Minister for Defence | |
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Department of Defence | |
Style | The Honourable (formal) Minister (spoken) |
Member of | Parliament Cabinet Federal Executive Council National Security Committee |
Seat | Canberra |
Appointer | Governor-General on the advice the prime minister |
Term length | At the Governor-General's pleasure |
Formation | 1 January 1901 |
First holder | James Dickson |
Salary | $364,406[1] |
Website | www |
The minister for Defence, also known as the Defence minister, is the minister of state of the Commonwealth of Australia charged with overseeing the organisation, implementation, and formulation of strategic policy in defence and military matters as the head of the Department of Defence. The Defence minister directs the government’s approach to the Australian Defence Organisation and the Australian Defence Force.[2] The current Defence minister is Richard Marles, who is concurrently serving as deputy prime minister of Australia, he was selected by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in May 2022 following the 2022 Australian federal election.[3]
As the Minister for Defence is responsible for the executive management of Australia's defence and military forces and the portfolio's accountability to the Parliament, the Secretary of Defence is required under section 63(1) of the Public Service Act 1999 and the Requirements for Annual Reports from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit to submit a report to the responsible ministers on the activities of the Department of Defence after the end of each financial year for presentation to the Parliament.[4][5]
It is one of only four ministerial positions (along with Prime Minister, Attorney-General and Treasurer) that have existed since Federation.[6]
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-Hugh White: Where we think that 2015 White Paper's going to take us? I guess is the first question. -Hugh White: Well, I made the point today that I don't, in terms, of the strategic environment, I don't think that it will be very different from the last Paper. There are some major strategic changes that have occurred, the behaviour Russia, the implosion in the Middle East, that are not the events that are going to result in significant change of policy or in terms of capability development. -Hugh White: Now look, I think, I think that's right. I think those very big and interesting events like in Russia and the Middle East and so on are important themselves but not very significant for what Australia thinks about its future defence capabilities. I guess my thought though would be about what's happening in Asia in particular the whole transformation of the major power relations, that that is going to have a big effect on our strategic environment. And that's probably the thing that we now need to be factoring into the way we think about our future defence capabilities and budgetary projections. -Robert Hill: Well, I'll just qualify that by saying that it's interesting that, you know, we're back in the Middle East. -Hugh White: Yes, yes. -Robert Hill: And we may be increasing our forces in the Middle East. So it's also important to design the force for the task that you're going to have rather than the task that you might, you might have. -Hugh White: Yes, although I'd, just to sort of turn that over, you know, we have been sending forces to the Middle East and achieving our strategic objectives in the Middle East, I would say, by drawing on the capabilities we've developed essentially for the defence of Australia over many decades now, and going all the way back to the first Iraq war in 91 and the various things we've done in the Middle East since then. I don't think we've ever found itself in a position where we couldn't do what government fell it needed to be able to do in order to achieve our strategic objectives in the Middle East from the forces we have developed for the defensive Australia. Whereas I think if Asia becomes more contested between major powers, we may find ourselves in a situation in which we can't do what governments think they'd want to be able to do. -Robert Hill: Well, just not wanting to argue the point, but what you say may be true in the historical sense, but if you look at the air capability that we've sent this time, it is a very modern capability, a self-supporting capability in ways that Australia never had in terms of the time. It can carry its own equipment, modern in-air refuellers, modern command-and-control aircraft. And that's really a capability that has been developed because of the belief that we may well be finding ourselves operating in an international force in issues such as this. But on Asia, yes? I don't think there's, there'd be much in the White Paper, that, well I think should qualify that. The White Paper will certainly, certainly recognize the territorial disputes that have heated up in recent years. It will express concerns that the nationalistic masculinity of China that is probably worrying will be, as far as the language will go. Having said all of that, in terms of response, I don't think it will lead to any significant change in policy or in capability. -Hugh White: Yeah, I suspect