Minister for Communications (Australia)
Minister for Communications | |
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Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy | |
Style | The Honourable |
Appointer | Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Australia |
Inaugural holder | John Forrest |
Formation | 1 January 1901 |
The Australian Minister for Communications is Senator the Honourable Mitch Fifield.
In the Government of Australia, the minister administers the portfolio through the Department of Communications and a range of other government agencies.
The minister has overall responsibility for broadcasting, the information and communications technology industry, the information economy, and telecommunications within Australia.
Contents
Scope
Portfolio agencies and bodies include:
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Australian Communications and Media Authority
- Australian Postal Corporation
- Special Broadcasting Service
- NBNCo
List of ministers
The minister responsible for telecommunications policy has had various titles. From 1901 until December 1975 it was the Postmaster-General, who administered the portfolio through the Postmaster-General's Department.
The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for Communications, or any of its precedent titles:[1][2]
Order | Minister | Party | Prime Minister | Title | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
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1 | John Forrest | Protectionist | Barton | Postmaster-General | 1 January 1901 | 17 January 1901 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |
2 | James Drake | 5 February 1901 | 10 August 1903 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
3 | Philip Fysh | 10 August 1903 | 24 September 1903 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
Deakin | 24 September 1903 | 27 April 1904 | ||||||
4 | Hugh Mahon | Labor | Watson | 27 April 1904 | 17 August 1904 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
5 | Sydney Smith | Free Trade | Reid | 17 August 1904 | 5 July 1905 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
6 | Austin Chapman | Protectionist | Deakin | 5 July 1905 | 30 July 1907 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
7 | Samuel Mauger | 30 July 1907 | 13 November 1908 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
8 | Josiah Thomas | Labor | Fisher | 13 November 1908 | 2 June 1909 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
9 | John Quick | Protectionist | Deakin | 2 June 1909 | 29 April 1910 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
10 | Josiah Thomas | Labor | Fisher | 29 April 1910 | 14 October 1911 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
11 | Charles Frazer | 14 October 1911 | 24 June 1913 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
12 | Agar Wynne | Commonwealth Liberal | Cook | 24 June 1913 | 17 September 1914 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
13 | William Spence | Labor | Fisher | 17 September 1914 | 27 October 1915 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
14 | William Webster | Hughes | 27 October 1915 | 14 November 1916 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
National Labor | 14 November 1916 | 17 February 1917 | ||||||
Nationalist | 17 February 1917 | 3 February 1920 | ||||||
15 | George Wise | 3 February 1920 | 21 December 1921 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
16 | Alexander Poynton | 21 December 1921 | 5 February 1923 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
17 | William Gibson | Bruce | 5 February 1923 | 22 October 1929 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
18 | Joseph Lyons | Labor | Scullin | 22 October 1929 | 4 February 1931 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
19 | Albert Green | 4 February 1931 | 6 January 1932 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
20 | James Fenton | United Australia | Lyons | 6 January 1932 | 13 October 1932 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
21 | Archdale Parkhill | 13 October 1932 | 12 October 1934 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
22 | Alexander McLachlan | 12 October 1934 | 7 November 1938 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
23 | Archie Cameron | Country | 7 November 1938 | 7 April 1939 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
Page | 7 April 1939 | 26 April 1939 | ||||||
24 | Eric Harrison | United Australia | Menzies | 26 April 1939 | 14 March 1940 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
25 | Harold Thorby | Country | 14 March 1940 | 28 October 1940 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
26 | George McLeay | United Australia | 28 October 1940 | 26 June 1941 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
27 | Thomas Collins | Country | 26 June 1941 | 29 August 1941 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
Fadden | 29 August 1941 | 7 October 1941 | ||||||
28 | Bill Ashley | Labor | Curtin | 7 October 1941 | 2 February 1945 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
29 | Don Cameron | 2 February 1945 | 6 July 1945 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
Forde | 6 July 1945 | 13 July 1945 | ||||||
Chifley | 13 July 1945 | 19 December 1949 | ||||||
30 | Larry Anthony | Country | Menzies | 19 December 1949 | 11 January 1956 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
31 | Charles Davidson | 11 January 1956 | 18 December 1963 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
32 | Alan Hulme | Liberal | 18 December 1963 | 26 January 1966 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
