Minister for Education (Australia)
List of ministers for education and training

Minister for Education (Australia)

Section Title: List of ministers for education and training
Table Section Text: None

Order	Minister	Party	Prime Minister	Title	Term start	Term end	Term in office

1	John Gorton	Liberal	Menzies	Minister in charge of Commonwealth Activities in Education and Research under the Prime Minister	18 December 1963	26 January 1966	4 years, 23 days

Holt	26 January 1966	14 December 1966

Minister for Education and Science	14 December 1966	19 December 1967

McEwen	19 December 1967	10 January 1968

Gorton	10 January 1968	28 February 1968

2	Malcolm Fraser	28 February 1968	12 November 1969	1 year, 257 days

3	Nigel Bowen	12 November 1969	10 March 1971	3 years, 22 days

McMahon	10 March 1971	22 March 1971

4	David Fairbairn	22 March 1971	20 August 1971	151 days

n/a	Malcolm Fraser	20 August 1971	5 December 1972	1 year, 107 days

5	Gough Whitlam	Labor	Whitlam	5 December 1972	19 December 1972	14 days

6	Kim Beazley, Snr.	Minister for Education	19 December 1972	11 November 1975	2 years, 327 days

7	Margaret Guilfoyle	Liberal	Fraser	11 November 1975	22 December 1975	41 days

8	John Carrick	22 December 1975	8 December 1979	3 years, 351 days

9	Wal Fife	8 December 1979	7 May 1982	2 years, 150 days

10	Peter Baume	7 May 1982	11 March 1983	308 days

11	Susan Ryan	Labor	Hawke	Minister for Education and Youth Affairs	11 March 1983	13 December 1984	4 years, 135 days

Minister for Education	13 December 1984	24 July 1987

12	John Dawkins	Minister for Employment, Education and Training	24 July 1987	20 December 1991	4 years, 156 days

Keating	20 December 1991	27 December 1991

13	Kim Beazley	27 December 1991	23 December 1993	1 year, 361 days

14	Simon Crean	23 December 1993	11 March 1996	4 years, 75 days

15	Amanda Vanstone	Liberal	Howard	Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs	11 March 1996	9 October 1997	1 year, 212 days

16	David Kemp	Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs	9 October 1997	26 November 2001	4 years, 48 days

17	Brendan Nelson	Minister for Education, Science and Training	26 November 2001	27 January 2006	4 years, 62 days

18	Julie Bishop	27 January 2006	3 December 2007	1 year, 310 days

19	Julia Gillard	Labor	Rudd	Minister for Education	3 December 2007	24 June 2010	2 years, 207 days

Gillard	24 June 2010	28 June 2010

n/a	Simon Crean	28 June 2010	14 September 2010	78 days

20	Peter Garrett	Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth	14 September 2010	1 July 2013	2 years, 290 days

21	Bill Shorten	Rudd	Minister for Education	1 July 2013	18 September 2013	79 days

22	Christopher Pyne	Liberal	Abbott	18 September 2013	23 December 2014	2 years, 3 days

Minister for Education and Training	23 December 2014	15 September 2015

Turnbull	15 September 2015	21 September 2015

23	Simon Birmingham	21 September 2015	24 August 2018	2 years, 339 days

Morrison	24 August 2018	28 August 2018

24	Dan Tehan	Minister for Education	28 August 2018	incumbent	215 days

Sentence(s)

The first Rudd Ministry ended on the 24th of June 2010, and Gillard was Minister for Education in her first ministry, between the 24th of June and the 28th of June 2010.

final_sentence: The first Rudd Ministry ended on the 24th of June 2010, and Gillard was Minister for Education in her first ministry, between the 24th of June and the 28th of June 2010.