Minister For Veterans' Affairs (Australia) - Australian Ministers For Veterans' Affairs

Australian Ministers For Veterans' Affairs

The portfolio was created by Billy Hughes. It was called Minister for Repatriation from the appointment of the first Minister, Edward Millen on 28 September 1917 to deal with ex-soldiers returning from World War I. Stanley Bruce chose not to include a Minister for Repatriation in his ministry (1923–29), but his successor James Scullin restored it, and it has continued ever since, under different names. Gough Whitlam changed the portfolio title to Minister for Repatriation and Compensation in 1974; Malcolm Fraser restored it to its original title in 1975, and then changed it to Minister for Veterans' Affairs on 5 October 1976, Peter Durack being the last minister under the old title and the first under the new.

Between 1932 and 1938 there was also a Minister in charge of War Service Homes. This position was revived with Herbert Collett's appointment as Minister without portfolio administering War Service Homes in 1939, but was subsumed by Hubert Lazzarini's appointment as Minister for Works and Housing in 1945.

Minister Party affiliation Period Prime
Minister		 Ministerial Title
Edward Millen Nationalist Party 1917–1923 Hughes Minister for Repatriation
Frank Anstey Australian Labor Party 1929–1931 Scullin
John McNeill 1931–1932
Charles Hawker United Australia Party 1932 Lyons
Charles Marr 1932–1934
Billy Hughes 1934–1935
Joseph Lyons 1935–1936
Billy Hughes 1936–1937
Harry Foll 1937–1939
1939 Page
Eric Harrison 1939–1940 Menzies
Geoffrey Street 1940
Philip McBride 1940
George McLeay 1940–1941
Herbert Collett 1941
1941 Fadden
Charles Frost Australian Labor Party 1941–1945 Curtin
1945 Forde
1945–1946 Chifley
Claude Barnard 1946–1949
Walter Cooper Country Party 1949–1960 Menzies
Frederick Osborne Liberal Party 1960–1961
Reginald Swartz 1961–1964
Colin McKellar 1964–1966
1966–1967 Holt
1967–1968 McEwen
1968–1969 Gorton
Mac Holten 1969–1971
1971–1972 McMahon
Lance Barnard Australian Labor Party 1972 Whitlam
Reg Bishop 1972–1974
John Wheeldon 1974–1975 Minister for Repatriation and Compensation
Don Chipp Liberal Party 1975 Fraser
Kevin Newman 1975–1976 Minister for Repatriation
Peter Durack 1976
1976–1977 Minister for Veterans' Affairs
Victor Garland 1977–1978
Evan Adermann National Party 1978–1980
Tony Messner Liberal Party 1980–1983
Arthur Gietzelt Australian Labor Party 1983–1987 Hawke
Ben Humphreys 1987–1991
1991–1993 Keating
John Faulkner 1993–1994
Con Sciacca 1994–1996
Bruce Scott National Party 1996–2001 Howard
Danna Vale Liberal Party 2001–2004
De-Anne Kelly National Party 2004–2006
Bruce Billson Liberal Party 2006–2007
Alan Griffin Australian Labor Party 2007–2010 Rudd
2010 Gillard
Warren Snowdon 2010–

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