Kyoto Protocol an ering the first national