Minister for Defence (Australia)

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List of Australian Ministers for Defence (see Australian Defence Force, Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army, and Royal Australian Air Force.)

Order	Minister	Party affiliation	Period
1	James Dickson	Protectionist Party	1901
2	John Forrest	Protectionist Party	1901
3	James Drake	Protectionist Party	1901-1903
4	Austin Chapman	Protectionist Party	1903-1904
5	Anderson Dawson	Australian Labor Party	1904
6	James McCay	Protectionist Party	1904-1905
7	Thomas Playford	Protectionist Party	1905-1907
8	Thomas Ewing	Protectionist Party	1907-1908
9	George Pearce	Australian Labor Party	1908-1909
10	Joseph Cook	Protectionist Party	1909-1910
11	George Pearce	Australian Labor Party	1910-1913
12	Edward Millen	Commonwealth Liberal Party	1913-1914
13	George Pearce	Australian Labor Party/Nationalist Party of Australia	1914-1921
14	Walter Massy-Greene	Nationalist Party of Australia	1921-1923
15	Eric Bowden	Nationalist Party of Australia	1923-1925
16	Neville Howse	Nationalist Party of Australia	1925-1927
17	Thomas William Glasgow	Nationalist Party of Australia	1927-1929
18	Albert Green	Australian Labor Party	1929-1931
19	John Daley	Australian Labor Party	1931
20	Joseph Benedict Chifley	Australian Labor Party	1931-1932
21	George Pearce	United Australia Party	1932-1934
22	Robert Parkhill	United Australia Party	1934-1937
23	Joseph Lyons	United Australia Party	1937
24	Harold Thorby	Country Party	1937-1938
25	Geoffrey Street	United Australia Party	1938-1939
26	John Curtin	Australian Labor Party	1942-1945
27	Jack Beasley	Australian Labor Party	1945-1946
28	Frank Forde	Australian Labor Party	1946
29	John Dedman	Australian Labor Party	1946-1949
30	Eric Harrison	Liberal Party of Australia	1949-1950
31	Philip Macbride	Liberal Party of Australia	1950-1958
32	Athol Townley	Liberal Party of Australia	1958-1963
33	Paul Hasluck	Liberal Party of Australia	1963-1964
34	Shane Paltridge	Liberal Party of Australia	1964-1966
35	Allen Fairhall	Liberal Party of Australia	1966-1969
36	Malcolm Fraser	Liberal Party of Australia	1969-1971
37	John Gorton	Liberal Party of Australia	1971
38	David Fairbairn	Liberal Party of Australia	1971-1972
39	Lance Barnard	Australian Labor Party	1972-1975
40	William Morrison	Australian Labor Party	1975
41	Jim Killen	Liberal Party of Australia	1975-1982
42	Ian Sinclair	National Country Party	1982-1983
43	Gordon Scholes	Australian Labor Party	1983-1984
44	Kim Beazley	Australian Labor Party	1984-1990
45	Robert Ray	Australian Labor Party	1990-1996
46	Ian McLachlan	Liberal Party of Australia	1996-1998
47	John Moore	Liberal Party of Australia	1998-2001
48	Peter Reith	Liberal Party of Australia	2001
49	Robert Hill	Liberal Party of Australia	2001-2006
50	Brendan Nelson	Liberal Party of Australia	2006-