you're right. I think it probably should. But I but I don't think, but I doubt if it will. I mean guess, the other interesting angle is what it is or what it implies at least about Indonesia. We had Marty Natalegawa on the panel with us. So he was obviously a very fluent articulator of Indonesia views on these issues. But what do you, how do you think Indonesia's going to play out under the White Paper? Which things? -Robert Hill: I can't see anything that's likely to be in the White Paper that will be of any major concern to Indonesia. You know, we are going to upgrade our patrol boats. There's no secret about that. And they're really just replacing the ones that we have. We're upgrading our maritime surveillance aircraft, both to the P8s and probably the Triton unmanned -- Surveillance aircraft. But there won't be anything new in what they are actually doing. They'll just being a modern way of conducting surveillance of our EEZed area. -Hugh White: No, I'm sure, I'm sure that right. I think actually in a sense, just because some other issues a looming larger now than they did, in a sense, Indonesia looms less large now than it used to even they've been growing economically and, in the longer term I guess, will have bigger military capabilities as well. But I think in the longer term, there's likely to be a closer convergence of Indonesia and Australian strategic perspectives. In a sense the more contested the region becomes the stronger the issues in Australia and Indonesia have in common and further we're driven together. At least I hope that's what happens. -Robert Hill: I agree. I think that's a good thing and it was interesting that Marty picked it up. That we should think about ways in which we can help each other in terms out security needs. And, you know, we have done it in the past. Even in, even in my day, when I made the decision to re-engage Kopassus? in part because a capable Kopassus? was a security benefit to Australia who were then under threat of terrorist attack in Indonesia. And it sort of demonstrated to me that we've, we do have common, face common threats. And working together we can actually help each other. And I hope there's more of that in the future. -Hugh White: Yeah. That's right and often people look at the geographical proximity between Australia and Indonesia as a source of tensions in the relationship, and in a sense that's kind of obviously right. But it also is a sense of, it contributes to the converging strategic interests. Because we’re next-door neighbours, we both have an interest in the stability of the region which we share. And if there are threats to that, then that ought to be the basis for us to deepen our -- -Robert Hill: Yeah, so an Indonesia that succeeding, that's growing in a healthy way, the standards of living are rising, that is something that's in our interests. It's in our interest economically too because we've hardly scratched the potential for economic common benefit. So, you know, we've had some testy issues in recent times. But I hope that they'll be overtaken by time and we'll return to the trajectory that I think we were on a little while ago.
Defence policy
The primary function of the Minister for Defence is to direct the formulation of the government's defence policy relating to the universal conduct of any entity of the Australian Government, or working on behalf of the Australian Government, and the agencies and personnel of the Australian Defence Organisation as a whole. The Australian Government operates three principal entities responsible for creating and maintaining defence policy within the 'Defence' superstructure: the Air Power Development Centre, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and Sea Power Centre - Australia.[7] Additionally, the Australian Government, often at the direct request of the Prime Minister, will expend extensive introspective resources for the publication of Defence white papers so as to assess the current extent of Australia's defence capabilities and infrastructure and investigate the best manner of improving Defence in such a way that will positively inform the government's policy.[8]
The most recent white paper publication is the 2016 Defence White Paper that includes three elements: the 2016 Defence White Paper itself, 2016 Integrated Investment Program, and 2016 Defence Industry Policy Statement. Presented on 24 February 2016 and published the same day, it is the eighth defence whitepaper since 1976 and defined three key strategic objectives that the defence portfolios and governments of both parties have had little debate over. Recent Ministers for Defence for both political parties have typically formed their policy around the strict and professional advice of Australia's leading policy experts and senior military personnel and has generally caused little controversy.
Composition of the defence portfolio
Over the years there have been a number of ministers with a variety of functions involved in the defence portfolio; in the period November 1939 to April 1942, there was no position named "Minister of Defence". Instead, several ministers were responsible for the various tasks and duties that are presently under the purview of the Minister for Defence.
