Government of Fraser I

The Fraser I government ruled Australia from November 11, 1975 to December 22, 1975. It was a transitional government formed by the Liberal Party (LP) and the National Country Party (NCP).

The Whitlam III Labor government had an absolute majority in the House of Representatives , but not in the Senate . When the opposition blocked the government's budget laws in the Senate, Prime Minister Whitlam asked Governor General John Kerr to dissolve both Houses of Parliament. Kerr declared Whitlam deposed and appointed Malcolm Fraser , leader of the Liberal Party , as the new prime minister of a transitional government until the early general election on December 13, 1975 - the process known as the 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis. The Labor Party suffered a clear defeat in the general election . The Liberal Party received 68 of the 127 seats, the NCP 22 and Labor 36. Labor and the LP each had 27 of the 60 senators in the Senate, the NCP won 7 seats. The coalition of LP and NCP under Fraser continued.

List of ministers

Office	minister	Political party	Term of office	image
prime minister	Malcolm Fraser	LP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Deputy Prime Minister	Doug Anthony	NCP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Minister for Overseas Trade
Minister for Raw Materials and Energy
Treasury minister	Phillip Lynch	LP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Minister of Agriculture	Ian Sinclair	NCP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Minister for Northern Australia
Special Minister of State	Reg Withers	LP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Minister for the Capital Territory
Minister for the Media
Minister for Tourism and Recreation
Vice President of the Executive Council
Attorney General	Ivor Greenwood	LP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Minister for Police and Customs
Minister for the Manufacturing Industry	Bob Cotton		November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Minister for Science and Consumers
Minister of transport	Peter Nixon	NCP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Postmaster General
Foreign minister	Andrew Peacock	LP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Environment Minister
Minister of Social Affairs	Don Chipp	LP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Minister of Health
Minister for Repatriation and Compensation
Defense Minister	James Killen	LP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Minister for Aborigines	Tom Drake-Brockman	NCP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Minister for Administrative Services
Minister for Housing and Housing	John Carrick	LP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975	[[File: | frameless | centered | 100px]]
Minister for Rural and Regional Development
Minister for Labor and Immigration	Tony Street	LP	November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975
Minister of Education	Margaret Guilfoyle		November 11, 1975 - December 22, 1975

Web links

• Parliamentary Handbook for the 45th Parliament. (PDF; 13.4 MB) Part 6: Historical information on the Australian Parliament - Ministries and Cabinets. Parliament of Australia, p. 556 f. , accessed on May 25, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Prime Ministers of Australia. Gough Whitlam. National Museum of Australia, accessed May 25, 2019 .  
2. ^ Peter Edwards: Kerr, Sir John Robert (1914-1991) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).
3. ^ Johannes H. Voigt : History of Australia. Alfred Kröner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-48801-9 , p. 277 f.
4. ↑ Stephen Barber: Federal election results 1901–2016 — Reissue 2. (PDF; 2.9 MB) Parliament of Australia, pp. 10 f., 46, 141 , accessed on May 25, 2019 (English).  
5. ^ Prime Ministers of Australia. Malcolm Fraser. National Museum of Australia, accessed May 25, 2019 .