Whitlam III government

The Whitlam III government ruled Australia from June 12, 1974 to November 11, 1975. It was a Labor Party government .

In the parliamentary elections parliamentary election on May 18, 1974 Labor lost a seat in the House of Representatives, but retained an absolute majority with 66 of 127 seats. Labor won 3 seats in the Senate, with 29 out of 60 not having a majority. The next government was also placed by Labor under Prime Minister Whitlam. 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 - the process known as the 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis.

List of ministers

Office	minister	Term of office	image
prime minister	Gough Whitlam	June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Deputy Prime Minister	Jim Cairns	June 12, 1974 - July 2, 1975
	Frank Crean	July 14, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister for Overseas Trade	Jim Cairns	June 12, 1974 - December 11, 1974
	Frank Crean	December 11, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Minister for Raw Materials and Energy	Rex Connor	June 12, 1974 - October 14, 1975
	Ken Wriedt	October 14, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister of Social Affairs	Bill Hayden	June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
	John Wheeldon	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Attorney General	Lionel Murphy	June 12, 1974 - February 10, 1975
	Kep Enderby	February 10, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister for Customs and Excise Taxes	Lionel Murphy	June 12, 1974 - February 10, 1975
	Kep Enderby	February 10, 1975 - March 27, 1975
Minister for Police and Customs		March 27, 1975 - June 6, 1975
	Jim Cavanagh	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Foreign minister	Don Willesee	June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Treasury minister	Frank Crean	June 12, 1974 - December 11, 1974
	Jim Cairns	December 11, 1974 - June 6, 1975
	Bill Hayden	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister for Services and Real Estate	Fred Daly	June 12, 1974 - October 7, 1975
Minister for Administrative Services		October 7, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister for the Media	Doug McClelland	June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
	Moss Cass	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Defense Minister	Lance Barnard	June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
	Bill Morrison	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister of Agriculture	Ken Wriedt	June 12, 1974 - October 21, 1975
	Rex Patterson	October 21, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister for the Development of the North		June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Minister for the Northern Territory		June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
Minister for Northern Australia		June 6, 1975 - October 21, 1975
	Paul Keating	October 21, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister for Labor and Immigration	Clyde Cameron	June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
	Doug McClelland	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister of Education	Kim Beazley	June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Special Minister of State	Lionel Bowen	June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
	Doug McClelland	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister for Repatriation and Compensation	John Wheeldon	June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Minister for Rural and Regional Development	Tom Uren	June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Postmaster General	Reg Bishop	June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Minister for Housing and Housing	Les Johnson	June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
	Joe Riordan	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister of transport	Charles Jones	June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Minister of Health	Doug Everingham	June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Minister for the Manufacturing Industry	Kep Enderby	June 12, 1974 - February 10, 1975
	Doug McClelland	February 10, 1975 - June 6, 1975
	Lionel Bowen	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister for the Capital Territory	Gordon Bryant	June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Minister for the Environment and Nature Conservation	Moss Cass	June 12, 1974 - April 21, 1975
Environment Minister		April 21, 1975 - June 6, 1975
	Jim Cairns	June 6, 1975 - July 2, 1975
	Gough Whitlam	July 2, 1975 - July 14, 1974
	Joe Berinson	July 14, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Minister for Aborigines	Jim Cavanagh	June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
	Les Johnson	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Science Minister	Bill Morrison	June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
Minister for Science and Consumers	Clyde Cameron	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Minister for Tourism and Recreation	Frank Stewart	June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Vice President of the Executive Council
Assistant Minister in Support of the Prime Minister	Lionel Bowen	June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
	Doug McClelland	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Social Affairs	Frank Stewart	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Papua New Guinea	Bill Morrison	June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
Assistant Minister in the Department of State for the Pacific Islands		June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Assistant Minister in the Treasury	Frank Stewart	June 12, 1974 - November 11, 1975
Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Defense	Bill Morrison	June 12, 1974 - June 6, 1975
	Reg Bishop	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Repatriation and Compensation	Frank Stewart	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 1975
Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development	Joe Riordan	June 6, 1975 - November 11, 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, pp. 554–556 , accessed May 25, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephen Barber: Federal election results 1901–2016 — Reissue 2. (PDF; 2.9 MB) Parliament of Australia, pp. 10, 45, 140 , accessed on May 25, 2019 .  
2. ^ Prime Ministers of Australia. Gough Whitlam. National Museum of Australia, accessed May 25, 2019 .  
3. ^ Peter Edwards: Kerr, Sir John Robert (1914-1991) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).
4. ^ Johannes H. Voigt : History of Australia. Alfred Kröner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-48801-9 , p. 277 f.