Third Bruce Ministry
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The Third Bruce Ministry was the nineteenth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 29 November 1928 to 22 October 1929.
Nationalist Party of Australia
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Nationalist Party of Australia
Nationalist Party of Australia
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...
–Australian 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...
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- Rt Hon Stanley BruceStanley BruceStanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, CH, MC, FRS, PC , was an Australian politician and diplomat, and the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. He was the second Australian granted an hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom, but the first whose peerage was formally created...
, MP: Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs (Nat) - Rt Hon Dr Earle PageEarle PageSir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, GCMG, CH was the 11th Prime Minister of Australia, and is to date the second-longest serving federal parliamentarian in Australian history, with 41 years, 361 days in Parliament.-Early life:...
, MP: Treasurer (CP) - Senator Rt Hon George PearceGeorge PearceSir George Foster Pearce KCVO was an Australian politician who was instrumental in founding the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia....
: Vice-President of the Executive Council (Nat) - Hon William Gibson, MP: Postmaster-General. Minister for Works and Railways (from 10 December 1928) (CP)
- Hon Sir Neville HowseNeville HowseMajor General Sir Neville Reginald Howse VC, KCB, KCMG, KStJ was a British-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces...
, VCVictoria CrossThe Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
, KCMG, MP: Minister for Health (Nat) - Hon Charles Marr, MP: Honorary Minister (Nat)
- Hon John Latham, KC, MP: Attorney-General. Minister for Industry (from 10 December 1928) (Nat)
- Senator Hon Sir William GlasgowThomas William GlasgowSir William Glasgow, KCB, CMG, DSO , was an Australian Army Major General in World War I and member of the Australian Senate, representing Queensland as a Nationalist Party member from 1919 - 1931.-Early life and career:...
, KCB CMG: Minister for Defence (Nat) - Hon Thomas PatersonThomas PatersonThomas Paterson was an Australian farmer and politician.Paterson was born in Aston, near Birmingham, England and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Ayr Grammar School. He became a shoe salesman in 1897 and later a branch manager, but resigned in 1908 to study farming...
, MP: Minister for Markets (to 10 December 1928), Minister for Markets and Transport (from 10 December 1928) (CP) - Senator Hon Alexander McLachlanAlexander McLachlanAlexander John McLachlan was an Australian politician.McLachlan was born in Naracoorte, South Australia and educated at Hamilton Academy, and Mount Gambier High School. He was an articled clerk in Mount Gambier and completed the Final Certificate in Law at the University of Adelaide in 1895. He...
: Honorary Minister (Nat) - Hon Aubrey AbbottAubrey AbbottCharles Lydiard Aubrey Abbott was an Australian politician and administrator of the Northern Territory. He was born at St Leonards, Sydney, to Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, a magistrate, and Marion, née Lydiard...
, MP: Minister for Home and Territories (to 10 December 1928), Minister for Home Affairs (from 10 December 1928) (CP) - Hon Henry Somer Gullett, MP: Minister for Trade and Customs (Nat)
- Senator Hon James OgdenJames OgdenJames Ernest Ogden was an Australian politician who was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Australian Senate....
: Honorary Minister (Nat)