Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Australia)

Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Australia)
Minister for Veterans Affair
Incumbent
Warren Snowdon

since 14 September 2010
Style The Honourable
Appointer

Governor-General on the recommendation of the

Prime Minister of Australia
Inaugural holder Edward Millen
Formation 1917

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.

The current Minister is Warren Snowdon, who was appointed on 14 September 2010, following the Labor Party's win at the 2010 election. He is responsible for the VeteransAffairs portfolio, including:[1]

Australian Ministers for Veterans' Affairs

The portfolio was created by Billy Hughes. It was called Minister for Repatriation from the appointment of the first Minister, Edward Millen on 28 September 1917 to deal with ex-soldiers returning from World War I. Stanley Bruce chose not to include a Minister for Repatriation in his ministry (192329), but his successor James Scullin restored it, and it has continued ever since, under different names. Gough Whitlam changed the portfolio title to Minister for Repatriation and Compensation in 1974; Malcolm Fraser restored it to its original title in 1975, and then changed it to Minister for Veterans' Affairs on 5 October 1976, Peter Durack being the last minister under the old title and the first under the new.

Between 1932 and 1938 there were also a Minister in charge of War Service Homes. This position was revived with Herbert Collett's appointment as Minister without portfolio administering War Service Homes in 1939, but was subsumed by Hubert Lazzarini's appointment as Minister for Works and Housing in 1945.

Minister Party affiliation Period Prime
Minister
Ministerial Title
Edward Millen Nationalist Party 19171923 Hughes Minister for Repatriation
Frank Anstey Australian Labor Party 19291931 Scullin
John McNeill 19311932
Charles Hawker United Australia Party 1932 Lyons
Charles Marr 19321934
Billy Hughes 19341935
Joseph Lyons 19351936
Billy Hughes 19361937
Harry Foll 19371939
1939 Page
Eric Harrison 19391940 Menzies
Geoffrey Street 1940
Philip McBride 1940
George McLeay 19401941
Herbert Collett 1941
1941 Fadden
Charles Frost Australian Labor Party 19411945 Curtin
1945 Forde
19451946 Chifley
Claude Barnard 19461949
Walter Cooper Country Party 19491960 Menzies
Frederick Osborne Liberal Party 19601961
Reginald Swartz 19611964
Colin McKellar 19641966
19661967 Holt
19671968 McEwen
19681969 Gorton
Mac Holten 19691971
19711972 McMahon
Lance Barnard Australian Labor Party 1972 Whitlam
Reg Bishop 19721974
John Wheeldon 19741975 Minister for Repatriation and Compensation
Don Chipp Liberal Party 1975 Fraser
Kevin Newman 19751976 Minister for Repatriation
Peter Durack 1976
19761977 Minister for Veterans' Affairs
Victor Garland[2] 19771978
Evan Adermann National Party 19781980
Tony Messner Liberal Party 19801983
Arthur Gietzelt Australian Labor Party 19831987 Hawke
Ben Humphreys 19871991
19911993 Keating
John Faulkner 19931994
Con Sciacca 19941996
Bruce Scott National Party 19962001 Howard
Danna Vale Liberal Party 20012004
De-Anne Kelly National Party 20042006
Bruce Billson Liberal Party 20062007
Alan Griffin Australian Labor Party 20072010 Rudd
2010 Gillard
Warren Snowdon 2010

Ministers in charge of War Service Homes

Minister Party affiliation Period Prime
Minister
Ministerial Title
Josiah Francis United Australia Party 19321934 Lyons Minister in charge of War Service Homes
Harold Thorby Country Party 19341936 Minister without portfolio in charge of War Service Homes
James Hunter Country Party 19361937
Harry Foll United Australia Party 19371938 Minister in charge of War Service Homes
Herbert Collett United Australia Party 19391940 Menzies Minister without portfolio administering War Service Homes
19401940 Minister without portfolio in charge of War Service Homes
19401940 Minister in charge of War Service Homes
19401941 Minister without portfolio administering War Service Homes
Charles Frost Australian Labor Party 19411945 Curtin Minister in charge of War Service Homes
19411945 Forde

References

  1. ^ "Minister for Veterans' Affairs". Government of Australia. http://minister.dva.gov.au/. Retrieved 2007-12-09. 
  2. ^ Malcolm Fraser initially chose Senator Glen Sheil for the portfolio, and he was sworn in as a member of the Federal Executive Council. But before he was sworn in as a minister, Sheil professed his support for the South African apartheid regime, which was very much at odds with the Fraser government's position. Fraser decided not to proceed with Sheils appointment to the Ministry, and his appointment as an Executive Councillor was terminated. Garland was appointed in his place.

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