Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs (Australia)
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n Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs administers his portfolio through the Treasury
. Responsibility for competition policy and consumer affairs currently rests with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, the Hon David Bradbury MP
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Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs administers his portfolio through the Treasury
Department of the Treasury (Australia)
The Department of the Treasury is an Australian Government department. Its role is to focus and develop economic policy.-History:The Commonwealth Treasury was established in Melbourne in January 1901....
. Responsibility for competition policy and consumer affairs currently rests with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, the Hon David Bradbury MP
David Bradbury
David John Bradbury is an Australian politician. He is an Australian Labor Party Member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Lindsay, New South Wales. Bradbury was elected at the 2007 federal election.Bradbury has lived in Western Sydney all his life, and was educated at...
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List of Ministers for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs
| Minister | Party affiliation | Period | Ministerial Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lionel Murphy Lionel Murphy Lionel Keith Murphy, QC was an Australian politician and jurist who served as Attorney-General in the government of Gough Whitlam and as a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1975 until his death.- Personal life :... |
Australian Labor Party Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... |
1973–1975 | Attorney-General |
| Bill Morrison Bill Morrison (Australian politician) William Lawrence "Bill" Morrison AO , Australian former politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives and a Cabinet minister in the Whitlam government.... |
1975 | Minister for Science and Consumer Affairs | |
| Clyde Cameron Clyde Cameron Clyde Robert Cameron, AO , Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for 31 years from 1949 to 1980, a Cabinet minister in the Whitlam government and a leading figure in the Australian labour movement for forty years.-Biography:Cameron was born in Murray Bridge,... |
1975 | ||
| Sir Bob Cotton | Liberal Party 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... |
1975 | |
| John Howard John Howard John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies.... |
1975–1977 | Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs | |
| Wal Fife Wal Fife Wallace Clyde Fife is a former Australian politician.Fife was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, and was educated at Gurwood Street public school, Wagga Wagga and Canberra Grammar School. In 1948 he started working in the federal secretariat of the Liberal Party of Australia and in 1949 he... |
1977–1979 | ||
| Sir Victor Garland Victor Garland Sir Victor Garland KBE , usually known as Vic Garland, is an Australian former politician, Australian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom and director of many UK and US public companies. A Liberal Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, he represented the Division of Curtin in... |
1979–1980 | ||
| John Moore John Moore (Australian politician) John Colinton Moore AO is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the House of Representatives for over 25 years, and a minister from 1980 to 1982 and 1996 to 2001.... |
1980–1982 | ||
| Neil Brown Neil Brown (Australian politician) Neil Anthony Brown, QC is an Australian lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and former Member of the Federal Parliament of Australia and Minister in the Federal Government.... |
1982–1983 | ||
| Barry Cohen Barry Cohen Barry 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... |
Australian Labor Party | 1983–1984 | Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment |
| Lionel Bowen Lionel Bowen Lionel Frost Bowen AC , Australian politician, was a senior Labor Party figure, serving in the ministries of Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke... |
1984–1987 | Attorney-General | |
| Peter Staples Peter Staples Peter Staples is an Australian politician. He was first elected to Parliament in 1983 as the Member for Diamond Valley, then represented Jagajaga after Diamond Valley was abolished in 1984... |
1987–1988 | Minister for Consumer Affairs | |
| Nick Bolkus Nick Bolkus Nick Bolkus is a former Australian Labor Party politician. He was a member of the Senate from July 1981 to 2005, representing the state of South Australia.-Early career:... |
1988–1990 | ||
| Michael Tate Michael Tate Michael Carter Tate AO is a former Australian Labor Party politician who later became an ambassador and then a Catholic priest.... |
1990–1992 | Minister for Justice and Consumer Affairs | |
| Jeannette McHugh Jeannette McHugh Jeannette McHugh , Australian politician, is a former Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Divisions of Phillip and Grayndler in New South Wales.... |
1992–1996 | Minister for Consumer Affairs | |
| Geoff Prosser Geoff Prosser Geoffrey Daniel Prosser , Australianpolitician, was a Liberal member of theAustralian House of Representatives from July 1987 until the 2007 election, representing the Division of Forrest, Western Australia.... |
Liberal Party | 1996–1997 | Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs |
| Chris Ellison Chris Ellison Christopher Martin Ellison , is a former Liberal member of the Australian Senate. He represented Western Australia in the Senate from July 1993 to January 2009.-Background:... |
1997 | Minister for Customs and Consumer Affairs | |
| Warren Truss Warren Truss Warren Errol Truss , Australian politician, is the current leader of the National Party of Australia in the Parliament of Australia. He has held the House of Representatives seat of Wide Bay since the 1990 election... |
National 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... |
1997–1998 | |
| Joe Hockey Joe Hockey Joseph Benedict "Joe" Hockey , is an Australian politician and member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of North Sydney for the Liberal Party of Australia since 1996.... |
Liberal Party | 1998–2001 | Minister for Financial Services and Regulation |
| Ian Campbell Ian Campbell (Australian politician) Ian Gordon Campbell , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing Western Australia between 1990 and 2007.-Early life:... |
2001–2003 | Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer | |
| Ross Cameron Ross Cameron Ross Alexander Cameron , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 to October 2004, representing the Division of Parramatta, New South Wales... |
2003–2004 | ||
| Chris Pearce Chris Pearce Christopher John Pearce , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Aston, Victoria from July 2001, when he retained the seat for the Liberal Party in the 2001 Aston by-election, to his retirement in 2010.Pearce was born in... |
2004–2007 | ||
| Chris Bowen Chris Bowen Christopher Eyles "Chris" Bowen , an Australian federal politician, is a member of the Australian House of Representatives, initially elected to represent the seat of Prospect in western Sydney for the Australian Labor Party at the 2004 federal election... |
Australian Labor Party | 2007–2009 | Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs |
| Craig Emerson Craig Emerson Craig Anthony Emerson , Australian politician, has represented the House of Representatives seat of Rankin in Queensland for the Australian Labor Party since the 1998 federal election... |
2009–2010 | ||
| David Bradbury David Bradbury David John Bradbury is an Australian politician. He is an Australian Labor Party Member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Lindsay, New South Wales. Bradbury was elected at the 2007 federal election.Bradbury has lived in Western Sydney all his life, and was educated at... |
2010- | Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer |