Kenneth Edward Vowles (born 29 September 1971) is an Australian politician and former cricketer from the Northern Territory.
[2] In 2008, Vowles contested the seat of Blain as a Labor Party candidate at that year's Territory general election, although he was defeated by Terry Mills, the future Chief Minister.
He nominated to contest the seat of Johnston in the 2012 election, although a controversy emerged when the Labor Party threatened the Northern Territory News with legal action to prevent the newspaper from publishing a story about Vowles' spent assault conviction from a fight in 1992 (Labor leader Paul Henderson had previously been critical of another candidate for not disclosing a manslaughter conviction).
[3] Vowles was elected as member for Johnston, although the Henderson government was defeated by the Country Liberal Party.
[4] After two years as a minister, Vowles was sacked and excluded from the Labor caucus, along with two backbench colleagues who held similar views about the Territory’s budget deficit, on 21 December 2018.