List of 2008 Australian incumbents

This is a list of 2008 Australian incumbents.

Federal government

• Head of State – Queen Elizabeth II
• Governor General – Michael Jeffery, to Quentin Bryce AC, CVO

Cabinet

• Prime Minister – Kevin Rudd
• Deputy Prime Minister – Julia Gillard

Also:

• Minister for Education
• Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

• Minister for Infrastructure and Transport – Anthony Albanese
• Treasurer – Wayne Swan
• Minister for Trade – Simon Crean
• Minister for Foreign Affairs – Stephen Smith
• Minister for Defence – Joel Fitzgibbon
• Minister for Finance and Deregulation – Lindsay Tanner
• Minister for Health and Ageing – Nicola Roxon
• Attorney General – Robert McClelland
• Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts – Peter Garrett
• Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy – Stephen Conroy
• Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry – Tony Burke
• Minister for Immigration and Citizenship – Chris Evans
• Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs – Jenny Macklin
• Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research – Kim Carr
• Special Minister of State – John Faulkner
• Minister for Climate Change and Water – Penny Wong
• Minister for Human Services – Joe Ludwig
• Minister for Resources and Energy – Martin Ferguson

Also Minister for Tourism

Other Ministers

• Minister for Home Affairs – Bob Debus
• Minister for Youth and Sport – Kate Ellis
• Minister for Defence Science and Personnel – Warren Snowdon
• Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs and Assistant Treasurer – Chris Bowen
• Minister for Veterans' Affairs – Alan Griffin
• Minister for Ageing – Justine Elliot
• Minister for Employment Participation – Brendan O'Connor
• Minister for the Status of Women – Tanya Plibersek

Also Minister for Housing

• Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy – Craig Emerson
• Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law – Nick Sherry

Members of Parliament

See: 42nd Australian parliament

And: Members of the Australian Senate, 2005–2008, to Members of the Australian Senate, 2008–2011

Opposition leaders

• Liberal Party – Brendan Nelson, to Malcolm Turnbull
• National Party – Warren Truss
• Australian Greens – Bob Brown
• Family First – Steve Fielding

Presiding officers

• Speaker of the House of Representatives – Harry Jenkins
• President of the Senate – Alan Ferguson, to John Hogg

High Court justices

• Chief Justice – Murray Gleeson, to Robert French
• William Gummow
• Michael Kirby
• Kenneth Hayne
• Susan Kiefel
• Dyson Heydon
• Susan Crennan

Other

• Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia – Glenn Stevens
• Chief of the Defence Force – Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, AO

States

Premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – Morris Iemma, to Nathan Rees
• Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann
• Premier of Queensland – Anna Bligh
• Premier of Tasmania – Paul Lennon, then David Bartlett
• Premier of Western Australia – Alan Carpenter, to Colin Barnett
• Premier of Victoria – John Brumby
• Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory – Jon Stanhope
• Chief Minister of the Northern Territory – Paul Henderson

Governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Marie Bashir
• Governor of South Australia – Rear Adm. Kevin Scarce
• Governor of Queensland – Quentin Bryce, to Penelope Wensley AC
• Governor of Tasmania – William Cox, to Peter Underwood AC
• Governor of Western Australia – Ken Michael
• Governor of Victoria – David de Kretser
• Administrator of the Northern Territory – Tom Pauling

Lord Mayors

• Adelaide – Michael Harbison
• Brisbane – Campbell Newman
• Darwin – Garry Lambert, to Graeme Sawyer
• Hobart – Rob Valentine
• Melbourne – John So, to Robert Doyle
• Perth – 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
  • President of the Uniting Church in Australia – Reverend Gregor Henderson
• 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 Philip Freier
  • Anglican Bishop of Perth – Archbishop Roger Herft
  • Anglican Bishop of Sydney – Archbishop Peter Jensen
  • Anglican Bishop of Hobart – Archbishop John Harrower