Previous governments have included ministers with titles using one or more of the following terms:
- Air
- Aircraft production
- Army
- Defence
- Defence Coordination
- Defence Industry
- Defence Materiel
- Defence Personnel
- Defence Production
- Defence Science
- Defence Support
- Development
- Munitions[9]
- Navy
- Repatriation
- Shipping
- Supply
- Veterans' Affairs
List of ministers for defence
There was a Minister for Defence from 1 January 1901 until 13 November 1939, with the exception of two small breaks. Robert Menzies, the Prime Minister, abolished the position on the outbreak of World War II and created separate Ministers for the Navy, the Army and the Air, with himself as Minister for Defence Coordination in his first ministry. He retained this position until the fall of his government, and then held the post in the brief government of Arthur Fadden. John Curtin initially followed the same arrangement as Menzies in his ministry until 14 April 1942, when he took the title of Minister for Defence. The separate titles of Ministers for the Navy, the Army and the Air were abolished in the second Whitlam Ministry on 30 November 1973, when the separate departments of Navy, Army and Air were also abolished. There had also been a separate Navy portfolio between 1915 and 1921.
The following have served as Minister for Defence:[10]
Order | Minister | Party | Prime Minister | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
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1 | Sir James Dickson KCMG MP | Protectionist | Barton | 1 January 1901 | 10 January 1901 | 9 days | |
2 | John Forrest CMG MP | Protectionist | Barton | 17 January 1901 | 10 August 1903 | 2 years, 205 days | |
3 | Senator James Drake | 10 August 1903 | 24 September 1903 | 45 days | |||
4 | Austin Chapman MP | Deakin | 24 September 1903 | 27 April 1904 | 216 days | ||
5 | Senator Anderson Dawson | Labor | Watson | 27 April 1904 | 18 August 1904 | 113 days | |
6 | James McCay MP | Protectionist | Reid | 18 August 1904 | 5 July 1905 | 321 days | |
7 | Senator Thomas Playford | Deakin | 5 July 1905 | 24 January 1907 | 1 year, 203 days | ||
8 | Sir Thomas Ewing KCMG MP | 24 January 1907 | 13 November 1908 | 1 year, 294 days | |||
9 | Senator George Pearce[n 1] | Labor | Fisher | 13 November 1908 | 2 June 1909 | 201 days | |
10 | Joseph Cook MP | Liberal | Deakin | 2 June 1909 | 29 April 1910 | 331 days | |
(9) | Senator George Pearce[n 1] | Labor | Fisher | 29 April 1910 | 24 June 1913 | 3 years, 56 days | |
11 | Senator Edward Millen | Liberal | Cook | 24 June 1913 | 17 September 1914 | 1 year, 85 days | |
(9) | Senator George Pearce[n 1] | Labor | Fisher | 17 September 1914 | 27 October 1915 | 7 years, 95 days | |
Hughes | 27 October 1915 | 14 November 1916 | |||||
National Labor | 14 November 1916 | 13 June 1917[n 2] | |||||
Nationalist | 13 June 1917 | 21 December 1921 | |||||
12 | Walter Massy-Greene MP[n 3] | 21 December 1921 | 9 February 1923 | 1 year, 50 days | |||
13 | Eric Bowden MP | Bruce | 9 February 1923 | 16 January 1925 | 1 year, 342 days | ||
14 | Sir Neville Howse VC KCB KCMG MP | 16 January 1925 | 2 April 1927 | 2 years, 76 days | |||
15 | Senator Sir William Glasgow KCB CMG DSO VD | 2 April 1927 | 22 October 1929 | 2 years, 203 days | |||
16 | Albert Green MP | Labor | Scullin | 22 October 1929 | 4 February 1931 | 1 year, 105 days | |
