Third Fraser Ministry
Encyclopedia
The Third Fraser Ministry was the fifty-third Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 20 December 1977 to 3 November 1980.
Liberal Party of Australia
–National Country Party
Coalition
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...
–National 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...
Coalition
Cabinet
- Rt Hon Malcolm FraserMalcolm FraserJohn Malcolm Fraser AC, CH, GCL, PC is a former Australian Liberal Party politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He came to power in the 1975 election following the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government, in which he played a key role...
, MP: Prime Minister - Rt Hon Doug AnthonyDoug AnthonyJohn Douglas Anthony, AC, CH , is a former Australian politician. He was leader of the National Party from 1971 to 1984, and Deputy Prime Minister from 1971 to 1972 and again from 1975 to 1983.-Early life:...
, MP: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Trade and Resources (NCP) - Rt Hon Phillip LynchPhillip LynchSir Phillip Reginald Lynch KCMG was an Australian Liberal politician.Lynch held the House of Representatives seat of Flinders from 1966 to 1982. Between 1968 and 1972, he served variously as Minister for the Army, Minister for Immigration, and Minister for Labour and National Service, under Prime...
, MP: Minister for Industry and Commerce - Rt Hon Ian SinclairIan SinclairIan McCahon Sinclair AC , is an Australian politician and former leader of the National Party of Australia.Sinclair was born in Sydney, the son of a suburban accountant. He was educated at Knox Grammar School and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in arts and law...
, MP: Minister for Primary Industry (NCP) (to 27 September 1979). Minister for Special Trade Representations (from 19 August 1980) - Senator Rt Hon Reg WithersReg WithersReginald Greive 'Reg' Withers is a former long-serving member of the Australian Senate, a former government minister, and former Lord Mayor of Perth....
: Minister for Administrative Services, Vice-President of the Executive Council (to 7 August 1978) - Hon Tony StreetTony StreetAnthony Austin Street is a retired Australian politician and member of parliament.He is the son of Geoffrey Street, a former Australian Cabinet Minister and MP...
, MP: Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (to 5 December 1978). Minister for Industrial Relations (from 5 December 1978). - Hon Peter NixonPeter NixonPeter James Nixon AO is a former Australian politician representing the National Party ....
, MP: Minister for Transport (to 8 December 1979). Minister for Primary Industry (from 27 September 1979) (NCP) - Hon John HowardJohn HowardJohn 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....
, MP: Treasurer. Minister for Finance (23 February 1979 to 27 February 1979) - Senator Hon John CarrickJohn Carrick (Australian politician)Sir John Leslie Carrick, AC, KCMG is a former Australian politician.-Early life:Carrick studied economics at the University of Sydney . Before he was able to commence his career to any great degree he fought with the Sparrow Force of the Australian Army during World War II. He was landed on...
: Minister for Education (to 8 December 1979). Vice-President of the Executive Council (from 7 August 1978). Minister for National Development and Energy (from 8 December 1979). Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Federal Affairs (to 25 August 1978) - Hon Andrew PeacockAndrew PeacockAndrew Sharp Peacock AC, GCL , is a former Australian Liberal politician. He was a minister in the Gorton, McMahon and Fraser governments, and was federal leader of the Liberal Party of Australia 1983–1985 and 1989–1990...
, MP: Minister for Foreign Affairs - Hon James KillenJames KillenSir Denis James "Jim" Killen, AC, KCMG , was an Australian politician.-Education and early career:Killen was born in Dalby, Queensland and educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in law...
, MP: Minister for Defence - Senator Hon Margaret GuilfoyleMargaret GuilfoyleDame Margaret Georgina Constance Guilfoyle, AC, DBE was a British-born Australian Senator for the state of Victoria from 1971 to 1987. She was the second woman to receive a federal ministerial portfolio, after Dame Enid Lyons...
: Minister for Social Security. - Hon Eric RobinsonEric Robinson (Australian politician)Eric Laidlaw Robinson was an Australian politician.Robinson took over his family's sporting goods business and built it up from a single store into a chain along the Queensland coast. He was president of the Queensland branch of the Liberal Party in from 1968 to 1973. He was elected to the...
, MP: Minister for Finance (to 23 February 1979). Minister for Finance (from 27 February 1979) - Senator Hon Peter DurackPeter DurackPeter Drew Durack, QC was an Australian politician, representing the Liberal Party. He rose to become Attorney-General of Australia....
, QC MP: Attorney-General. Minister for Administrative Services (7 August 1978 to 25 August 1978) (in Cabinet from 25 August 1978) - Hon Ralph HuntRalph Hunt (Australian politician)Ralph James Dunnet Hunt AO was an Australian politician.Hunt was born in Narrabri, New South Wales and was a farmer and grazier before entering the Australian Parliament. He was a councillor of Boomi Shire Council from 1956 to 1968 and Vice-President of it from 1962 to 1968...
