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The Cook Ministry was the tenth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 24 June 1913 to 17 September 1914.
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The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1916, shortly after federation....
- Hon Joseph CookJoseph CookSir Joseph Cook, GCMG was an Australian politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia. Born as Joseph Cooke and working in the coal mines of Silverdale, Staffordshire during his early life, he emigrated to Lithgow, New South Wales during the late 1880s, and became General-Secretary of the...
, MP: Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs - Rt Hon Sir John ForrestJohn ForrestSir John Forrest GCMG was an Australian explorer, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament....
, GCMG MP: Treasurer - Hon Patrick GlynnPatrick GlynnPatrick McMahon Glynn KC was an Attorney General of Australia and Minister for External Affairs.-Early life:...
, MP: Minister for External Affairs - Hon William Irvine, MP: Attorney-General
- Senator Hon Edward MillenEdward MillenEdward Davis Millen was an Australian journalist and politician who served as the first Minister for Repatriation....
: Minister for Defence - 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...
, MP: Minister for Trade and Customs - Hon Agar WynneAgar WynneAgar Wynne was an Australian politician.Wynne was born in London, but his family emigrated to Australia when he was a child. He educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and enrolled in an articled clerk's course at the University of Melbourne and was admitted as an attorney in July...
: Postmaster-General - Senator Hon James McCollJames McColl (Australian politician)James Hiers McColl was an Australian politician.McColl was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, the son of Hugh McColl, and migrated with his family to Australia in 1853, but his mother died before they landed in Melbourne. McColl was educated at the Model School, Sandhurst and for a...
: Vice-President of the Executive Council - Senator Hon John ClemonsJohn ClemonsJohn Singleton Clemons was an Australian politician.Clemons was elected to the Australian Senate for Tasmania at the first federal election in 1901, representing the Free Trade Party—it was later renamed the Anti-Socialist Party and in 1909 it became part of the Commonwealth Liberal Party...
: Minister without portfolio - Hon William KellyWilliam Kelly (Australian politician)William Henry Kelly was an Australian politician.Kelly was born in Sydney and educated at All Saints College, Bathurst, and Eton College from 1893 to 1896...
, MP: Minister without portfolio