17 | Senator John Daly | 4 February 1931 | 3 March 1931 | 27 days | |||
18 | Ben Chifley MP | 3 March 1931 | 6 January 1932 | 309 days | |||
(9) | Senator Sir George Pearce KCVO[n 1] | United Australia |
Lyons | 6 January 1932 | 12 October 1934 | 2 years, 279 days | |
19 | Sir Archdale Parkhill KCMG MP | 12 October 1934 | 20 November 1937 | 3 years, 39 days | |||
20 | Joseph Lyons CH MP | 20 November 1937 | 29 November 1937 | 9 days | |||
21 | Harold Thorby MP | Country | 29 November 1937 | 7 November 1938 | 343 days | ||
22 | Geoffrey Street MC MP | United Australia |
7 November 1938 | 7 April 1939 | 1 year, 6 days | ||
Page | 7 April 1939 | 26 April 1939 | |||||
Menzies | 26 April 1939 | 13 November 1939 | |||||
23 | Robert Menzies MP[n 4] | 13 November 1939 | 29 August 1941 | 1 year, 328 days | |||
Fadden | 29 August 1941 | 7 October 1941 | |||||
24 | John Curtin MP[n 4] | Labor | Curtin | 7 October 1941 | 6 July 1945 | 3 years, 272 days | |
25 | Jack Beasley MP | Forde | 6 July 1945 | 13 July 1945 | 1 year, 39 days | ||
Chifley | 13 July 1945 | 14 August 1946 | |||||
26 | Frank Forde MP | 15 August 1946 | 1 November 1946 | 79 days | |||
27 | John Dedman MP | 1 November 1946 | 19 December 1949 | 3 years, 48 days | |||
28 | Eric Harrison MP | Liberal | Menzies | 19 December 1949 | 24 October 1950 | 309 days | |
29 | Sir Philip McBride KCMG MP | 24 October 1950 | 10 December 1958 | 8 years, 47 days | |||
30 | Athol Townley MP | 10 December 1958 | 18 December 1963 | 5 years, 8 days | |||
31 | Paul Hasluck MP | 18 December 1963 | 24 April 1964 | 128 days | |||
32 | Senator Sir Shane Paltridge KBE | 24 April 1964 | 19 January 1966 | 1 year, 270 days | |||
33 | Allen Fairhall MP | Holt | 26 January 1966 | 12 December 1967 | 3 years, 297 days | ||
McEwen | 12 December 1967 | 10 January 1968 | |||||
Gorton | 10 January 1968 | 12 November 1969 | |||||
34 | Malcolm Fraser MP | 12 November 1969 | 8 March 1971 | 1 year, 116 days | |||
35 | John Gorton CH MP | McMahon | 19 March 1971 | 13 August 1971 | 147 days | ||
36 | David Fairbairn DFC MP | 13 August 1971 | 5 December 1972 | 1 year, 114 days | |||
37 | Lance Barnard MP | Labor | Whitlam | 5 December 1972 | 6 June 1975 | 2 years, 183 days | |
38 | Bill Morrison MP | 6 June 1975 | 11 November 1975 | 158 days | |||
39 | Sir James Killen KCMG MP | Liberal | Fraser | 12 November 1975 | 7 May 1982 | 6 years, 176 days | |
40 | Ian Sinclair MP | National Country | 7 May 1982 | 16 October 1982 | 308 days | ||
National | 16 October 1982 | 11 March 1983 | |||||
41 | Gordon Scholes MP | Labor | Hawke | 11 March 1983 | 13 December 1984 | 1 year, 277 days | |
42 | Kim Beazley MP | 13 December 1984 | 4 April 1990 | 5 years, 112 days | |||
43 | Senator Robert Ray | 4 April 1990 | 20 December 1991 | 5 years, 342 days | |||
Keating | 20 December 1991 | 11 March 1996 | |||||
44 | Ian McLachlan AO MP | Liberal | Howard | 11 March 1996 | 21 October 1998 | 2 years, 224 days | |
45 | John Moore MP | 21 October 1998 | 30 January 2001 | 2 years, 101 days | |||
46 | Peter Reith MP | 30 January 2001 | 26 November 2001 | 300 days | |||
47 | Senator Robert Hill | 26 November 2001 | 20 January 2006 | 4 years, 55 days | |||
48 | Brendan Nelson MP | 20 January 2006 | 3 December 2007 | 1 year, 317 days | |||
