2007 Australian incumbents

"See also:"
2006 Australian incumbents,
Events in Australia in 2007,
2008 Australian incumbents, incumbents around the world in 2007----

Federal government

*Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II
*Governor General - Michael Jeffery

Cabinet

The Australian Labor Party won the election on November 24.
*Prime Minister - John Howard, then Kevin Rudd

*Deputy Prime Minister - Mark Vaile, then Julia Gillard
*Minister for Transport and Regional Services - Mark Vaille
*Treasurer - Peter Costello
*Minister for Trade - Mark Vaile
*Minister for Foreign Affairs - Alexander Downer
*Minister for Defence - Brendan Nelson
*Minister for Finance and Administration - Nick Minchin
*Minister for Health and Ageing - Tony Abbott
*Attorney General - Philip Ruddock
*Minister for the Environment and Heritage - Ian Campbell
*Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts - Helen Coonan
*Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Peter McGauran
*Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs - Amanda Vanstone
*Minister for Education, Science and Training - Julie Bishop
*Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs - Mal Brough
*Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources - Ian Macfarlane
*Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations - Kevin Andrews

Other Ministers

*Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation - Eric Abetz
*Minister for the Arts and Sport - Rod Kemp
*Minister for Human Services - Joe Hockey
*Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer - Peter Dutton
*Special Minister of State - Gary Nairn
*Minister for Justice and Customs - Chris Ellison
*Minister for Veterans' Affairs - Bruce Billson
*Minister for Community Services - John Cobb
*Minister for Ageing - Christopher Pyne
*Minister for Employment Services - Fran Bailey
*Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads - Jim Lloyd
*Minister for Vocational and Technical Education: Gary Hardgrave
*Minister for Workforce Participation: Peter Dutton

Members of Parliament

See: 41st Australian parliament

Opposition leaders

*Australian Labor Party - Kevin Rudd
*Australian Greens - Bob Brown
*Australian Democrats - Lyn Allison
*Family First - Steve Fielding

High Court justices

*Chief Justice: Murray Gleeson
*William Gummow
*Michael Kirby
*Kenneth Hayne
*Ian Callinan, then Susan Kiefel
*Dyson Heydon
*Susan Crennan

Other

*Speaker of the House of Representatives - David Hawker
*President of the Senate - Paul Calvert, then Alan Ferguson
*Chairman of the Reserve Bank of Australia - Glenn Stevens
*Chief of the Australian Defence Force - Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, AO

tates

Premiers

*Premier of New South Wales - Morris Iemma
*Premier of South Australia - Mike Rann
*Premier of Queensland - Peter Beattie, then Anna Bligh
*Premier of Tasmania - Paul Lennon
*Premier of Western Australia - Alan Carpenter
*Premier of Victoria - Steve Bracks, then John Brumby
*Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory - Jon Stanhope
*Chief Minister of the Northern Territory - Clare Martin, then Paul Henderson

Governors

*Governor of New South Wales - Marie Bashir
*Governor of South Australia - Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, then Rear Adm. Kevin Scarce
*Governor of Queensland - Quentin Bryce
*Governor of Tasmania - William Cox
*Governor of Western Australia - Ken Michael
*Governor of Victoria - David de Kretser
*Administrator of the Northern Territory - Ted Egan, then Tom Pauling

Lord Mayors

*Adelaide - Michael Harbison
*Brisbane - Campbell Newman
*Darwin - Peter Adamson, then Garry Lambert
*Hobart - Rob Valentine
*Melbourne - John So
*Perth - Peter Nattrass, then Lisa Scaffidi
*Sydney - Clover Moore

Religious leaders

*Roman Catholic Church
**Roman Catholic Bishop of Adelaide - Archbishop Philip Wilson
**Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane - Archbishop John Bathersby
**Roman Catholic Bishop of Hobart - Archbishop Adrian Doyle
**Roman Catholic Bishop of Melbourne - Archbishop Denis Hart
**Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth - Archbishop Barry Hickey
**Roman Catholic Bishop of Sydney - Cardinal Archbishop George Pell
*Uniting Church in Australia
**President of the Uniting Church in Australia - Reverend Dean Drayton
*Anglican Church of Australia
**Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia - Archbishop Phillip Aspinall
**Anglican Bishop of Adelaide - Archbishop Jeffrey Driver
**Anglican Bishop of Brisbane - Archbishop Phillip Aspinall
**Anglican Bishop of Melbourne - Archbishop Peter Watson
**Anglican Bishop of Perth - Archbishop Roger Herft
**Anglican Bishop of Sydney - Archbishop Peter Jensen