Fourth Hughes Ministry
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The Fourth Hughes Ministry was the fifteenth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 5 May 1917 to 3 February 1920.
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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...
- Rt Hon Billy HughesBilly HughesWilliam Morris "Billy" Hughes, CH, KC, MHR , Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923....
, MP: Prime Minister, Attorney-General - Rt 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: Minister for the Navy - 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 (to 27 March 1918) - Senator 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 Defence - Hon William Watt, MP: Minister for Works and Railways (to 27 March 1918), Treasurer (from 27 March 1918), Minister for Trade and Customs (13 December 1918 to 17 January 1919)
- Hon Patrick GlynnPatrick GlynnPatrick McMahon Glynn KC was an Attorney General of Australia and Minister for External Affairs.-Early life:...
, KC MP: Minister for Home and Territories - Hon Jens JensenJens JensenJens August Jensen was an Australian politician and Minister for the Navy.Jensen was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Ballarat, leaving school at 11. He became a rabbit-hawker and miner at Beaconsfield, Tasmania. In July 1885 he married Elizabeth Frances Broadhurst; she died in 1894...
, MP: Minister for Trade and Customs (to 13 December 1918) - Hon William WebsterWilliam Webster (Australian politician)William Webster was an Australian politician. Born in Everton, Lancashire in England, he was the son of John Webster, a labourer, and Elizabeth, née Poynton. Leaving school at 13, Webster migrated to New South Wales in 1879 and, having quarried stone at Pyrmont and saved prodigiously, was able to...
, MP: Postmaster-General - Senator Hon Edward MillenEdward MillenEdward Davis Millen was an Australian journalist and politician who served as the first Minister for Repatriation....
: Vice-President of the Executive Council (to 16 November 1917), Minister for Repatriation (from 28 September 1917) - 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: Honorary Minister (to 16 November 1917), Vice-President of the Executive Council (16 November 1917 to 27 March 1918), Minister for Works and Railways (from 27 March 1918) - Senator Hon Edward RussellEdward Russell (Australian politician)Edward John Russell was an Australian politician.Russell was born in Warrnambool, Victoria and educated at Newport State School and St Mary's Catholic School, Williamstown...
: Honorary Minister (to 17 January 1919), Vice-President of the Executive Council (from 27 March 1918) - Hon Walter Massy-Greene, MP: Honorary Minister (27 March 1918 to 17 January 1919), Minister for Trade and Customs (from 17 January 1919)
- Hon Alexander PoyntonAlexander PoyntonAlexander Poynton, OBE, , was an inaugural member of the Australian House of Representatives.Born in Castlemaine, Victoria to Alexander, who took part in the Eureka Stockade rebellion, and Rosanna Poynton, Poynton left school at 14 to work as a shearer, station-hand and miner, and marry Harriet...
, MP: Honorary Minister (from 27 March 1918) - Hon George WiseGeorge WiseGeorge Henry Wise was an Australian politician and solicitor.Wise was born in Melbourne and educated at Scotch College from five years of age to he matriculated in 1868. He became an articled clerk and was admitted to the bar in September 1874 and set up his own practice in 1877 in Sale...
, MP: Honorary Minister (from 27 March 1918) - Hon Richard Orchard, MP: Honorary Minister (27 March 1918 to 31 January 1919)