49 | Joel Fitzgibbon MP | Labor | Rudd | 3 December 2007 | 9 June 2009 | 1 year, 188 days | |
50 | Senator John Faulkner | 9 June 2009 | 24 June 2010 | 1 year, 97 days | |||
Gillard | 24 June 2010 | 14 September 2010 | |||||
51 | Stephen Smith MP | 14 September 2010 | 27 June 2013 | 3 years, 4 days | |||
Rudd | 27 June 2013 | 18 September 2013 | |||||
52 | Senator David Johnston | Liberal | Abbott | 18 September 2013 | 23 December 2014 | 1 year, 96 days | |
53 | Kevin Andrews MP | 23 December 2014 | 15 September 2015 | 272 days | |||
Turnbull | 15 September 2015 | 21 September 2015 | |||||
54 | Senator Marise Payne | 21 September 2015 | 24 August 2018 | 2 years, 341 days | |||
Morrison | 24 August 2018 | 28 August 2018 | |||||
55 | Christopher Pyne MP | 28 August 2018 | 26 May 2019 | 271 days | |||
56 | Senator Linda Reynolds CSC | 29 May 2019 | 30 March 2021 | 1 year, 305 days | |||
57 | Peter Dutton MP | 30 March 2021 | 23 May 2022 | 1 year, 54 days | |||
58 | Richard Marles MP | Labor | Albanese | 1 June 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 322 days |
List of assistant ministers for defence
The following individuals have been appointed as Assistant Minister for Defence, or any of its precedent titles:[10]
Order | Minister | Party | Prime Minister | Title | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
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1 | Granville Ryrie MP[n 5] | Nationalist | Hughes | Assistant Minister for Defence | 4 February 1920 | 5 February 1923 | 3 years, 1 day | |
2 | Josiah Francis | United Australia | Lyons | Assistant Minister for Defence | 6 January 1932 | 12 October 1934 | 2 years, 279 days | |
3 | Reg Bishop | Labor | Whitlam | Minister assisting the Minister for Defence | 19 December 1972 | 12 June 1974 | 1 year, 175 days | |
4 | John McLeay | Liberal | Fraser | Minister assisting the Minister for Defence | 22 December 1975 | 3 November 1980 | 4 years, 317 days | |
5 | Kevin Newman | 3 November 1980 | 7 May 1982 | 1 year, 185 days | ||||
6 | Bruce Scott | National | Howard | Minister assisting the Minister for Defence | 21 October 1998 | 26 November 2001 | 3 years, 36 days | |
7 | Danna Vale | Liberal | 26 November 2001 | 7 October 2003 | 1 year, 315 days | |||
8 | Mal Brough | 7 October 2003 | 18 July 2004 | 285 days | ||||
9 | Fran Bailey | 18 July 2004 | 22 October 2004 | 285 days | ||||
10 | De-Anne Kelly | National | 22 October 2004 | 27 January 2006 | 1 year, 97 days | |||
11 | Bruce Billson | Liberal | 27 January 2006 | 3 December 2007 | 1 year, 310 days | |||
12 | Stuart Robert | Liberal | Abbott | Assistant Minister for Defence | 18 September 2013 | 15 September 2015 | 2 years, 3 days | |
Turnbull | 15 September 2015 | 21 September 2015 | ||||||
13 | Darren Chester | National | 21 September 2015 | 18 February 2016 | 150 days | |||
14 | Michael McCormack | 18 February 2016 | 19 July 2016 | 152 days | ||||
15 | David Fawcett | Liberal | Morrison | Assistant Minister for Defence | 26 August 2018 | 29 May 2019 | 276 days | |
16 | Alex Hawke | 29 May 2019 | 22 December 2020 | 1 year, 207 days | ||||
16 | Andrew Hastie | 22 December 2020 | 23 May 2022 | 1 year, 152 days | ||||
17 | Matt Thistlethwaite | Labor | Albanese | 1 June 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 322 days |
Individual service branch ministers
The following served as Minister for the Navy:[10]
