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Nationalist Party of Australia
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...
–Australian Country Party
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...
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- Rt Hon Stanley BruceStanley BruceStanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, CH, MC, FRS, PC , was an Australian politician and diplomat, and the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. He was the second Australian granted an hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom, but the first whose peerage was formally created...
, MP: Prime Minister, Minister for External Affairs (Nat) - Hon Dr Earle PageEarle PageSir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, GCMG, CH was the 11th Prime Minister of Australia, and is to date the second-longest serving federal parliamentarian in Australian history, with 41 years, 361 days in Parliament.-Early life:...
, MP: Treasurer (CP) - Senator Rt Hon George PearceGeorge PearceSir George Foster Pearce KCVO was an Australian politician who was instrumental in founding the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia....
: Minister for Home and Territories - Hon Littleton GroomLittleton GroomSir Littleton Ernest Groom, KCMG was an Australian Commonwealth Minister, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Australia's 17th longest serving federal Parliamentarian . He was a member of every non-Australian Labor Party ministry from 1905 to 1926...
, KC MP: Attorney-General. Minister for Trade and Customs (29 May 1924 to 13 June 1924), Minister for Health (29 May 1924 to 13 June 1924) (Nat) - Hon William Gibson, MP: Postmaster-General (CP)
- Hon Austin ChapmanAustin ChapmanSir Austin Chapman KCMG , Australian politician, was a member of several early federal ministries. He was born in Bong Bong near Bowral, New South Wales and educated at Marulan Public School and was apprenticed as a saddler at an early age...
, MP: Minister for Trade and Customs (to 26 May 1924), Minister for Health (to 26 May 1924) (Nat) - Hon Percy Stewart, MP: Minister for Works and Railways (to 8 August 1924) (CP)
- Hon Eric BowdenEric BowdenEric Kendall Bowden was an Australian solicitor and politician.-Early life:The second son of John and Sarah Bowden, he was born in Parramatta, New South Wales, where his family had resided for four generations...
, MP: Minister for Defence (to 16 January 1925) (Nat) - Hon Llewellyn Atkinson, MP: Vice-President of the Executive Council (CP)
- Senator Hon Victor Wilson: Honorary Minister (to 16 January 1925), Minister for Markets and Migration (from 16 January 1925) (Nat)
- Senator Hon Thomas CrawfordThomas Crawford (Australian politician)Thomas William Crawford was a long-serving member of the Australian Senate and joint Father of the Senate.-Early life:...
: Honorary Minister (from 14 February 1923) (Nat) - Hon Herbert PrattenHerbert PrattenHerbert Edward Pratten was an Australian politician.Pratten was born in Mangotsfield near Bristol, England, but made a fortune as a jam manufacturer in Western Sydney...
, MP: Minister for Trade and Customs (from 13 June 1924), Minister for Health (13 June 1924 to 16 January 1925) (Nat) - Hon William Hill, MP: Minister for Works and Railways (from 8 August 1924) (CP)
- Hon Sir Neville HowseNeville HowseMajor General Sir Neville Reginald Howse VC, KCB, KCMG, KStJ was a British-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces...
, VCVictoria CrossThe Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
, KCMG, MP: Minister for Defence (from 16 January 1925), Minister for Health (from 16 January 1925) (Nat)