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List of Australian ministries

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ6562897 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of ministries of the Government of Australia since Federation in 1901.

Ministries

Notes

1..^Date of swearing in of Interim ministry. Full ministry to be sworn in 1st July 2022.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1901, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with List, Australian and ministries providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of Australian ministries” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.