Order | Minister | Party | Prime Minister | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
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1 | Jens Jensen MP | Labor | Fisher | 12 July 1915 | 27 October 1915 | 1 year, 220 days | |
Hughes | 27 October 1915 | 14 November 1916 | |||||
National Labor | 14 November 1916 | 17 February 1917 | |||||
2 | Joseph Cook MP | Commonwealth Liberal[n 2] |
17 February 1917 | 13 June 1917 | 3 years, 162 days | ||
Nationalist | 13 June 1917 | 28 July 1920 | |||||
3 | William Laird Smith MP | 28 July 1920 | 21 December 1921 | 1 year, 146 days | |||
4 | Frederick Stewart MP | United Australia |
Menzies | 13 November 1939 | 14 March 1940 | 122 days | |
5 | Archie Cameron MP | Country | 14 March 1940 | 28 October 1940 | 228 days | ||
6 | Billy Hughes MP | United Australia |
28 October 1940 | 29 August 1941 | 344 days | ||
Fadden | 29 August 1941 | 7 October 1941 | |||||
7 | Norman Makin MP | Labor | Curtin | 7 October 1941 | 6 July 1945 | 4 years, 312 days | |
Forde | 6 July 1945 | 13 July 1945 | |||||
Chifley | 13 July 1945 | 15 August 1946 | |||||
8 | Arthur Drakeford MP | 15 August 1946 | 1 November 1946 | 78 days | |||
9 | Bill Riordan MP | 1 November 1946 | 19 December 1949 | 3 years, 48 days | |||
10 | Josiah Francis MP | Liberal | Menzies | 19 December 1949 | 11 May 1951 | 1 year, 143 days | |
11 | Philip McBride MP | 11 May 1951 | 17 July 1951 | 67 days | |||
12 | William McMahon MP | 17 July 1951 | 9 July 1954 | 2 years, 357 days | |||
(10) | Josiah Francis MP | 9 July 1954 | 11 July 1955 | 1 year, 2 days | |||
13 | Eric Harrison MP | 11 July 1955 | 11 January 1956 | 184 days | |||
14 | Senator Neil O'Sullivan | 11 January 1956 | 24 October 1956 | 287 days | |||
15 | Charles Davidson MP | Country | 24 October 1956 | 10 December 1958 | 2 years, 47 days | ||
16 | Senator John Gorton | Liberal | 10 December 1958 | 18 December 1963 | 5 years, 8 days | ||
17 | Jim Forbes MP | 18 December 1963 | 4 March 1964 | 77 days | |||
18 | Fred Chaney, Sr. MP | 4 March 1964 | 26 January 1966 | 2 years, 285 days | |||
Holt | 26 January 1966 | 14 December 1966 | |||||
19 | Don Chipp MP | 14 December 1966 | 19 December 1967 | 1 year, 76 days | |||
McEwen | 19 December 1967 | 10 January 1968 | |||||
Gorton | 10 January 1968 | 28 February 1968 | |||||
20 | Bert Kelly MP | 28 February 1968 | 12 November 1969 | 1 year, 257 days | |||
21 | James Killen MP | 12 November 1969 | 10 March 1971 | 1 year, 130 days | |||
McMahon | 10 March 1971 | 22 March 1971 | |||||
22 | Malcolm Mackay MP | 22 March 1971 | 5 December 1972 | 1 year, 258 days | |||
23 | Lance Barnard MP | Labor | Whitlam | 5 December 1972 | 30 November 1973 | 360 days |
Ministers for the Army
The following served as Minister for the Army:[10]
Order | Minister | Party | Prime Minister | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Geoffrey Street MP | United Australia |
Menzies | 13 November 1939 | 28 October 1940 | 350 days | |
2 | Senator Percy Spender | 28 October 1940 | 29 August 1941 | 344 days | |||
Fadden | 29 August 1941 | 7 October 1941 | |||||
3 | Frank Forde MP | Labor | Curtin | 7 October 1941 | 6 July 1945 | 5 years, 25 days | |
Forde | 6 July 1945 | 13 July 1945 | |||||
Chifley | 13 July 1945 | 1 November 1946 | |||||
4 | Cyril Chambers MP | 1 November 1946 | 19 December 1949 | 3 years, 48 days | |||
