Minister for Defence (Australia)
Minister for Defence | |
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Department of Defence | |
Style | The Honourable |
Appointer | Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Australia |
Inaugural holder | James Dickson |
Formation | 1901 |
The Australian Minister for Defence is currently Senator the Honourable Marise Payne. Senator Payne became the first female Minister for Defence on 21 September 2015.
The Assistant Minister for Defence is currently The Honourable Darren Chester MP.
The Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC is Stuart Robert MP.
The minister administers the portfolio through the Australian Defence Organisation, which comprises the Department of Defence, the Australian Defence Force, the Australian Defence Force Academy, and a range of other agencies.
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Defence ministries
Over the years there have been a number of ministries with a variety of names involved the defence portfolio; in the period November 1939 to April 1942, there was no position named "Minister of Defence".
Previous governments have included ministers with titles using one or more of the following:
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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:[1]
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 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |
2 | John Forrest CMG MP | Protectionist | Barton | 17 January 1901 | 10 August 1903 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
3 | Senator James Drake | 10 August 1903 | 24 September 1903 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
4 | Austin Chapman MP | Deakin | 24 September 1903 | 27 April 1904 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
5 | Senator Anderson Dawson | Labor | Watson | 27 April 1904 | 18 August 1904 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |
6 | James McCay MP | Protectionist | Reid | 18 August 1904 | 5 July 1905 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |
7 | Senator Thomas Playford | Deakin | 5 July 1905 | 24 January 1907 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
8 | Sir Thomas Ewing KCMG MP | 24 January 1907 | 13 November 1908 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
9 | Senator George Pearce[n 1] | Labor | Fisher | 13 November 1908 | 2 June 1909 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |
10 | Joseph Cook MP | Free Trade | Deakin | 2 June 1909 | 29 April 1910 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |
(9) | Senator George Pearce[n 1] | Labor | Fisher | 29 April 1910 | 24 June 1913 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
10 | Senator Edward Millen | Commonwealth Liberal | Cook | 24 June 1913 | 17 September 1914 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
(9) | Senator George Pearce[n 1] | Labor | Fisher | 17 September 1914 | 27 October 1915 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
Hughes | 27 October 1915 | 14 November 1916 | |||||
National Labor | 14 November 1916 | 13 June 1917[n 2] | |||||
Nationalist | 13 June 1917 | 21 December 1921 | |||||
11 | Walter Massy-Greene MP [n 3] | 21 December 1921 | 9 February 1923 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
12 | Eric Bowden MP | Bruce | 9 February 1923 | 16 January 1925 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
13 | Sir Neville Howse VC KCB KCMG MP | 16 January 1925 | 2 April 1927 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
14 | Senator Sir William Glasgow KCB CMG DSO VD | 2 April 1927 | 22 October 1929 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
15 | Albert Green MP | Labor | Scullin | 22 October 1929 | 4 February 1931 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
16 | Senator John Daly | 4 February 1931 | 3 March 1931 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
17 | Ben Chifley MP | 3 March 1931 | 6 January 1932 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
(9) | Senator Sir George Pearce KCVO [n 1] | United Australia |
Lyons | 6 January 1932 | 12 October 1934 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
18 | Sir Archdale Parkhill KCMG MP | 12 October 1934 | 20 November 1937 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
19 | Joseph Lyons CH MP | 20 November 1937 | 29 November 1937 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
20 | Harold Thorby MP | Country | 29 November 1937 | 7 November 1938 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
21 | Geoffrey Street MC MP | United Australia |
7 November 1938 | 7 April 1939 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
Page | 7 April 1939 | 26 April 1939 | |||||
Menzies | 26 April 1939 | 13 November 1939 | |||||
22 | Robert Menzies MP [n 4] | 13 November 1939 | 29 August 1941 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
Fadden | 29 August 1941 | 7 October 1941 | |||||
23 | John Curtin MP [n 4] | Labor | Curtin | 7 October 1941 | 6 July 1945 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
24 | Jack Beasley MP | Forde | 6 July 1945 | 13 July 1945 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
Chifley | 13 July 1945 | 14 August 1946 | |||||
25 | Frank Forde MP | 15 August 1946 | 1 November 1946 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
26 | John Dedman MP | 1 November 1946 | 19 December 1949 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
27 | Eric Harrison MP | Liberal | Menzies | 19 December 1949 | 24 October 1950 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |
28 | Sir Philip McBride KCMG MP | 24 October 1950 | 10 December 1958 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
29 | Athol Townley MP | 10 December 1958 | 18 December 1963 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
30 | Paul Hasluck MP | 18 December 1963 | 24 April 1964 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
31 | Senator Sir Shane Paltridge KBE | 24 April 1964 | 19 January 1966 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
32 | Allen Fairhall MP | Holt | 26 January 1966 | 12 December 1967 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
McEwen | 12 December 1967 | 10 January 1968 | |||||
