Attorney-General for Australia
List of Attorneys-General
The following individuals have been appointed as Attorney-General for Australia: Notes A member of the Protectionist Party, Higgins served in the Labor ministry of Chris Watson, because Labor had no suitably qualified lawyer in Parliament.

Attorney-General for Australia

Section Title: List of Attorneys-General
Table Section Text: The following individuals have been appointed as Attorney-General for Australia: Notes A member of the Protectionist Party, Higgins served in the Labor ministry of Chris Watson, because Labor had no suitably qualified lawyer in Parliament.

Order	Minister	Party	Prime Minister	Prior legal experience	Alma mater	Term start	Term end	Term in office

1	Alfred Deakin KC	Protectionist	Barton	Barrister	University of Melbourne	1 January 1901	24 September 1903	2 years, 266 days

2	Senator James Drake	Deakin	Barrister	King's College School, London	24 September 1903	27 April 1904	216 days

3	H. B. Higgins QC	Protectionist	Watson	Barrister	University of Melbourne	27 April 1904	17 August 1904	112 days

4	Senator Sir Josiah Symon, KCMG, QC	Free Trade	Reid	Barrister	Free Church Training College	17 August 1904	5 July 1905	322 days

5	Isaac Isaacs QC	Protectionist	Deakin	Barrister	University of Melbourne	5 July 1905	12 October 1906	1 year, 99 days

6	Littleton Groom KC	Lawyer	University of Melbourne	12 October 1906	13 November 1908	2 years, 32 days

7	Billy Hughes, KC	Labor	Fisher	Barrister	n/a	13 November 1908	2 June 1909	201 days

8	Paddy Glynn, KCMG, KC	Commonwealth Liberal	Deakin	Barrister	Trinity College, Dublin	2 June 1909	29 April 1910	331 days

n/a	Billy Hughes KC	Labor	Fisher	Barrister	n/a	29 April 1910	24 June 1913	3 years, 56 days

9	William Irvine KC	Commonwealth Liberal	Cook	Barrister	Trinity College, Dublin; University of Melbourne	24 June 1913	17 September 1914	1 year, 85 days

n/a	Billy Hughes KC	Labor	Fisher	Barrister	n/a	17 September 1914	27 October 1915	7 years, 95 days

Hughes	27 October 1915	14 November 1916

National Labor	14 November 1916	13 June 1917

Nationalist	13 June 1917	21 December 1921

n/a	Sir Littleton Groom, KCMG, KC	Lawyer	University of Melbourne	21 December 1921	9 February 1923	3 years, 362 days

Bruce	9 February 1923	18 December 1925

10	John Latham KC	Barrister	University of Melbourne	18 December 1925	22 October 1929	3 years, 308 days

11	Frank Brennan	Labor	Scullin	Barrister	University of Melbourne	22 October 1929	6 January 1932	2 years, 76 days

n/a	Sir John Latham, GCMG, KC	United Australia	Lyons	Barrister	University of Melbourne	6 January 1932	12 October 1934	2 years, 279 days

12	Robert Menzies KC	Barrister	University of Melbourne	12 October 1934	20 March 1939	4 years, 159 days

n/a	Billy Hughes, CH, KC	Barrister	n/a	20 March 1939	7 April 1939	2 years, 201 days

Page	7 April 1939	26 April 1939

Menzies	26 April 1939	29 August 1941

Fadden	29 August 1941	7 October 1941

13	Dr. H. V. Evatt KC	Labor	Curtin	Barrister, Judge	University of Sydney	7 October 1941	6 July 1945	8 years, 73 days

Forde	6 July 1945	13 July 1945

Chifley	13 July 1945	19 December 1949

14	Senator John Spicer KC	Liberal	Menzies	Barrister	University of Melbourne	19 December 1949	14 August 1956	6 years, 239 days

