Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations
List of Ministers for Jobs and Industrial Relations

Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations

Section Title: List of Ministers for Jobs and Industrial Relations
Table Section Text: None

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

1	Harold Holt	United Australia	Menzies	Minister for Labour and National Service	28 October 1940	29 August 1941	344 days

Fadden	29 August 1941	7 October 1941

2	Eddie Ward	Labor	Curtin	7 October 1941	21 September 1943	1 year, 349 days

3	Jack Holloway	21 September 1943	6 July 1945	6 years, 89 days

Forde	6 July 1945	13 July 1945

Chifley	13 July 1945	19 December 1949

n/a	Harold Holt	Liberal	Menzies	19 December 1949	10 December 1958	8 years, 356 days

4	William McMahon	10 December 1958	26 January 1966	7 years, 47 days

5	Les Bury	Holt	26 January 1966	19 December 1967	3 years, 290 days

McEwen	19 December 1967	10 January 1968

Gorton	10 January 1968	12 November 1969

6	Billy Snedden	12 November 1969	10 March 1971	1 year, 130 days

McMahon	10 March 1971	22 March 1971

7	Phillip Lynch	22 March 1971	5 December 1972	1 year, 258 days

8	Lance Barnard	Labor	Whitlam	5 December 1972	19 December 1972	14 days

9	Clyde Cameron	Minister for Labour	19 December 1972	12 June 1974	2 years, 169 days

Minister for Labour and Immigration	12 June 1974	6 June 1975

10	Jim McClelland	6 June 1975	11 November 1975	158 days

11	Tony Street	Liberal	Fraser	11 November 1975	22 December 1975	3 years, 24 days

Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations	22 December 1975	5 December 1978

12	Ian Viner	Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs	5 December 1978	6 April 1981	2 years, 122 days

13	Neil Brown	6 April 1981	7 May 1982	1 year, 31 days

14	Ian Macphee	Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations	7 May 1982	11 March 1983	308 days

15	Ralph Willis	Labor	Hawke	11 March 1983	24 July 1987	4 years, 135 days

16	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

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

18	Simon Crean	23 December 1993	11 March 1996	2 years, 79 days

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

20	David Kemp	9 October 1997	21 October 1998	1 year, 12 days

21	Peter Reith	Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business	21 October 1998	30 January 2001	2 years, 101 days

22	Tony Abbott	30 January 2001	26 November 2001	2 years, 250 days

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations	26 November 2001	7 October 2003

23	Kevin Andrews	7 October 2003	30 January 2007	3 years, 115 days

24	Joe Hockey	30 January 2007	3 December 2007	307 days

25	Julia Gillard	Labor	Rudd	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

26	Chris Evans	Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations	14 September 2010	14 December 2011	1 year, 91 days

27	Bill Shorten	Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations	14 December 2011	1 July 2013	1 year, 199 days

28	Brendan O'Connor	Rudd	Minister for Employment and Minister for Skills and Training	1 July 2013	18 September 2013	79 days

29	Eric Abetz	Liberal	Abbott	Minister for Employment	18 September 2013	15 September 2015	2 years, 3 days

Turnbull	15 September 2015	21 September 2015

29	Michaelia Cash	21 September 2015	20 December 2017	3 years, 162 days

Minister for Jobs and Innovation	20 December 2017	28 August 2018

30	Kelly O'Dwyer	Liberal	Morrison	Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations	28 August 2018	Incumbent	186 days

Sentence(s)

Despite the First Rudd Ministry ending on 24 June 2010, Gillard was Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations for four days in her first ministry, between 24 June and 28 June 2010.

final_sentence: Despite the First Rudd Ministry ending on 24 June 2010, Gillard was Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations for four days in her first ministry, between 24 June and 28 June 2010.