Minister for Interior (Australia) explained

Border:	parliamentary
Minister:	not_prime
Post:	Minister for Interior
Style:	The Honourable
Appointer:	Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Australia
Inaugural:	Archdale Parkhill

The Australian Minister for Interior was a ministerial portfolio responsible for the local government and external territories administration. The portfolio was originally held by the Minister for Home Affairs from 1901 to 1932 and then Minister for the Interior in the first Lyons Ministry—subsuming his portfolios of Home Affairs and Transport.

The establishment of portfolios such as Transport, Immigration, Agriculture and Industry left the Minister for the Interior mainly responsible for administering the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, including, until 1967, the Australian Aboriginals residing there.^[1] On 19 December 1972 the interior portfolio was replaced in the Whitlam Ministry by the Minister for the Capital Territory and the Minister for the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory portfolio was abolished on 28 September 1978, following the granting of self-government to the Northern Territory. From July 1987, administration of the Australian Capital Territory was subsumed in the portfolio of Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories, anticipating ACT self-government on 11 May 1989.

List of ministers

Interior

The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for the Interior:^[2]

width=5	Order	width=150	Minister	width=120 colspan=2	Party	width=105	Prime Minister	width=250	Title	width=150	Term start	width=150	Term end	width=130	Term in office
1	Archdale Parkhill		United Australia	Lyons	Minister for the Interior	align=center		align=center		align=right
2	John Perkins	align=center					align=center		align=right
3	Eric Harrison	align=center					align=center		align=right
4	Thomas Paterson		Country			align=center		align=center		align=right
5	John McEwen	align=center					align=center
Page		align=center				align=center
6	Harry Foll		United Australia	Menzies		align=center		align=center
Fadden		align=center				align=center
7	Joe Collings		Labor	Curtin		align=center		align=center
Forde		align=center				align=center
8	Herbert Johnson	Chifley		align=center			align=center		align=right
9	Philip McBride		Liberal	Menzies		align=center		align=center		align=right
n/a	Eric Harrison	align=center					align=center		align=right
10	Wilfrid Kent Hughes	align=center					align=center		align=right
11	Allen Fairhall	align=center					align=center		align=right
12	Gordon Freeth	align=center					align=center		align=right
13	John Gorton	align=center					align=center		align=right
14	Doug Anthony		Country			align=center		align=center
Holt		align=center				align=center
	15	Peter Nixon		align=center			align=center
McEwen	align=center					align=center
Gorton	align=center					align=center
	16	Ralph Hunt		align=center			align=center
McMahon	align=center					align=center
17	Lance Barnard			Labor		Whitlam	align=center		align=center		align=right

Capital Territory

See also

• Department of Home Affairs (1901–16)
• Department of Home and Territories
• Department of Home Affairs (1928–32)
• Department of the Interior (1932–39)
• Department of the Interior (1939–72)
• Department of Administrative Services (1975–84)
• Department of Home Affairs (1977–80)
• Department of Home Affairs and Environment (1980-84)
• Department of Local Government and Administrative Services (1984-87)
• Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories (1987-91)
• Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories (1991-93)
• Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories (1993-97)
• Department of Transport and Regional Development (1996-98)
• Department of Transport and Regional Services (1998-07)
• Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government (2007-2010
• Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government (2010-2011)
• Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport (2011-2013)

Notes and References

1. Book: Attwood, B.. Markus, A. . 2004 . Thinking Black, William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League . Aboriginal Studies Press . Canberra . 0-85575-459-1 . 85 .
2. Web site: The 45th Parliament: Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia 2017 . . 2017 . 18 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170711131016/http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Parliamentary_Handbook . 11 July 2017 .