Attorney-General of Victoria (Australia)
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The Attorney-General of Victoria is a ministry of the Government of Victoria
with responsibility for the state's courts and tribunals. The Attorney General is a senior minister in the state government and the First Law Officer of the State.
The current Attorney-General of Victoria is Robert Clark
from the Liberal Party of Australia
since December 2010.
Government of Victoria
The Government of Victoria, under the Constitution of Australia, ceded certain legislative and judicial powers to the Commonwealth, but retained complete independence in all other areas...
with responsibility for the state's courts and tribunals. The Attorney General is a senior minister in the state government and the First Law Officer of the State.
The current Attorney-General of Victoria is Robert Clark
Robert Clark (Australian politician)
Robert William Clark is a politician representing the Liberal Party of Australia in the state of Victoria.He is currently the Member for Box Hill in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Attorney-General of Victoria.-Early life:Having attended both St...
from the Liberal Party of Australia
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
since December 2010.
List of Attorneys-General of Victoria
- Sir William Foster Stawell: 15.7.1851 – 24.2.1857
- Thomas Howard Fellows: 25.2.1857 – 10.3.1857
- Henry Samuel Chapman: 11.3.1857 – 28.4.1857 / 10.3.1858 – 26.10.1859
- Archibald Michie: 29.4.1857–9.3.1858 / 9.4.1870 – 19.6.1871
- John D. Wood: 27.10.1859 – 25.11.1860
- Richard D. Ireland: 26.11.1860 – 28.7.1861; 14.11.1861 – 26.6.1863
- Butler Cole Aspinall: 29.7.1861 – 13.11.1861
- George Higginbotham: 27.6.1863 – 5.5.1868
- Morgan McDonnell: 6.5.1868 – 10.7.1868; 20.9.1869 – 8.4.1870
- George Paton Smith: 11.7.1868 – 19.9.1869
- Robert Walsh: 5.7.1871 – 9.6.1872
- James W. Stephen: 10.6.1872 – 1.5.1875
- George Kerferd: 2.5.1875 – 7.8.1875; 20.10.1875 – 20.5.1877; 5.3.1880 – 2.8.1880; 8.3.1883 – 1.1.1886
- Sir Robert Le Poer Trench: 9.8.1875 – 19.10.1875; 21.5.1877 – 26.3.1878
- Sir Bryan O’Loghlen: 27.3.1878 – 4.4.1880; 9.7.1881 – 7.3.1883; 23.1.1893 – 26.9.1894
- William Kinsey Vale: 3.8.1880 – 8.7.1881
- Sir Henry John Wrixon: 18.2.1886 – 4.11.1890
- William Shiels: 5.11.1890 – 15.2.1892; 28.4.1892 – 22.1.1893
- John G. Duffy: 16.2.1892 – 27.4.1892
- Sir Isaac Isaacs: 27.9.1894 – 4.12.1899; 19.11.1900 – 3.6.1901
- William Irvine: 5.12.1899 – 18.11.1900; 10.6.1901 – 6.9.1903
- Sir Samuel Gillatt: 4.6.1901 – 9.6.1902
- Sir John Mark Davies: 7.9.1903 – 7.1.1909
- John D. Brown: 8.1.1909 – 8.12.1913
- William J. Evans: 9.12.1913 – 21.12.1913
- Donald Mackinnon: 22.12.1913 – 8.11.1915
- Sir Harry Lawson: 9.11.1915 – 28.11.1917; 21.3.1918 – 20.10.1919
- Agar Wynne: 29.11.1917 – 20.3.1918
- Arthur Robinson: 21.10.1919 – 10.7.1924
- Henry I. Cohen: 11.7.1924 – 17.7.1924
- William Sater: 18.7.1924 – 17.11.1924; 20.5.1927 – 21.11.1928; 12.12.1929 – 18.5.1932; 14.9.1943 – 17.9.1943; 21.11.1945 – 19.11.1947; 17.12.1952 – 6.6.1955
- Sir Frederick Eggleston: 18.11.1924 – 27.4.1927
- John AllanJohn Allan (Australian politician)John Allan , Australian politician, was the 29th Premier of Victoria. He was born near Lancefield, where his father was a farmer of Scottish origin, and educated at state schools. He took up wheat and dairy farming at Wyuna and was director of a butter factory at Kyabram...
: 28.4.1927 – 19.5.1927 - Ian MacFarlan: 26.11.1928 – 11.12.1929; 25.7.1934 – 1.4.1935; 18.9.1943 – 20.11.1945
- Sir Robert Menzies: 19.5.1932 – 24.7.1934
- Albert L. Bussau: 2.4.1935 – 18.4.1938
- Henry S. Bailey: 26.4.1938 – 13.9.1943
- Trevor Oldham: 20.11.1947 – 26.6.1950
- Thomas Walter Mitchell: 27.6.1950 – 27.10.1952; 31.10.1952 – 16.12.1952
- Thomas Holloway: 28.10.1952 – 30.10.1952
- William Leggatt: 7.6.1955
- Arthur Rylah: 8.6.1955 – 8.5.1967
- George O. Reid: 9.5.1967 – 29.5.1973
- Vernon Wilcox: 30.5.1973 – 30.3.1976
- Alan HuntAlan Hunt (politician)Alan John Hunt AM is an Australian politician, having been a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1961 until 1992....
: 31.3.1976 – 5.5.1976 - Haddon Storey: 6.5.1976 – 7.4.1982
- John Cain II: 8.4.1982 – 7.9.1983
- Jim Kennan: 8.9.1983 – 13.12.1987; 2.4.1990 – 5.10.1992
- Andrew McCutcheon: 14.12.1987 – 1.4.1990
- Jan Wade: 6.10.1992 – 19.10.1999
- Rob Hulls: 20.10.1999 – 2.12.2010
- Robert Clark 2.12.2010 - Present