Hughes II government

Hughes II government

The Hughes II government was the twelfth government in Australia . She served from November 14, 1916 to February 17, 1917. All members of the government belonged to the National Labor Party .

The previous government was a Labor government under Prime Minister Billy Hughes . Australia participated in World War I with volunteer organizations on the British side. The high losses z. B. in Gallipoli and the Battle of the Somme near Pozières could not be balanced by the registration of new volunteers. Prime Minister Hughes advocated the introduction of compulsory military service, despite strong opposition in his own party and in the unions supporting the Labor Party. In a referendum on October 28, 1916, conscription was rejected by a narrow majority. The day before, 3 members of the government had resigned in protest. On November 14th, Hughes and his supporters left the Labor Party and formed a new party, the National Labor Party (NLP). Hughes remained Prime Minister and formed a minority government of the NLP, which was supported by the Liberal Party (LP). In February 1917, the NLP and LP merged to form the Nationalist Party of Australia , which was the third Hughes government.

List of ministers

Office	minister	Term of office	image
Prime Minister and Attorney General	Billy Hughes	November 14, 1916 - February 17, 1917
Defense Minister	George Pearce	November 14, 1916 - February 17, 1917
Naval Minister	Jens Jensen	November 14, 1916 - February 17, 1917
Postmaster General	William Webster	November 14, 1916 - February 17, 1917
Treasury minister	Alexander Poynton	November 14, 1916 - February 17, 1917
Minister for Trade and Customs	William Archibald	November 14, 1916 - February 17, 1917
Minister of the Interior and Territories	Fred Bamford	November 14, 1916 - February 17, 1917
Minister for Labor and Railways	Patrick Lynch	November 14, 1916 - February 17, 1917
Vice President of the Executive Council	William Spence	November 14, 1916 - February 17, 1917
Assistant Minister	Edward Russell	November 14, 1916 - February 17, 1917
	William Laird Smith	November 14, 1916 - February 17, 1917

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. 523 , accessed April 22, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ LF Fitzhardinge: Hughes, William Morris (Billy) (1862-1952) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Volume 9. Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1983, ISBN 0-522-84273-9 (English).
2. ^ Johannes H. Voigt : History of Australia. Alfred Kröner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-48801-9 , pp. 210-214.