5 | Josiah Francis MP | Liberal | Menzies | 19 December 1949 | 7 November 1955 | 5 years, 323 days | |
6 | Eric Harrison MP | 7 November 1955 | 28 February 1956 | 113 days | |||
7 | John Cramer MP | 28 February 1956 | 18 December 1963 | 7 years, 293 days | |||
8 | Jim Forbes MP | 18 December 1963 | 26 January 1966 | 2 years, 39 days | |||
9 | Malcolm Fraser MP | Holt | 26 January 1966 | 19 December 1967 | 2 years, 33 days | ||
McEwen | 19 December 1967 | 10 January 1968 | |||||
Gorton | 10 January 1968 | 28 February 1968 | |||||
10 | Phillip Lynch MP | 28 February 1968 | 12 November 1969 | 1 year, 257 days | |||
11 | Andrew Peacock MP | 12 November 1969 | 10 March 1971 | 2 years, 82 days | |||
McMahon | 10 March 1971 | 2 February 1972 | |||||
12 | Bob Katter, Sr. MP | Country | 2 February 1972 | 5 December 1972 | 309 days | ||
13 | Lance Barnard MP | Labor | Whitlam | 5 December 1972 | 30 November 1973 | 360 days |
Ministers for Air
The following served as Minister for Air:[10]
Order | Minister | Party | Prime Minister | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | James Fairbairn MP | United Australia |
Menzies | 13 November 1939 | 13 August 1940 | 274 days | |
2 | Arthur Fadden MP | Country | 14 August 1940 | 28 October 1940 | 75 days | ||
3 | John McEwen MP | 28 October 1940 | 29 August 1941 | 344 days | |||
Fadden | 29 August 1941 | 7 October 1941 | |||||
4 | Arthur Drakeford MP | Labor | Curtin | 7 October 1941 | 6 July 1945 | 8 years, 73 days | |
Forde | 6 July 1945 | 13 July 1945 | |||||
Chifley | 13 July 1945 | 19 December 1949 | |||||
5 | Thomas White MP | Liberal | Menzies | 19 December 1949 | 11 May 1951 | 1 year, 143 days | |
6 | Philip McBride MP | 11 May 1951 | 17 July 1951 | 67 days | |||
7 | William McMahon MP | 17 July 1951 | 9 July 1954 | 2 years, 357 days | |||
8 | Athol Townley MP | 9 July 1954 | 24 October 1956 | 2 years, 107 days | |||
9 | Frederick Osborne MP | 24 October 1956 | 29 December 1960 | 4 years, 66 days | |||
10 | Senator Harrie Wade | 29 December 1960 | 22 December 1961 | 358 days | |||
11 | Les Bury MP | 22 December 1961 | 27 July 1962 | 217 days | |||
12 | David Fairbairn MP | 27 July 1962 | 10 June 1964 | 1 year, 319 days | |||
13 | Peter Howson MP | 10 June 1964 | 26 January 1966 | 3 years, 263 days | |||
Holt | 26 January 1966 | 19 December 1967 | |||||
McEwen | 19 December 1967 | 10 January 1968 | |||||
Gorton | 10 January 1968 | 28 February 1968 | |||||
14 | Gordon Freeth MP | 28 February 1968 | 13 February 1969 | 351 days | |||
15 | Dudley Erwin MP | 13 February 1969 | 12 November 1969 | 272 days | |||
16 | Senator Tom Drake-Brockman | Country | 12 November 1969 | 10 March 1971 | 3 years, 23 days | ||
McMahon | 10 March 1971 | 5 December 1972 | |||||
17 | Lance Barnard MP | Labor | Whitlam | 5 December 1972 | 30 November 1973 | 360 days |
See also
- Department of Defence (Australia)
- Department of Munitions (11 June 1940 — April 1948)
- Minister for Defence Industry
- Minister for Defence Personnel
- Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Australia)
- Defence Estate and Infrastructure Group
Notes
- ^ a b c d Although McBride served the longest continuously, Pearce had the longest combined service at more than 13 years, and as a member of four parties (Labor, National Labor, Nationalist, and UAP).
