Minister for Human Services (Australia)

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The position of Minister for Human Services within Australian politics is currently held by Joe Ludwig. The Minister is responsible for a number of welfare agencies and administers his portfolio through the Department of Human Services and its component bodies:

[edit] Australian social services ministers

There was a Minister for Social Services or Social Security continuously from 1939 to 1998, when service delivery was partially privatised and residual fuctions were transferred to the Minister for Finance and Administration. In 2004, the position of Minister for Human Services was recreated to handle the residual fuctions.

Minister Party affiliation Period Ministerial Title
Frederick Harold Stewart United Australia Party 1939–1941 Minister for Social Services
Ted Holloway Australian Labor Party 1941–1943
James Fraser Australian Labor Party 1943–1946
Nicholas McKenna Australian Labor Party 1946–1949
William Spooner Liberal Party 1949–1951
Athol Townley Liberal Party 1951–1954
William McMahon Liberal Party 1954–1956
Hugh Roberton Country Party 1956–1965
Reginald Swartz Liberal Party 1965
Ian Sinclair Country Party 1965–1968
Bill Wentworth Liberal Party 1968–1972
Bill Hayden Australian Labor Party 1972–1975 Minister for Social Security
John Wheeldon Australian Labor Party 1975
Don Chipp Liberal Party 1975
Margaret Guilfoyle Liberal Party 1975–1980
Fred Chaney Liberal Party 1980–1983
Don Grimes Australian Labor Party 1983–1984
Brian Howe Australian Labor Party 1984–1990
Graham Richardson Australian Labor Party 1990–1991
Neal Blewett Australian Labor Party 1991–1993
Peter Baldwin Australian Labor Party 1993–1996
Jocelyn Newman Liberal Party 1996–1998
Joe Hockey Liberal Party 2004–2007 Minister for Human Services
Ian Campbell Liberal Party 2007
Chris Ellison Liberal Party 2007
Joe Ludwig Australian Labor Party 2007–

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