The Australia

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 Social Housing and Homelessness is Mark Arbib

Mark Arbib

Mark Victor Arbib is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of New South Wales. He was the Australian Labor Party State Secretary of the New South Wales branch from 2004 to 2007...

, who was appointed on 14 September 2010, following the 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...

's win at the 2010 election. The minister is responsible for housing policy co-ordination, welfare housing and rent assistance and is administered through the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

List of Ministers for Housing

The first Minister for Housing was Les Bury

Les Bury

Leslie Harry Ernest Bury CMG was an Australian politician.Bury was born in London and was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. During World War II, he served in the Second Australian Imperial Force from 1943 to 1945, with heavy artillery fixed defences and with the 12th Australian Radar...

, appointed in 1963, although there were Ministers in charge of War Service Homes

Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Australia)

The Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs oversees income support, compensation, care and commemoration programs for more than 400,000 veterans and their widows, widowers and dependants....

 from 1932 to 1938 and 1941 to 1945. In 1945 Hubert Lazzarini

Hubert Lazzarini

Hubert Peter Lazzarini was an Australian politician, holding the division of Werriwa as the Australian Labor Party member for most years from 1919 until his death....

 was appointed Minister for Works and Housing and this title continued until 1952, when Wilfrid Kent Hughes

Wilfrid Kent Hughes

Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes KBE, MVO, MC was an Australian soldier, Olympian and Olympic Games organiser, author and federal and state government minister.Kent Hughes was born in Melbourne to an upper middle-class family...

 became Minister for Works. No minister included "works" or "construction

Construction

In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...

" in his porfolio after Stewart West

Stewart West

Stewart John West , Australian politician, was the Australian Labor Party member for the Division of Cunningham in New South Wales....

 lost this title in 1987, partly refelecting the progressive outsourcing of the Commonwealth's construction activities and even ownership of assets. The 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....

 government had no Minister of Housing, partly reflecting the decline of the significance of the commonwealth-state housing agreements as a means of providing new housing since the post-war years.

Minister	Party affiliation	Period	Ministerial Title
Hubert Lazzarini Hubert Lazzarini Hubert Peter Lazzarini was an Australian politician, holding the division of Werriwa as the Australian Labor Party member for most years from 1919 until his death....	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...	1945–1946	Minister for Works and Housing
Nelson Lemmon Nelson Lemmon Nelson Lemmon was an Australian politician and government minister. He was responsible for establishing the Snowy Mountains Scheme....	Australian Labor Party	1946–1949
Richard Casey Richard Casey, Baron Casey Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey KG GCMG CH DSO MC KStJ PC was an Australian politician, diplomat and the 16th Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:...	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...	1949–1951
Wilfrid Kent Hughes Wilfrid Kent Hughes Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes KBE, MVO, MC was an Australian soldier, Olympian and Olympic Games organiser, author and federal and state government minister.Kent Hughes was born in Melbourne to an upper middle-class family...	Liberal Party	1951–1952
Les Bury Les Bury Leslie Harry Ernest Bury CMG was an Australian politician.Bury was born in London and was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. During World War II, he served in the Second Australian Imperial Force from 1943 to 1945, with heavy artillery fixed defences and with the 12th Australian Radar...	Liberal Party	1963–1966	Minister for Housing
Annabelle Rankin Annabelle Rankin Dame Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin DBE was the second woman member of the Australian Senate, the first woman from Queensland to sit in the Parliament of Australia, the first woman to have a federal portfolio and the first woman to be appointed head of a foreign mission.-Biography:Rankin was born in...	Liberal Party	1966–1971
Kevin Cairns	Liberal Party	1971–1972
Gough Whitlam Gough Whitlam Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC , known as Gough Whitlam , served as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia. Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party to power at the 1972 election and retained government at the 1974 election, before being dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr at the climax of the...	Australian Labor Party	1972
Les Johnson Les Johnson The Honourable Leslie Royston "Les" Johnson AM is a former Australian politician, minister and High Commissioner.In his mid-twenties, Les Johnson was elected as a Councillor for Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, where he served for five years.Johnson was elected for the Australian Labor Party as...	Australian Labor Party	1972–1975	Minister for Housing (1972–1973) Minister for Housing and Construction (1973–1975)
Joe Riordan Joe Riordan Joseph Martin "Joe" Riordan AO is a former Australian politician and briefly government minister.A Catholic, Riordan was born in Sydney and educated at Patrician Brothers School and Marist Brother College in that city. He married Patricia Watkins in 1955; they have four sons and two daughters...	Australian Labor Party	1975
John Carrick John 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...	Liberal Party	1975
Ivor Greenwood Ivor Greenwood Ivor John Greenwood was an Australian politician and barrister.-Biography:Greenwood was born in North Melbourne and educated at Hartwell Central State School, Mont Albert Central State School, Scotch College and the University of Melbourne...	Liberal Party	1975–1976	Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development
Kevin Newman Kevin 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....	Liberal Party	1976–1977
Ray Groom Ray Groom Raymond 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...	Liberal Party	1977–1980	Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (1977–1978) Minister for Housing and Construction (1978–1980)
Tom McVeigh Tom McVeigh Daniel Thomas "Tom" McVeigh is a former Australian politician.McVeigh was born in Allora, Queensland and was a farmer before entering the Australian Parliament...	Liberal Party	1980–1982
Chris Hurford Chris Hurford Christopher John "Chris" Hurford, AO, was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives seat of Adelaide from 1969 to 1987...	Australian Labor Party	1983–1984
Stewart West Stewart West Stewart John West , Australian politician, was the Australian Labor Party member for the Division of Cunningham in New South Wales....	Australian Labor Party	1984–1987
Peter Morris Peter 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...	Australian Labor Party	1988–1988	Minister for Housing and Aged Care
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...	Australian Labor Party	1988–1990
Brian Howe Brian Howe (politician) Brian Leslie Howe, AO , Australian politician, was Deputy Prime Minister in the Labor government of Paul Keating from 1991 to 1995....	Australian Labor Party	1990–1996	Minister for Community Services and Health (1990–1991) Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services (1991–1993) Minister for Housing, Local Government and Human Services (1993–1994) Minister for Housing and Regional Development (1994–1996)
Tanya Plibersek Tanya Plibersek Tanya Joan Plibersek, MP , is an Australian politician with the Australian Labor Party, and Federal Minister for Social Inclusion and Minister for Human Services. She has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the seat of Sydney, New South Wales...	Australian Labor Party	3 December 2007 – 14 September 2010	Minister for Housing
Mark Arbib Mark Arbib Mark Victor Arbib is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of New South Wales. He was the Australian Labor Party State Secretary of the New South Wales branch from 2004 to 2007...	Australian Labor Party	14 September 2010	Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness

