Kevin Hogan (politician)

Hogan was born in Port Augusta in regional South Australia. After completing a Bachelor of Economics degree at Flinders University,^{[citation needed]} he began a career in finance. He moved to Sydney and worked for an official money market dealer, GIO Securities, dealing with the Reserve Bank of Australia on a daily basis.^{[citation needed]} Hogan then went on to work with Colonial First State for ten years. In this role he managed a multibillion-dollar portfolio and appeared on Sky News Australia every morning giving an economic update. He was also for a period an Investment Officer for an Industry Super Fund.

Hogan married his wife Karen they returned to Karen's home town of Lismore.

He then operated his own consultancy business and runs a small cattle property outside Lismore.^{[citation needed]}

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Hogan ran as the Nationals candidate for the Division of Page at the 2010 election, but was defeated by the incumbent Australian Labor Party candidate Janelle Saffin. He re-contested the bellwether seat at the 2013 election. He secured a two-party-preferred swing of 6.7 points^[1] – almost twice the national average of 3.6 points, finishing with a margin of 2.5 points. He was re-elected at the 2016 election with a margin of 2.3%.

On 26 March 2018, the House of Representatives elected Hogan as Deputy Speaker.^[2]

Following Peter Dutton's unsuccessful attempt to oust Malcolm Turnbull as leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister, Hogan announced that he would move to the crossbench if the Liberals called for another spill before the next election.^[3] He made good on his promise on 24 August, when Turnbull resigned the leadership rather than face a second spill, which resulted in Scott Morrison becoming prime minister. Hogan called himself an "Independent National"; while he sat on the crossbench, he continued to support the Coalition on confidence and supply matters, and remained in the National party room.^[4] Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said that Hogan remained a member of the Nationals in good standing. McCormack also stated that Hogan would have the Nationals' full support if he sought re-election as a National at the next federal election.^[5]

Hogan sought re-election as a National in 2019, and was re-elected with a healthy swing of seven percent, enough to technically make Page a safe National seat. In a statement published on his own website on 21 May 2019, Hogan announced that he was returning to the Coalition benches, saying that he was satisfied that rule changes in the Liberal Party to discourage challenges to sitting prime ministers would end the instability that had caused him to withdraw from the Coalition in protest, and that the recent election results showed that the public wanted a Coalition government.^[6]

In February 2020, Hogan was promoted to the Morrison Ministry as the Assistant Minister to the Deputy Prime Minister.^[7][8]

In the 2022 election, Hogan was returned for a fourth term. Despite the swing against the Coalition, Hogan had a 1.3% swing to him winning the seat of Page with a 10.7% margin. This was the first time Page was held by a member of the Opposition since 1987.

Hogan was appointed Shadow Minister for Trade and Tourism and Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in June 2022.

Hogan was re-elected in 2025 with a margin of 9.3% and was elected Deputy Leader of the Nationals Party at the party's 2025 post-election leadership spill.^[9]

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