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1983-1990: Bob Hawke (Labor) 1990-1992: Andrew Peacock (Liberal) 1992-1993: John Howard (Liberal) 1993-2001: Paul Keating (Labor) 2001-2008: Bronwyn Bishop (Liberal) 2008-2012: Joe Hockey (Liberal) 2012-2015: Simon Crean (Labor) 2015-2021: Christopher Pyne (Liberal) 2021-: Tanya Plibersek (Labor)

A very well-regarded choice, a pioneering businesswoman who’d been CEO of one of the most innovative companies in America.

Cabinet of Betsy DeVos, 2009: President: Betsy DeVos (R-MI) Vice President: Charlie Crist (R-FL) Secretary of State: John Huntsman (R-UT) Secretary of the Treasury: Rebecca Mark (R-TX) (res. 2010) Glenn Hubbard (R-NY) Secretary of Defense: Eric Edelman (R-MD) Attorney General: James Comey...

Cabinet of Ed Rendell, 2008: President: Bill Richardson (D-NM) Vice President: Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Secretary of State: Sam Nunn (D-GA) Secretary of the Treasury: John Corzine (D-NJ) Secretary of Defense: Togo West Jr. (D-NC) Attorney General: Carol Browner (D-FL) (res. 2008) Deval Patrick...

This is inspired, nice work.

Thanks, I hate it, and I love it, and I have a headache

That was some rather chilling fun, one of those lists that's fantastical but feels plausible at the same time.

Liked the Veep references too.

Hello everyone and welcome to the Sixth HoS List Challenge! This challenge was fun but it's been dormant for a few months and this is an attempt to revive it. Credit to Venocora setting up a fun idea. They set up the rules well so I will simply quote theirs: The theme for this month's...

Cabinet of Bill Richardson, 2005: President: Bill Richardson (D-NM) Vice President: Ed Rendell (D-PA) Secretary of State: Sam Nunn (D-GA) Secretary of the Treasury: John Corzine (D-NJ) Secretary of Defense: Togo West Jr. (D-NC) Attorney General: Carol Browner (D-FL) Secretary of Agriculture...

METRIC MILE This is all brilliant, Indicus. I’m really enjoying this series. A lot of inspired worldbuilding about things that we take for granted but would undoubtedly be very different.

Cabinet of Pete Wilson, 1997: President: Pete Wilson (R-CA) Vice President: Rick Santorum (R-PA) Secretary of State: Dick Cheney (R-WY) Secretary of the Treasury: Phil Gramm (R-TX) Secretary of Defense: Jim Webb (R-VA) Attorney General: Dan Lundgren (R-CA) Secretary of the Interior: James V...

As Elektronaut just said, this isn't really much of an AHC. My reading of contemporary accounts of the Romney '68 campaign is that his campaign was already falling to pieces by the time of the "brainwashing" remark; Jim Rhodes famously remarked that “watching George Romney run for the...

Hillary Clinton nearly being taken out by a stagelight just before the 1992 New Hampshire Primary is the first one which comes to mind. Another is Gorbachev's house arrest during the '91 coup, all it would take is the man being a bit irate and one of the armed guards being a bit more jittery...

Yeah, without Sanders' (easily butterflied away) 2016 candidacy you just don't get AOC and the likes.