First Hawke Ministry
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The First Hawke Ministry was the fifty-fifth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and held office from 11 March 1983 to 13 December 1984.
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Cabinet
- Hon Bob HawkeBob HawkeRobert James Lee "Bob" Hawke AC GCL was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from March 1983 to December 1991 and therefore longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister....
, AC MP: Prime Minister - Hon Lionel BowenLionel BowenLionel Frost Bowen AC , Australian politician, was a senior Labor Party figure, serving in the ministries of Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke...
, MP: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Trade, Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Commonwealth-State Relations. Vice-President of the Executive Council (from 14 July 1983) - Senator Hon John ButtonJohn ButtonJohn Norman Button was an Australian politician, who served as a senior minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments...
: Minister for Industry and Commerce - Senator Hon Donald Grimes: Minister for Social Security
- Hon Ralph WillisRalph WillisRalph Willis AO , Australian politician, was Treasurer for the final years of the Keating Labor Government.-Career:Willis was born in Melbourne to Stan and Doris Willis and educated at Footscray Central School, University High School and Melbourne University, gaining a Bachelor of Commerce degree...
, MP: Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Public Service Matters (to 28 June 1983). Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Public Service Industrial Matters (from 28 June 1983). - Hon Paul KeatingPaul KeatingPaul John Keating was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1991 to 1996. Keating was elected as the federal Labor member for Blaxland in 1969 and came to prominence as the reformist treasurer of the Hawke Labor government, which came to power at the 1983 election...
, MP: Treasurer - Hon Mick YoungMick YoungMichael Jerome Young was an Australian politician. He rose through the Australian Labor Party to become its National Secretary, before serving as a Labor member of the House of Representatives from the 1974 election to 1988...
, MP: Special Minister of State (to 14 July 1983 and from 21 January 1984). Vice-President of the Executive Council (to 14 July 1983) - Hon Stewart WestStewart WestStewart John West , Australian politician, was the Australian Labor Party member for the Division of Cunningham in New South Wales....
, MP: Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (resigned from Cabinet 4 November 1983, reappointed to Cabinet 3 April 1984) - Senator Hon Peter WalshPeter Walsh (Australian politician)Peter Alexander Walsh AO is a former Australian senator and Labor politician from 1974 to 1993.Walsh grew up in Doodlakine, Western Australia, where he was a wheat and sheep farmer. He was elected to the Australian Senate in 1974, and served as Minister for Resources and Energy from 1983 to 1984...
: Minister for Resources and Energy - Hon Bill HaydenBill HaydenWilliam George "Bill" Hayden AC was the 21st Governor-General of Australia. Prior to this, he represented the Australian Labor Party in parliament; he was a minister in the government of Gough Whitlam, and later became Leader of the Opposition, narrowly losing the 1980 federal election to the...
, MP: Minister for Foreign Affairs - Senator Hon Susan RyanSusan RyanSusan Maree Ryan AO is an Australian educator who served as a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory 1975–87...
: Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, Minister assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women - Senator Hon Gareth EvansGareth Evans (politician)Gareth John Evans, AO, QC , is a former Australian politician from 1978 to 1999 representing the Australian Labor Party, serving in a number of ministries including Attorney-General and Foreign Minister from 1983 to 1996 in the Hawke and Keating governments. He was president and chief executive...
, QC: Attorney-General - Hon Gordon ScholesGordon ScholesGordon Glen Denton Scholes AO is a former Australian politician and Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.Scholes was born in Melbourne, the son of Thomas Glen Denton Scholes and his wife Mary Louisa O'Brien. He was the Victorian Amateur Heavyweight Boxing Champion in 1949...
, MP: Minister for Defence - Hon John DawkinsJohn DawkinsJohn Sydney "Joe" Dawkins, AO , Australian politician, was Treasurer in the Keating Labor government from December 1991 to December 1993...
, MP: Minister for Finance. Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Public Service Matters (from 28 June 1983). (in Cabinet from 14 July 1983) - Hon John KerinJohn KerinJohn Charles Kerin, AM is an Australian economist and former Australian Labor Party politician.-Career in politics:...
, MP: Minister for Primary Industry (in Cabinet from 4 November 1983)
Outer ministry
- Hon Kim BeazleyKim BeazleyIn the October 1998 election, Labor polled a majority of the two-party vote and received the largest swing to a first-term opposition since 1934. However, due to the uneven nature of the swing, Labor came up eight seats short of making Beazley Prime Minister....
, MP: Minister for Aviation. Special Minister of State (14 July 1983 to 21 January 1984) - Hon Dr Neal BlewettNeal BlewettNeal Blewett, AC , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Bonython, South Australia from 1977 to 1994.-Education and academic career:...
, MP: Minister for Health - Hon John Brown, MP: Minister for Administrative Services, Minister for Sport, Recreation and Tourism
- Hon Barry CohenBarry CohenBarry Cohen AM is a former Australian Labor politician. He was a minister in the government of Bob Hawke.-Biography:He was born in Griffith, New South Wales and educated at Griffith High School, Sydney Grammar School and North Sydney Technical High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the...
, MP: Minister for Home Affairs and Environment - Hon Michael DuffyMichael Duffy (politician)Michael John Duffy, ONZ , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Holt from 1980 to 1996...
, MP: Minister for Communications - Senator Hon Arthur GietzeltArthur GietzeltArthur Thomas Gietzelt, AO is a former Australian politician and minister.Gietzelt was educated at Hurstville High School. He served in the armed forces in New Guinea during World War II from 1941 to 1945....
: Minister for Veterans' Affairs - Hon Clyde HoldingClyde HoldingAllan Clyde Holding Australian politician, was Leader of the Opposition in Victoria for ten years, and was later a federal minister.-Early life and education:...
, MP: Minister for Aboriginal Affairs - Hon Brian HoweBrian Howe (politician)Brian Leslie Howe, AO , Australian politician, was Deputy Prime Minister in the Labor government of Paul Keating from 1991 to 1995....
, MP: Minister for Defence Support - Hon Chris HurfordChris HurfordChristopher John "Chris" Hurford, AO, was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives seat of Adelaide from 1969 to 1987...
, MP: Minister for Housing and Construction - Hon Barry JonesBarry Jones (Australian politician)Barry Owen Jones AO, FAA, FASSA, FAHA, FTSE, FACE is a writer, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion and former politician. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s, particularly against the execution of Ronald Ryan, and remains against capital punishment...
, MP: Minister for Science and Technology - Hon Peter MorrisPeter Morris (politician)Peter Frederick Morris was an Australian politician.Morris was born in Sydney and was an alderman on the Newcastle City Council from 1968 to 1974. He won the House of Representatives seat of Shortland in 1972. He was appointed Minister for Transport in the first Hawke Ministry in March 1983. In...
, MP: Minister for Transport - Hon Thomas UrenTom UrenThomas Uren, AO was a Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party. He helped establish the heritage and conservation movement in Australia and, in particular, worked to preserve the heritage of inner Sydney.-Early life:...
, MP: Minister for Territories and Local Government, Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Community Development and Regional Affairs