- ^ a b The Liberal and National Labor parties approved a coalition agreement on 13 February 1917,[11] and the new ministry was sworn on 17 February 1917.[12] The parties co-ordinated their campaign against Labor at the 1917 election,[13] and while there was some discussion of the two parties remaining separate,[14] they formally merged on 13 June 1917.[15]
- ^ The Parliamentary Handbook erroneously records Massy-Greene as Assistant Minister for Defence from 1921 to 1923. He was in fact the Minister for Defence.[16] He retained responsibility for Health, which he had held as Minister for Trade and Customs,[17] and was consequently titled Minister for Defence and Health.[18]
- ^ a b On 13 November 1939, early in the Second World War, Menzies divided the Defence portfolio into separate Army, Navy and Air portfolios and appointed himself Minister for Defence Coordination to oversee them.[10] Curtin retained this arrangement, but he reverted to the title Minister for Defence on 21 September 1943.[10]
- ^ The Parliamentary Handbook erroneously records that Ryrie ceased to be Assistant Minister for Defence, being replaced by Massy-Greene. In fact, Massy-Greene was appointed Minister for Defence, and Ryrie remained in post.[18][19]
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- ^ "Requirements for Annual Reports" (PDF). Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 25 June 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ "Federal Register of Legislation - Australian Government". www.legislation.gov.au. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ Elder, DR; Fowler, PE, eds. (June 2018). "Chapter 2: The Ministry". House of Representatives Practice (7th ed.). Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth of Australia. ISBN 978-1-74366-656-2. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ "Defence policy". www.australia.gov.au. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ "2016 Defence White Paper". Australian Government, Department of Defence. 2016.
- ^ The Department of Munitions was created during World War II, and existed between 11 June 1940 and April 1948.
- ^ a b c d e f g Australian Parliamentary Library. "Ministries and Cabinets". Parliamentary Handbook (32nd ed.). Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ^ "The National Government: Agreement Reached". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 14 February 1917. p. 7. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ^ "'Win the War' Party". Morning Bulletin. Rockhampton, Qld. 7 April 1917. p. 9. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ^ "'Fusion' Campaign: Joint Committee to Fight Labor". Daily Herald. Adelaide. 4 April 1917. p. 5. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ "Fawkner's New Member, Mr. Maxwell's Resolution". The Argus. Melbourne. 13 June 1917. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
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- ^ "The Federal Cabinet". Geraldton Guardian. Geraldton, WA. 22 December 1921. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ "Reconstructed Cabinet: Mr Massy Greene's Responsibilities". Daily Herald. Adelaide. 26 December 1921. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ a b Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia (28 June 1922). "Parliamentary Debate". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Commonwealth of Australia: House of Representatives.
- ^ "Federal Reshuffle". The Brisbane Courier. 23 December 1921. p. 3. Retrieved 25 September 2013.