Minister For Home Affairs (Australia) - Australian Ministers For Home Affairs

Australian Ministers For Home Affairs

There were Ministers for Home Affairs continuously from 1901 to 12 April 1932, when Archdale Parkhill became Minister for the Interior in the first Lyons Ministry—subsuming his portfolios of Home Affairs and Transport. The Home Affairs or Interior portfolio was responsible for various internal matters, not handled by other ministries. In due course other portfolios were established that took over functions from it, including:

  • Transport from 1928 to 1932 and continuously since 1941
  • Immigration since 1945
  • Agriculture or Primary Industry since 1942
  • Industry from 1928 to 1945 and since 1963

The establishment of such portfolios left the Minister for the Interior mainly responsible for administering the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. On 19 December 1972 the interior porfolio was replaced in the Whitlam Ministry by the Minister for the Capital Territory and the Minister for the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory porfolio was abolished on 28 September 1978, following the granting of self-government to the Northern Territory. From July 1987, administration of the Australian Capital Territory was subsumed in the portfolio of Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories, anticipating ACT self-government on 11 May 1989.

Minister Party affiliation Period Ministerial Title
William Lyne Protectionist Party 1901–03 Minister for Home Affairs
John Forrest 1903–04
Lee Batchelor Australian Labor Party 1904
Dugald Thomson Free Trade Party 1904–05
Littleton Groom Protectionist Party 1905–06
Thomas Ewing 1906–07
John Keating 1907–08
Hugh Mahon Australian Labor Party 1908–09
George Fuller Commonwealth Liberal Party 1909–10
King O'Malley Australian Labor Party 1910–13
Joseph Cook Commonwealth Liberal Party 1913–14
William Archibald Australian Labor Party 1914–15
King O'Malley 1915–16
Fred Bamford National Labor Party 1916–17 Minister for Home and Territories
Paddy Glynn Nationalist Party 1917–20
Alexander Poynton 1920–21
George Pearce 1921–26
William Glasgow 1926–27
Charles Marr 1927–28
Neville Howse 1928
Aubrey Abbott Country Party 1928–29
Arthur Blakeley Australian Labor Party 1929–32 Minister for Home Affairs
Archdale Parkhill United Australia Party 1932
Robert Ellicott Liberal Party 1977–80
Robert Ellicott 1980–81 Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment
Michael MacKellar 1981
Ian Wilson 1981–82
Tom McVeigh 1982–83
Barry Cohen Australian Labor Party 1983–84
Robert Ray 1987–88 Minister for Home Affairs
Bob Debus 2007–09
Brendan O'Connor 2009–2011
Jason Clare 2011–

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