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.
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No. | Name | Portrait | Party | State | Term of office | Comments | ||
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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. | ||
2 | Dr Carty Salmon | Liberal | Victoria | 28 July 1909 | 19 February 1910 | |||
3 | Charles McDonald | Labor | Queensland | 1 July 1910 | 23 April 1913 | First time in role. | ||
4 | Sir Elliot Johnson | Liberal | New South Wales | 9 July 1913 | 30 July 1914 | First time in role. | ||
(3) | Charles McDonald | Labor | Queensland | 8 October 1914 | 26 March 1917 | Second time in role. First Speaker to serve multiple terms. | ||
(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. | ||
5 | William Watt | Nationalist | Victoria | 28 February 1923 | 3 October 1925 | First former government minister to become Speaker. | ||
6 | Sir Littleton Groom | Nationalist | Queensland | 13 January 1927 | 16 September 1929 | Defeated in his own seat. | ||
7 | Norman Makin | Labor | South Australia | 20 November 1929 | 27 November 1931 | |||
8 | George Mackay | United Australia | Queensland | 17 February 1932 | 7 August 1934 | |||
9 | Sir George John Bell | United Australia | Tasmania | 23 October 1934 | 27 August 1940 | |||
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. | ||
11 | Sol Rosevear | Labor | New South Wales | 22 June 1943 | 31 October 1949 | |||
12 | Archie Cameron | Liberal | South Australia | 22 February 1950 | 9 August 1956 | Died in office. | ||
13 | Sir John "Jack" McLeay | Liberal | South Australia | 29 August 1956 | 31 October 1966 | |||
14 | Sir William Aston | Liberal | New South Wales | 21 February 1967 | 2 November 1972 | Defeated in his own seat. | ||
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. | ||
16 | Gordon Scholes | Labor | Victoria | 27 February 1975 | 11 November 1975 | |||
17 | Sir Billy Snedden | Liberal | Victoria | 17 February 1976 | 4 February 1983 | |||
18 | Dr Harry Jenkins Sr. | Labor | Victoria | 21 April 1983 | 20 December 1985 | First Speaker whose son was a later Speaker. | ||
19 | Joan Child | Labor | Victoria | 11 February 1986 | 28 August 1989 | First female Speaker. | ||
20 | Leo McLeay | Labor | New South Wales | 29 August 1989 | 8 February 1993 | |||
21 | Stephen Martin | Labor | New South Wales | 4 May 1993 | 29 January 1996 | |||
22 | Bob Halverson | Liberal | Victoria | 30 April 1996 | 3 March 1998 | |||
23 | Ian Sinclair | National | New South Wales | 4 March 1998 | 31 August 1998 | |||
24 | Neil Andrew | Liberal | South Australia | 10 November 1998 | 31 August 2004 | |||
25 | David Hawker | Liberal | Victoria | 16 November 2004 | 17 October 2007 | |||
26 | Harry Jenkins Jr. | Labor | Victoria | 12 February 2008 | 24 November 2011[1] | First Speaker whose father was a Speaker. | ||
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. | ||
28 | Anna Burke | Labor | Victoria | 9 October 2012[3] | 5 August 2013 | |||
29 | Bronwyn Bishop | Liberal | New South Wales | 12 November 2013 | 2 August 2015 | First non-Labor female Speaker (third overall). Stood down after public outcry about profligate use of taxpayer funded travel benefits.[4][5][6] | ||
30 | Tony Smith | Liberal | Victoria | 10 August 2015 | 23 November 2021 | |||
31 | Andrew Wallace | Liberal | Queensland | 23 November 2021 | 26 July 2022 | |||
32 | Milton Dick | Labor | Queensland | 26 July 2022 | Incumbent |
Close
- "Biography for Jenkins, Henry (Harry) Alfred". Australian Parliamentary Library. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
- "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.