List of 2007 Australian incumbents
This is a list of 2007 Australian incumbents.
Federal government
Cabinet
The Australian Labor Party won the election on November 24.
- Prime Minister - John Howard, then Kevin Rudd
- Deputy Prime Minister - Mark Vaile, to 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, to Nigel Scullion
- Minister for Ageing - Christopher Pyne
- Minister for Small Business and Tourism - Fran Bailey
- Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads - Jim Lloyd
- Minister for Vocational and Further Education - Gary Hardgrave, to Andrew Robb
- Minister for Workforce Participation - Peter Dutton
Members of Parliament
See: 41st Australian parliament
And: Members of the Australian Senate, 2005–2008
Opposition leaders
- Australian Labor Party - Kevin Rudd
- Australian Greens - Bob Brown
- Australian Democrats - Lyn Allison
- Family First - Steve Fielding
Presiding officers
- Speaker of the House of Representatives - David Hawker
- President of the Senate - Paul Calvert, to Alan Ferguson
High Court justices
- Chief Justice - Murray Gleeson
- William Gummow
- Michael Kirby
- Kenneth Hayne
- Ian Callinan, then Susan Kiefel
- Dyson Heydon
- Susan Crennan
Other
- Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia - Glenn Stevens
- Chief of the Australian Defence Force - Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, AO
States
Premiers
- Premier of New South Wales - Morris Iemma
- Premier of South Australia - Mike Rann
- Premier of Queensland - Peter Beattie, to Anna Bligh
- Premier of Tasmania - Paul Lennon
- Premier of Western Australia - Alan Carpenter
- Premier of Victoria - Steve Bracks, to John Brumby
- Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory - Jon Stanhope
- Chief Minister of the Northern Territory - Clare Martin, to Paul Henderson
Governors
- Governor of New South Wales - Marie Bashir
- Governor of South Australia - Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, to 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, to 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 Leo 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
- 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