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Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
- Hon Andrew FisherAndrew FisherAndrew Fisher was an Australian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister on three separate occasions. Fisher's 1910-13 Labor ministry completed a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist Alfred Deakin, the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation...
, MP: Prime Minister and Treasurer - Hon Billy HughesBilly HughesWilliam Morris "Billy" Hughes, CH, KC, MHR , Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923....
, MP: Attorney-General - Senator Hon George PearceGeorge PearceSir George Foster Pearce KCVO was an Australian politician who was instrumental in founding the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia....
: Minister for Defence - Hon Frank TudorFrank TudorFrancis Gwynne "Frank" Tudor was an Australian-born felt hatter and politician. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1916 till his death.-Early life:...
, MP: Minister for Trade and Customs - Hon John ArthurJohn Arthur (Australian politician)John Andrew Arthur was an Australian politician and briefly Minister for External Affairs.Arthur was born in Castlemaine, Victoria, son of a goldminer and spent his childhood in several Victorian goldmining towns. He won a state scholarship allowing him to attend Grenville College, Ballarat for...
, MP: Minister for External Affairs (to 9 December 1914) - Hon William Archibald, MP: Minister for Home Affairs
- Hon William SpenceWilliam SpenceWilliam Guthrie Spence , Australian trade union leader and politician, played a leading role in the formation of both Australia's largest union, the Australian Workers Union, and the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:...
, MP: Postmaster-General - Senator Hon Albert GardinerAlbert GardinerAlbert Gardiner was an Australian Labor Party politician. He held the distinction of being the party's sole Senator between 1920 and 1922....
: Vice-President of the Executive Council - Hon Hugh MahonHugh MahonHugh Mahon was an Irish-born Australian politician and a member of the first Commonwealth Parliament for the Australian Labor Party...
, MP: Assistant Minister (to 14 December 1914), Minister for External Affairs (from 14 December 1914) - Hon Jens JensenJens JensenJens August Jensen was an Australian politician and Minister for the Navy.Jensen was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Ballarat, leaving school at 11. He became a rabbit-hawker and miner at Beaconsfield, Tasmania. In July 1885 he married Elizabeth Frances Broadhurst; she died in 1894...
, MP: Assistant Minister (to 12 July 1915), Minister for the Navy (from 12 July 1915) - Senator Hon Edward RussellEdward Russell (Australian politician)Edward John Russell was an Australian politician.Russell was born in Warrnambool, Victoria and educated at Newport State School and St Mary's Catholic School, Williamstown...
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