First Lyons Ministry
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The First Lyons Ministry was the twenty-first Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 6 January 1932 to 12 October 1934.

United Australia Party
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...


  • Rt Hon Joseph Lyons
    Joseph Lyons
    Joseph Aloysius Lyons, CH was an Australian politician. He was Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931...

    , MP: Prime Minister, Treasurer. Minister for Commerce (3 October 1932 to 13 October 1932)
  • Hon John Latham, KC: Attorney-General, Minister for External Affairs, Minister for Industry
  • Senator Rt Hon Sir George Pearce
    George Pearce
    Sir George Foster Pearce KCVO was an Australian politician who was instrumental in founding the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia....

    , KCVO: Minister for Defence
  • Hon Henry Somer Gullett, MP: Minister for Trade and Customs (to 14 January 1933)
  • Hon James Fenton
    James Fenton (Australian politician)
    James Edward Fenton CMG was an Australian politician. He is notable for having been appointed a cabinet minister by two governments of different political complexions, but resigning from both governments on matters of principle.Born at Nette Yallock, near Avoca, Victoria, Fenton was educated at a...

    , MP: Postmaster-General (to 13 October 1932)
  • Hon Archdale Parkhill
    Archdale Parkhill
    Sir Robert Archdale Parkhill KCMG was an Australian politician. He was born at Paddington in Sydney to Robert Parkhill, a stonemason, and Isabella, née Chisholm. He attended Paddington and Waverley Public schools and became known as an excellent sportsman, participating in cricket, fencing, boxing...

    , MP: Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Transport (to 12 April 1932). Minister for the Interior (12 April 1932 to 13 October 1932), Postmaster-General (from 13 October 1932)
  • Hon Charles Marr, MP: Minister for Works and Railways (to 12 April 1932), Minister for Health. Minister in charge of Territories (to 24 May 1934), Minister for Repatriation (from 12 April 1932)
  • Hon Charles Hawker
    Charles Hawker
    Charles Allan Seymour Hawker was an Australian politician.Hawker was born near Clare, South Australia and educated at Geelong Grammar School, Hawker and Trinity College, Cambridge, earning Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in 1919 and 1922 respectively. While at Cambridge he enlisted in the...

    , MP: Minister for Markets (to 13 April 1932), Minister for Commerce (13 April 1932 to 23 September 1932), Minister for Repatriation (to 12 April 1932)
  • Senator Hon Alexander McLachlan
    Alexander McLachlan
    Alexander John McLachlan was an Australian politician.McLachlan was born in Naracoorte, South Australia and educated at Hamilton Academy, and Mount Gambier High School. He was an articled clerk in Mount Gambier and completed the Final Certificate in Law at the University of Adelaide in 1895. He...

    : Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister in charge of Development and Scientific and Industrial Research
  • Hon Josiah Francis
    Josiah Francis
    Sir Josiah Francis was an Australian politician and Minister for the Army.Francis was born in Ipswich, Queensland and educated at Christian Brothers' College, Ipswich and was appointed as a clerk in the Queensland Department of Justice in 1908...

    , MP: Assistant Minister for Defence, Minister in charge of War Service Homes
  • Rt Hon Stanley Bruce
    Stanley Bruce
    Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, CH, MC, FRS, PC , was an Australian politician and diplomat, and the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. He was the second Australian granted an hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom, but the first whose peerage was formally created...

    , MP: Assistant Treasurer (to 29 June 1932), Minister without portfolio (29 June 1932 to 26 September 1932), Minister without portfolio, London (26 September 1932 to 6 October 1933)
  • Senator Hon Walter Massy-Greene: Assistant Minister (to 25 September 1933)
  • Hon John Perkins
    John Perkins (Australian politician)
    John Arthur Perkins was an Australian politician and journalist.Perkins was born at Gocup near Tumut, New South Wales and educated at public schools in Tumut and Cooma. He was a member of the Cooma Municipal Council from 1902 to 1909 and mayor in 1904 and 1908...

    , MP: Assistant Minister for Trade and Customs (to 13 October 1932), Minister for the Interior (from 13 October 1932)
  • Hon Allan Guy
    Allan Guy
    James Allan Guy, CBE was an Australian politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in both the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Federal House of Representatives, before leaving to represent the United Australia Party and then the Liberal Party of Australia in both the House of...

    , MP: Assistant Minister for Trade and Customs (from 13 October 1932)
  • Hon Frederick Stewart
    Frederick Stewart (Australian politician)
    Sir Frederick Harold Stewart was an Australian businessman, politician and government minister. His continuing political commitment was to the establishment of a national insurance scheme and the shortening of working hours to improve social conditions during the Great Depression, despite the...

    , MP: Minister for Commerce (from 13 October 1932)
  • Hon Thomas White
    Thomas White (Australian politician)
    Sir Thomas Walter White KBE DFC was an Australian politician.-Early life and World War I:White was born at Hotham, North Melbourne, Victoria and educated at Moreland State School. In August 1914, he began training as an officer in the Australian Flying Corps at Point Cook...

    , MP: Minister for Trade and Customs (from 14 January 1933)
  • Hon Richard Casey
    Richard Casey, Baron Casey
    Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey KG GCMG CH DSO MC KStJ PC was an Australian politician, diplomat and the 16th Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:...

    , MP: Assistant Minister (from 25 September 1933)
  • Senator Hon Sir Harry Lawson
    Harry Lawson
    Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson KCMG , Australian politician, was the 27th Premier of Victoria.Lawson was born in Dunolly, the son of a Presbyterian clergyman of Scottish descent. He was educated at a local school and then briefly Scotch College in Melbourne. He was a noted Australian rules...

    , KCMG: Assistant Minister (from 17 October 1933), Minister in charge of Territories (from 24 May 1934)
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