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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