Gorton | 10 January 1968 | 12 November 1969 | |||||
33 | Malcolm Fraser MP | 12 November 1969 | 8 March 1971 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
34 | John Gorton CH MP | McMahon | 19 March 1971 | 13 August 1971 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
35 | David Fairbairn DFC MP | 13 August 1971 | 5 December 1972 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
36 | Lance Barnard MP | Labor | Whitlam | 5 December 1972 | 6 June 1975 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
37 | Bill Morrison MP | 6 June 1975 | 11 November 1975 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
38 | Sir James Killen KCMG MP | Liberal | Fraser | 12 November 1975 | 7 May 1982 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
39 | Ian Sinclair MP | National Country | 7 May 1982 | 16 October 1982 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
National | 16 October 1982 | 11 March 1983 | |||||
40 | Gordon Scholes MP | Labor | Hawke | 11 March 1983 | 13 December 1984 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
41 | Kim Beazley MP | 13 December 1984 | 4 April 1990 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
42 | Senator Robert Ray | 4 April 1990 | 20 December 1991 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
Keating | 20 December 1991 | 11 March 1996 | |||||
43 | Ian McLachlan AO MP | Liberal | Howard | 11 March 1996 | 21 October 1998 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
44 | John Moore MP | 21 October 1998 | 30 January 2001 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
45 | Peter Reith MP | 30 January 2001 | 26 November 2001 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
46 | Senator Robert Hill | 26 November 2001 | 20 January 2006 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
47 | Brendan Nelson MP | 20 January 2006 | 3 December 2007 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
48 | Joel Fitzgibbon MP | Labor | Rudd | 3 December 2007 | 9 June 2009 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
49 | Senator John Faulkner | 9 June 2009 | 24 June 2010 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
Gillard | 24 June 2010 | 14 September 2010 | |||||
50 | Stephen Smith MP | 14 September 2010 | 27 June 2013 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
Rudd | 27 June 2013 | 18 September 2013 | |||||
51 | Senator David Johnston | Liberal | Abbott | 18 September 2013 | 23 December 2014 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
52 | Kevin Andrews MP | 23 December 2014 | 15 September 2015 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
Turnbull | 15 September 2015 | 21 September 2015 | |||||
53 | Senator Marise Payne | 21 September 2015 | Incumbent | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days |
List of Assistant Ministers for Defence
The following individuals have been appointed as Assistant Minister for Defence, or any of its precedent titles:[1]
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 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
2 | Josiah Francis | United Australia | Lyons | Assistant Minister for Defence | 6 January 1932 | 12 October 1934 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
3 | Reg Bishop | Labor | Whitlam | Minister assisting the Minister for Defence | 19 December 1972 | 12 June 1974 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
4 | John McLeay | Liberal | Fraser | Minister assisting the Minister for Defence | 22 December 1975 | 3 November 1980 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
5 | Kevin Newman | 3 November 1980 | 7 May 1982 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
6 | Bruce Scott | National | Howard | Minister assisting the Minister for Defence | 21 October 1998 | 26 November 2001 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
7 | Danna Vale | Liberal | 26 November 2001 | 7 October 2003 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
8 | Mal Brough | 7 October 2003 | 18 July 2004 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
9 | Fran Bailey | 18 July 2004 | 22 October 2004 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
10 | De-Anne Kelly | National | 22 October 2004 | 27 January 2006 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
11 | Bruce Billson | Liberal | 27 January 2006 | 3 December 2007 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
12 | Stuart Robert | Liberal National | Abbott | Assistant Minister for Defence | 18 September 2013 | 15 September 2015 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
Turnbull | 15 September 2015 | 21 September 2015 |
Individual service branch ministers
The following served as Minister for the Navy:[1]
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 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
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 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
Nationalist | 13 June 1917 | 28 July 1920 | |||||
3 | William Laird Smith MP | 28 July 1920 | 21 December 1921 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
4 | Frederick Stewart MP | United Australia |
Menzies | 13 November 1939 | 14 March 1940 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |
5 | Archie Cameron MP | 14 March 1940 | 28 October 1940 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
6 | Billy Hughes MP | 28 October 1940 | 29 August 1941 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
Fadden | 29 August 1941 | 7 October 1941 | |||||
7 | Norman Makin MP | Labor | Curtin | 7 October 1941 | 6 July 1945 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
Forde | 6 July 1945 | 13 July 1945 | |||||
Chifley | 13 July 1945 | 15 August 1946 | |||||
8 | Arthur Drakeford MP | 15 August 1946 | 1 November 1946 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
9 | Bill Riordan MP | 1 November 1946 | 19 December 1949 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
10 | Josiah Francis MP | Liberal | Menzies | 19 December 1949 | 11 May 1951 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
11 | Philip McBride MP | 11 May 1951 | 17 July 1951 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
12 | William McMahon MP | 17 July 1951 | 9 July 1954 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
