List of speakers of the Australian House of Representatives
Below is a List of Speakers of the Australian House of Representatives.
The parties shown are those to which the Speakers belonged at the time they held office.
List
No. | Name | Portrait | Party | State | Term of Office | Comments | ||
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style="background:Template:Independent politician/meta/color"| | 1 | Sir Frederick Holder | Independent | South Australia | 9 May 1901 | 23 July 1909 | Resigned from Free Trade Party upon election as speaker. Died in office. | |
style="background:Template:Commonwealth Liberal Party/meta/color"| | 2 | Dr Carty Salmon | Liberal | Victoria | 28 July 1909 | 19 February 1910 | ||
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | 3 | Charles McDonald | Labor | Queensland | 1 July 1910 | 23 April 1913 | First time in role. | |
style="background:Template:Commonwealth Liberal Party/meta/color"| | 4 | Sir Elliot Johnson | Liberal | New South Wales | 9 July 1913 | 30 July 1914 | First time in role. | |
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | (3) | Charles McDonald | Labor | Queensland | 8 October 1914 | 26 March 1917 | Second time in role. First Speaker to serve multiple terms. | |
style="background:Template:Nationalist Party (Australia)/meta/color"| | (4) | Sir Elliot Johnson | Nationalist | New South Wales | 14 June 1917 | 6 November 1922 | Second time in role. Most recent Speaker to serve multiple terms. | |
style="background:Template:Nationalist Party (Australia)/meta/color"| | 5 | William Watt | Nationalist | Victoria | 28 February 1923 | 3 October 1925 | First former government minister to become Speaker. | |
style="background:Template:Nationalist Party (Australia)/meta/color"| | 6 | Sir Littleton Groom | Nationalist | Queensland | 13 January 1927 | 16 September 1929 | Defeated in his own seat. | |
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | 7 | Norman Makin | Labor | South Australia | 20 November 1929 | 27 November 1931 | ||
style="background:Template:United Australia Party/meta/color"| | 8 | George Mackay | United Australia | Queensland | 17 February 1932 | 7 August 1934 | ||
style="background:Template:United Australia Party/meta/color"| | 9 | Sir George John Bell | United Australia | Tasmania | 23 October 1934 | 27 August 1940 | ||
style="background:Template:United Australia Party/meta/color"| | 10 | Walter Nairn | United Australia | Western Australia | 20 November 1940 | 21 June 1943 | Remained as speaker following the mid-term fall of the Fadden minority government in 1941, until defeated in his own seat at the 1943 election. | |
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | 11 | Sol Rosevear | Labor | New South Wales | 22 June 1943 | 31 October 1949 | ||
style="background:Template:Liberal Party of Australia/meta/color"| | 12 | Archie Cameron | Liberal | South Australia | 22 February 1950 | 9 August 1956 | Died in office. | |
style="background:Template:Liberal Party of Australia/meta/color"| | 13 | Sir John "Jack" McLeay | Liberal | South Australia | 29 August 1956 | 31 October 1966 | ||
style="background:Template:Liberal Party of Australia/meta/color"| | 14 | Sir William Aston | Liberal | New South Wales | 21 February 1967 | 2 November 1972 | Defeated in his own seat. | |
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | 15 | Jim Cope | Labor | New South Wales | 27 February 1973 | 27 February 1975 | Resigned after the Whitlam government refused to support his naming of the Minister for Labour and Immigration, Clyde Cameron. | |
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | 16 | Gordon Scholes | Labor | Victoria | 27 February 1975 | 11 November 1975 | ||
style="background:Template:Liberal Party of Australia/meta/color"| | 17 | Sir Billy Snedden | Liberal | Victoria | 17 February 1976 | 4 February 1983 | ||
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | 18 | Dr Harry Jenkins Sr. | Labor | Victoria | 21 April 1983 | 20 December 1985 | First Speaker whose son was a later Speaker. | |
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | 19 | Joan Child | Labor | Victoria | 11 February 1986 | 28 August 1989 | First female Speaker. | |
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | 20 | Leo McLeay | Labor | New South Wales | 29 August 1989 | 8 February 1993 | ||
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | 21 | Stephen Martin | Labor | New South Wales | 4 May 1993 | 29 January 1996 | ||
style="background:Template:Liberal Party of Australia/meta/color"| | 22 | Bob Halverson | Liberal | Victoria | 30 April 1996 | 3 March 1998 | ||
style="background:Template:National Party of Australia/meta/color"| | 23 | Ian Sinclair | National | New South Wales | 4 March 1998 | 31 August 1998 | ||
style="background:Template:Liberal Party of Australia/meta/color"| | 24 | Neil Andrew | Liberal | South Australia | 10 November 1998 | 31 August 2004 | ||
style="background:Template:Liberal Party of Australia/meta/color"| | 25 | David Hawker | Liberal | Victoria | 16 November 2004 | 17 October 2007 | ||
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | 26 | Harry Jenkins Jr. | Labor | Victoria | 12 February 2008 | 24 November 2011[1] | First Speaker whose father was a Speaker. | |
style="background:Template:Independent politician/meta/color"| | 27 | Peter Slipper | Independent | Queensland | 24 November 2011[2] | 9 October 2012[2] | Resigned from the Liberal National Party the day after his election as Speaker. Resigned the speakership in the midst of court proceedings. First independent Speaker since Frederick Holder. | |
style="background:Template:Australian Labor Party/meta/color"| | 28 | Anna Burke | Labor | Victoria | 9 October 2012[3] | 12 November 2013 | ||
style="background:Template:Liberal Party of Australia/meta/color"| | 29 | Bronwyn Bishop | Liberal | New South Wales | 12 November 2013 | 2 August 2015 | First non-Labor female Speaker (third overall). Stood down after much public outcry about profligate use of taxpayer funded travel benefits.[4][5][6] | |
style="background:Template:Liberal Party of Australia/meta/color"| | 30 | Tony Smith | Liberal | Victoria | 10 August 2015 | Incumbent |
References
- ^ "Biography for Jenkins, Henry (Harry) Alfred". Australian Parliamentary Library. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
- ^ a b "Slipper, Peter Neil, (the Hon)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
- ^ "Biography for Burke, Anna Elizabeth". Australian Parliamentary Library. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
- ^ Crowe, David (2 August 2015). "Bronwyn Bishop resigns, PM launches review of entitlements". The Australian. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ "Bronwyn Bishop resigns as Speaker; Tony Abbott announces review of entitlements system". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
- ^ "Standing by Bronwyn Bishop: How Tony Abbott's stubbornness could have prompted his second brush with political death". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 August 2015.