15	Senator Neil O'Sullivan	Solicitor	15 August 1956	12 October 1958	2 years, 58 days

16	Sir Garfield Barwick QC	Barrister	University of Sydney	12 October 1958	4 March 1964	5 years, 144 days

17	Billy Snedden QC	Barrister	University of Western Australia	4 March 1964	26 January 1966	2 years, 285 days

Holt	26 January 1966	14 December 1966

18	Nigel Bowen QC	Barrister	University of Sydney	14 December 1966	19 December 1967	2 years, 333 days

McEwen	19 December 1967	10 January 1968

Gorton	10 January 1968	12 November 1969

19	Tom Hughes QC	Barrister	University of Sydney	12 November 1969	10 March 1971	1 year, 130 days

McMahon	10 March 1971	22 March 1971

n/a	Nigel Bowen	Barrister	University of Sydney	22 March 1971	2 August 1971	133 days

20	Senator Ivor Greenwood QC	Barrister	University of Melbourne	2 August 1971	5 December 1972	1 year, 125 days

21	Gough Whitlam QC	Labor	Whitlam	Barrister	University of Sydney	5 December 1972	19 December 1972	14 days

22	Senator Lionel Murphy QC	Barrister	University of Sydney	19 December 1972	10 February 1975	2 years, 53 days

23	Kep Enderby QC	Barrister	University of Sydney University of London	10 February 1975	11 November 1975	274 days

n/a	Senator Ivor Greenwood QC	Liberal	Fraser	Barrister	University of Melbourne	11 November 1975	22 December 1975	41 days

24	Bob Ellicott QC	Barrister	University of Sydney	22 December 1975	6 September 1977	1 year, 258 days

25	Senator Peter Durack QC	Barrister	University of Western Australia Lincoln College, Oxford	6 September 1977	11 March 1983	5 years, 186 days

26	Senator Gareth Evans QC	Labor	Hawke	Barrister	University of Melbourne Magdalen College, Oxford	11 March 1983	13 December 1984	1 year, 277 days

27	Lionel Bowen	Solicitor	University of Sydney	13 December 1984	4 April 1990	5 years, 112 days

28	Michael Duffy, ONZ	Solicitor	University of Melbourne	4 April 1990	27 December 1991	2 years, 354 days

Keating	27 December 1991	24 March 1993

29	Duncan Kerr	Labor	Keating	Barrister	University of Tasmania	1 April 1993	27 April 1993	26 days

30	Michael Lavarch	Solicitor	Queensland University of Technology	27 April 1993	11 March 1996	2 years, 319 days

31	Daryl Williams, AM, QC	Liberal	Howard	Barrister	University of Western Australia Wadham College, Oxford	11 March 1996	7 October 2003	7 years, 210 days

32	Philip Ruddock	Solicitor	University of Sydney	7 October 2003	3 December 2007	4 years, 57 days

33	Robert McClelland	Labor	Rudd	Solicitor	University of New South Wales University of Sydney	3 December 2007	24 June 2010	4 years, 11 days

Gillard	24 June 2010	14 December 2011

34	Nicola Roxon	Solicitor	University of Melbourne	14 December 2011	2 February 2013	1 year, 50 days

35	Mark Dreyfus QC	Barrister	University of Melbourne	2 February 2013	26 June 2013	228 days

Rudd	26 June 2013	18 September 2013

36	Senator George Brandis QC	Liberal National	Abbott	Barrister	University of Queensland; Magdalen College, Oxford	18 September 2013	15 September 2015	4 years, 93 days

Turnbull	15 September 2015	20 December 2017

37	Christian Porter	Liberal	Lawyer	University of Western Australia, London School of Economics	20 December 2017	24 August 2018	1 year, 72 days

Morrison	24 August 2018	Incumbent

Sentence(s)

Since 20 December 2017, the Attorney-General has been Christian Porter, a Liberal member.

final_sentence: Since 20 December 2017, the Attorney-General has been Christian Porter, a Liberal member.