Minister for Indigenous Affairs (Australia)
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Minister for Indigenous Affairs | |
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Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | |
Style | The Honourable |
Appointer | Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Australia |
Inaugural holder | Don Grimes (Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) William Wentworth (Indigenous Affairs) |
Formation | 1984 (Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) 1968 (Indigenous Affairs) |
The Australian Minister for Indigenous Affairs is Senator the Hon. Nigel Scullion, since 18 September 2013.
Contents
Portfolio
In the Government of Australia, the Minister administers the portfolio through the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and a range of other government agencies, including:
- Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination (OIPC)
- Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC)
- Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA)
- Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC)
- Office of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner
- Anindilyakawa Land Council
- Central Land Council
- Northern Land Council
- Tiwi Land Council
List of Ministers for Indigenous Affairs
The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for Indigenous Affairs, or any precedent titles:[1]
Order | Minister | Party affiliation | Prime Minister | Ministerial title | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
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1 | Bill Wentworth | Liberal | Gorton | Minister in charge of Aboriginal Affairs under the Prime Minister | 28 February 1968 | 10 March 1971 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
McMahon | 10 March 1971 | 31 May 1971 | ||||||
2 | Peter Howson | Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts | 31 May 1971 | 5 December 1972 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
3 | Gough Whitlam1 | Labor | Whitlam | 5 December 1972 | 19 December 1972 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
4 | Gordon Bryant | Minister for Aboriginal Affairs | 19 December 1972 | 9 October 1973 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
5 | Jim Cavanagh | 9 October 1973 | 6 June 1975 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
6 | Les Johnson | 6 June 1975 | 11 November 1975 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
7 | Tom Drake-Brockman | National Country | Fraser | 11 November 1975 | 22 December 1975 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
8 | Ian Viner | Liberal | 22 December 1975 | 5 December 1978 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
9 | Fred Chaney | 5 December 1978 | 3 November 1980 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
10 | Peter Baume | 3 November 1980 | 7 May 1982 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
11 | Ian Wilson | 7 May 1982 | 11 March 1983 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
12 | Clyde Holding | Labor | Hawke | 11 March 1983 | 24 July 1987 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
13 | Gerry Hand | 24 July 1987 | 4 April 1990 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
14 | Robert Tickner | 4 April 1990 | 19 December 1991 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs | 19 December 1991 | 20 December 1991 | ||||||
Keating | 20 December 1991 | 11 March 1996 | ||||||
15 | John Herron | Liberal | Howard | 11 March 1996 | 30 January 2001 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
16 | Philip Ruddock | Minister for Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs | 30 January 2001 | 26 November 2001 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs | 26 November 2001 | 7 October 2003 | ||||||
17 | Amanda Vanstone | 7 October 2003 | 27 January 2006 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
18 | Mal Brough | Minister for Families and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs | 27 January 2006 | 3 December 2007 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
19 | Jenny Macklin | Labor | Rudd | Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs | 3 December 2007 | 24 June 2010 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
Gillard | 24 June 2010 | 14 December 2011 | ||||||
Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs | 24 June 2010 | 27 June 2013 | ||||||
Rudd | 27 June 2013 | 18 September 2013 | ||||||
20 | Nigel Scullion | Country Liberal Party | Abbott | Minister for Indigenous Affairs | 18 September 2013 | 15 September 2015 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
Turnbull | 15 September 2015 | incumbent |
List of Ministers assisting the Prime Minister for Reconciliation
Order | Minister | Party | Prime Minister | Title | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
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1 | Philip Ruddock | Liberal | Howard | Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Reconciliation | 21 October 1998 | 30 January 2001 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
Minister for Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs | 30 January 2001 | 26 November 2001 | ||||||
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Reconciliation | 26 November 2001 | 7 October 2003 | ||||||
2 | Amanda Vanstone | 7 October 2003 | 22 October 2004 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
Notes
- 1 Whitlam was one of a two-man ministry consisting of himself and Lance Barnard for two weeks until the full ministry was announced.
See also
References
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