Holt | 26 January 1966 | 19 December 1967 | ||||||
McEwen | 19 December 1967 | 10 January 1968 | ||||||
Gorton | 10 January 1968 | 10 March 1971 | ||||||
McMahon | 10 March 1971 | 5 December 1972 | ||||||
33 | Lance Barnard1 | Labor | Whitlam | 5 December 1972 | 19 December 1972 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
34 | Lionel Bowen | 19 December 1972 | 12 June 1974 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
35 | Reg Bishop | 12 June 1974 | 11 November 1975 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
36 | Peter Nixon | National Country | Fraser | 11 November 1975 | 22 December 1975 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
37 | Victor Garland | Liberal | Minister for Post and Telecommunications | 22 December 1975 | 6 December 1976 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||
38 | Eric Robinson | 6 December 1976 | 20 December 1977 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
39 | Tony Staley | 20 December 1977 | 3 November 1980 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
40 | Ian Sinclair | National Country | Minister for Communications | 3 November 1980 | 7 May 1982 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
41 | Neil Brown | Liberal | 7 May 1982 | 11 March 1983 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
42 | Michael Duffy | Labor | Hawke | 11 March 1983 | 24 July 1987 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
43 | Gareth Evans | Minister for Transport and Communications2 | 24 July 1987 | 2 September 1988 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
44 | Ralph Willis | 2 September 1988 | 4 April 1990 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
45 | Kim Beazley | 4 April 1990 | 9 December 1991 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
46 | John Kerin | 9 December 1991 | 20 December 1991 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
Keating | 20 December 1991 | 27 December 1991 | ||||||
47 | Graham Richardson | 27 December 1991 | 18 May 1992 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
48 | Bob Collins | 18 May 1992 | 23 December 1993 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
49 | Michael Lee | Minister for Communications | 23 December 1993 | 30 January 1994 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||
Minister for Communications and the Arts | 30 January 1994 | 11 March 1996 | ||||||
50 | Richard Alston | Liberal | Howard | 11 March 1996 | 9 October 1997 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||
Minister for Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts | 9 October 1997 | 21 October 1998 | ||||||
Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts | 21 October 1998 | 7 October 2003 | ||||||
51 | Daryl Williams | 7 October 2003 | 18 July 2004 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
52 | Helen Coonan | 18 July 2004 | 3 December 2007 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
53 | Stephen Conroy | Labor | Rudd | Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy |
3 December 2007 | 24 June 2010 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
Gillard | 24 June 2010 | 1 July 2013 | ||||||
54 | Anthony Albanese | Rudd | 1 July 2013 | 18 September 2013 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
55 | Malcolm Turnbull | Liberal | Abbott | Minister for Communications | 18 September 2013 | 14 September 2015 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
Turnbull | 15 September 2015 | 21 September 2015 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||||
56 | Mitch Fifield | 21 September 2015 | Incumbent | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days |
Notes
- 1 Barnard served as part of a two-man ministry together with Gough Whitlam for fourteen days, until the full ministry was commissioned.
- 2 On 24 July 1987 , the third Hawke ministry implemented a two-level ministerial structure, with distinctions drawn between senior and junior ministers. This arrangement has been continued by subsequent ministries.[1] Junior ministers are shown in the table below.
List of junior ministers within the portfolio
On 24 July 1987
, the third Hawke Ministry implemented a two-level ministerial structure, with distinctions drawn between senior and junior ministers. This arrangement has been continued by subsequent ministries; however, junior ministers have been appointed in the telecommunications portfolio on only four occasions. Senior ministers are shown in the table above.The following individuals have been appointed as junior ministers in the telecommunications portfolio, reporting to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, or any of its precedent titles:[1][2]
Order | Minister | Party affiliation | Prime Minister | Ministerial title | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
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1 | Gary Punch | Labor | Hawke | Minister for Telecommunications and Aviation Support | 24 July 1987 | 28 March 1989 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |
2 | Ros Kelly | 6 April 1989 | 4 April 1990 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
3 | David Beddall | Labor | Keating | Minister for Communications | 24 March 1993 | 23 December 1993 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |
4 | Sharon Bird | Labor | Rudd | Minister for Regional Communications | 1 July 2013 | 18 September 2013 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days |
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- AUBroadband — Information about various broadband plans and availability of fibre optic broadband in Australia