, MP: Minister for Health (to 8 December 1979). Minister for Transport (from 8 December 1979) (in Cabinet from 8 December 1979) (NCP) - Hon Ian VinerIan VinerRobert Ian Viner AO is an Australian former politician. He was the Liberal Party of Australia member for the House of Representatives seat of Stirling from 1972 until his defeat by Ron Edwards in the 1983 election...
, MP: Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (to 5 December 1978). Minister assisting the Prime Minister (to 8 December 1979). Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (from 5 December 1978)
Outer ministry
- Hon Robert Ellicott, MP: Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for the Capital Territory
- Hon Victor GarlandVictor GarlandSir 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...
, MP: Minister for Veterans' Affairs (to 4 July 1978). Minister for Special Trade Representations to 8 December 1979). Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs, Minister assisting the Minister for Industry and Commerce (from 8 December 1979) - Hon Michael MacKellarMichael MacKellarMichael John Randal MacKellar, AM is an Australian politician and was the Liberal Member for Warringah from 1969 until 1994. He is the current president of the National Ageing Research Institute , Melbourne, Australia....
, MP: Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (to 8 December 1979). Minister assisting the Treasurer (25 August 1978 to 8 December 1979). Minister for Health, Minister assisting the Prime Minister (from 8 December 1979) - Hon Evan AdermannEvan AdermannEvan Adermann AO was an Australian politician.Adermann was born in Kingaroy, Queensland, son of Charles Adermann, and was educated at Brisbane Boys' College. He did not complete a medical degree at the University of Queensland and instead became a dairy farmer in Kingaroy...
, MP: Minister assisting the Minister for Primary Industry. Minister for the Northern Territory (to 28 September 1978). Minister for Veterans' Affairs (from 4 July 1978) (NCP) - Hon John McLeay, MP: Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. Minister for Construction (to 5 December 1978). Minister for Administrative Services (from 5 December 1978)
- Hon Kevin NewmanKevin Newman (Australian politician)Kevin Eugene Newman AO was an Australian soldier and politician. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Australian Army, serving in Malaysia and the Vietnam War....
, MP: Minister for National Development (to 8 December 1979). Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Federal Affairs (from 8 December 1979). Minister for Productivity (from 8 December 1979) - Senator Hon James Webster: Minister for Science (to 5 December 1978). Minister for Science and the Environment (5 December 1978 to 8 December 1979) (NCP)
- Hon Tony StaleyTony StaleyAnthony Allan Staley, AO is an Australian politician, member of parliament and businessman....
, MP: Minister for Post and Telecommunications - Hon Ian MacpheeIan MacpheeIan Malcolm Macphee AO is an Australian former politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1974 until 1990...
, MP: Minister for Productivity (to 8 December 1979). Minister assisting the Minister for Industry and Commerce (5 December 1978 to 8 December 1979). Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Minister assisting the Treasurer (from 8 December 1979) - Hon Wal FifeWal FifeWallace 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...
, MP: Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (to 8 December 1979). Minister for Education (from 8 December 1979). Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Federal Affairs (from 25 August 1978 to 8 December 1979). - Hon Ray GroomRay GroomRaymond John "Ray" Groom, AO is a lawyer and former Australian sportsman and politician, representing the Liberal Party in the Federal Parliament 1975–84 and the Tasmanian Parliament 1986–2001. He was a Federal and state minister for a total of 13 years...
, MP: Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Minister assisting the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (to 5 December 1978). Minister for Housing and Construction (from 5 December 1978) - Senator Hon Fred ChaneyFred ChaneyFrederick Michael Chaney, AO is a former Western Australian politician who, until April 2007, held the position of deputy chairman of the Australian Native Title Tribunal and is Chair of Desert Knowledge Australia and on the Board of Directors of Reconciliation Australia.Chaney was born in Perth,...
: Minister for Administrative Services (25 August 1978 to 5 December 1978). Minister assisting the Minister for Education (25 August 1978 to 8 December 1979). Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (from 5 December 1978). Minister assisting the Minister for National Development and Energy (from 8 December 1979) - Senator Hon Douglas ScottDouglas Scott (Australian politician)Douglas Barr Scott is a former Australian National Party politician and briefly government minister. Scott was born in Adelaide, South Australia and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. He was a farmer and grazier before entering politics...
: Minister for Special Trade Representations, Minister assisting the Minister for Trade and Resources (8 December 1979 to 19 August 1980) (NCP) - Hon David Thomson, MP: Minister for Science and the Environment (from 8 December 1979) (NCP)