The Shadow Ministry of Kim Beazley was the opposition Australian Labor Party shadow ministry of Australia from 19 March 1996 to November 2001, opposing John Howard's Coalition ministry. The shadow cabinet is a group of senior Opposition spokespeople who form an alternative Cabinet to the government's, whose members shadow or mark each individual Minister or portfolio of the Government. Kim Beazley became Leader of the Opposition upon his election as leader of the Australian Labor Party on 19 March 1996, and appointed his first Shadow Cabinet.