List of Ministers for Works

Minister	Party affiliation	Period	Ministerial Title
Hubert Lazzarini Hubert Lazzarini Hubert Peter Lazzarini was an Australian politician, holding the division of Werriwa as the Australian Labor Party member for most years from 1919 until his death....	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...	1945–1946	Minister for Works and Housing
Nelson Lemmon Nelson Lemmon Nelson Lemmon was an Australian politician and government minister. He was responsible for establishing the Snowy Mountains Scheme....	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...	1946–1949
Richard Casey Richard Casey, Baron Casey Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey KG GCMG CH DSO MC KStJ PC was an Australian politician, diplomat and the 16th Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:...	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...	1949–1951
Wilfrid Kent Hughes Wilfrid Kent Hughes Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes KBE, MVO, MC was an Australian soldier, Olympian and Olympic Games organiser, author and federal and state government minister.Kent Hughes was born in Melbourne to an upper middle-class family...	Liberal Party	1951–1952
Wilfrid Kent Hughes	Liberal Party	1952–1956	Minister for Works
Allen Fairhall Allen Fairhall Sir Allen Fairhall KBE was an Australian politician and Member of the Parliament of Australia for the Division of Paterson from 1949 to 1969. During that period he held a number of ministerial portfolios, most notably Supply and Defence.Fairhall was born at Morpeth and attended East Maitland...	Liberal Party	1956–1958
Gordon Freeth Gordon Freeth Sir Gordon Freeth KBE was an Australian politician.Freeth was born in Angaston, South Australia, the son of Robert Freeth and Gladys Mary Snashall...	Liberal Party	1958–1963
John Gorton John Gorton Sir John Grey Gorton, GCMG, AC, CH , Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia.-Early life:...	Liberal Party	1963–1967
Bert Kelly Bert Kelly Charles Robert "Bert" Kelly CMG , was an Australian politician and government minister. He was influential in moving Australian political parties away from support for high-tariff policies....	Liberal Party	1967–1968
Reg Wright	Liberal Party	1968–1972
Gough Whitlam Gough Whitlam Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC , known as Gough Whitlam , served as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia. Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party to power at the 1972 election and retained government at the 1974 election, before being dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr at the climax of the...	Australian Labor Party	1972
Jim Cavanagh	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...	1972–1973
Les Johnson Les Johnson The Honourable Leslie Royston "Les" Johnson AM is a former Australian politician, minister and High Commissioner.In his mid-twenties, Les Johnson was elected as a Councillor for Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, where he served for five years.Johnson was elected for the Australian Labor Party as...	Australian Labor Party	1973
Les Johnson	Australian Labor Party	1973–1975	Minister for Housing and Construction
Joe Riordan Joe Riordan Joseph Martin "Joe" Riordan AO is a former Australian politician and briefly government minister.A Catholic, Riordan was born in Sydney and educated at Patrician Brothers School and Marist Brother College in that city. He married Patricia Watkins in 1955; they have four sons and two daughters...	Australian Labor Party	1975
John Carrick John 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...	Liberal Party	1975
John McLeay	Liberal Party	1975–1978	Minister for Construction
Ray Groom Ray Groom Raymond 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...	Liberal Party	1978–1980
Tom McVeigh Tom McVeigh Daniel Thomas "Tom" McVeigh is a former Australian politician.McVeigh was born in Allora, Queensland and was a farmer before entering the Australian Parliament...	Liberal Party	1980–1982
Ralph Hunt Ralph 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...	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...	1982–1983	Minister for Transport and Construction
Chris Hurford Chris Hurford Christopher John "Chris" Hurford, AO, was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives seat of Adelaide from 1969 to 1987...	Australian Labor Party	1983–1984	Minister for Housing and Construction
Stewart West Stewart West Stewart John West , Australian politician, was the Australian Labor Party member for the Division of Cunningham in New South Wales....	Australian Labor Party	1984–1987
David Beddall David Beddall David Peter Beddall is a former Australian politician.Beddall was born in Manchester, England and was employed by the Commonwealth Bank and was a self-employed commercial finance consultant before he entered parliament. He was elected as Australian Labor Party member for the seat of Rankin in...	Australian Labor Party	1991–1993	Minister for Small Business, Construction and Customs
Chris Schacht Chris Schacht Christopher Cleland Schacht is a former Australian politician and member of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party . He was born in Melbourne and educated at the University of Adelaide and Wattle Park Teachers College.Schacht's political career started as a state party official...	Australian Labor Party	1994–1996	Minister for Small Business, Customs and Construction

List of Ministers for Urban and Regional Development

Minister	Party affiliation	Period
Tom Uren Tom Uren Thomas 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:...	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...	1972–1975
John Carrick John 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...	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

External links

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