(10) | Josiah Francis MP | 9 July 1954 | 11 July 1955 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
13 | Eric Harrison MP | 11 July 1955 | 11 January 1956 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
14 | Senator Neil O'Sullivan | 11 January 1956 | 24 October 1956 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
15 | Charles Davidson MP | Country | 24 October 1956 | 10 December 1958 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
16 | Senator John Gorton | Liberal | 10 December 1958 | 18 December 1963 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
17 | Jim Forbes MP | 18 December 1963 | 4 March 1964 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
18 | Fred Chaney, Sr. MP | 4 March 1964 | 26 January 1966 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
Holt | 26 January 1966 | 14 December 1966 | |||||
19 | Don Chipp MP | 14 December 1966 | 19 December 1967 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
McEwen | 19 December 1967 | 10 January 1968 | |||||
Gorton | 10 January 1968 | 28 February 1968 | |||||
20 | Bert Kelly MP | 28 February 1968 | 12 November 1969 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
21 | James Killen MP | 12 November 1969 | 10 March 1971 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
McMahon | 10 March 1971 | 22 March 1971 | |||||
22 | Malcolm Mackay MP | 22 March 1971 | 5 December 1972 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
23 | Lance Barnard MP | Labor | Whitlam | 5 December 1972 | 30 November 1973 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days |
Ministers for the Army
The following served as Minister for the Army:[1]
Order | Minister | Party | Prime Minister | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
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1 | Geoffrey Street MP | United Australia |
Menzies | 13 November 1939 | 28 October 1940 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |
2 | Senator Percy Spender | 28 October 1940 | 29 August 1941 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
Fadden | 29 August 1941 | 7 October 1941 | |||||
3 | Frank Forde MP | Labor | Curtin | 7 October 1941 | 6 July 1945 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
Forde | 6 July 1945 | 13 July 1945 | |||||
Chifley | 13 July 1945 | 1 November 1946 | |||||
4 | Cyril Chambers MP | 1 November 1946 | 19 December 1949 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
5 | Josiah Francis MP | Liberal | Menzies | 19 December 1949 | 7 November 1955 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
6 | Eric Harrison MP | 7 November 1955 | 28 February 1956 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
7 | John Cramer MP | 28 February 1956 | 18 December 1963 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
8 | Jim Forbes MP | 18 December 1963 | 26 January 1966 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
9 | Malcolm Fraser MP | Holt | 26 January 1966 | 19 December 1967 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
McEwen | 19 December 1967 | 10 January 1968 | |||||
Gorton | 10 January 1968 | 28 February 1968 | |||||
10 | Phillip Lynch MP | 28 February 1968 | 12 November 1969 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
11 | Andrew Peacock MP | 12 November 1969 | 10 March 1971 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
McMahon | 10 March 1971 | 2 February 1972 | |||||
12 | Bob Katter, Sr. MP | Country | 2 February 1972 | 5 December 1972 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
13 | Lance Barnard MP | Labor | Whitlam | 5 December 1972 | 30 November 1973 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days |
Ministers for Air
The following served as Minister for Air:[1]
Order | Minister | Party | Prime Minister | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
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1 | James Fairbairn MP | United Australia |
Menzies | 13 November 1939 | 13 August 1940 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |
2 | Arthur Fadden MP | Country | 14 August 1940 | 28 October 1940 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
3 | John McEwen MP | 28 October 1940 | 29 August 1941 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
Fadden | 29 August 1941 | 7 October 1941 | |||||
4 | Arthur Drakeford MP | Labor | Curtin | 7 October 1941 | 6 July 1945 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
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 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
6 | Philip McBride MP | 11 May 1951 | 17 July 1951 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
7 | William McMahon MP | 17 July 1951 | 9 July 1954 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
8 | Athol Townley MP | 9 July 1954 | 24 October 1956 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
9 | Frederick Osborne MP | 24 October 1956 | 29 December 1960 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
10 | Senator Harrie Wade | 29 December 1960 | 22 December 1961 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
11 | Les Bury MP | 22 December 1961 | 27 July 1962 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
12 | David Fairbairn MP | 27 July 1962 | 10 June 1964 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
13 | Peter Howson MP | 10 June 1964 | 26 January 1966 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
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 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
15 | Dudley Erwin MP | 13 February 1969 | 12 November 1969 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
16 | Senator Tom Drake-Brockman | Country | 12 November 1969 | 10 March 1971 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
McMahon | 10 March 1971 | 5 December 1972 | |||||
17 | Lance Barnard MP | Labor | Whitlam | 5 December 1972 | 30 November 1973 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days |
See also
- Department of Defence (Australia)
- Minister for Defence Materiel (Australia)
- Minister for Defence Science and Personnel (Australia)
- Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Australia)
Notes
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