# List of speakers of the Australian House of Representatives

Below is a list of speakers of the Australian House of Representatives.
The parties shown are those to which the speakers belonged at the time they held office.

## List

| No. | Name | Party | State | Term of office | Term of office | Comments |
| 1 | Sir Frederick Holder | Independent | South Australia | 9 May 1901 | 23 July 1909 | Resigned from Free Trade Party upon election as speaker. Died in office. |
| 2 | Dr Carty Salmon | Liberal | Victoria | 28 July 1909 | 19 February 1910 | |
| 3 | Charles McDonald | Labor | Queensland | 1 July 1910 | 23 April 1913 | First time in role. |
| 4 | Sir Elliot Johnson | Liberal | New South Wales | 9 July 1913 | 30 July 1914 | First time in role. |
| (3) | Charles McDonald | Labor | Queensland | 8 October 1914 | 26 March 1917 | Second time in role. First Speaker to serve multiple terms. |
| (4) | Sir Elliot Johnson | Nationalist | New South Wales | 14 June 1917 | 6 November 1922 | Second time in role. Most recent Speaker to serve multiple terms. |
| 5 | William Watt | Nationalist | Victoria | 28 February 1923 | 3 October 1925 | First former government minister to become Speaker. |
| 6 | Sir Littleton Groom | Nationalist | Queensland | 13 January 1926 | 16 September 1929 | Defeated in his own seat. |
| 7 | Norman Makin | Labor | South Australia | 20 November 1929 | 27 November 1931 | |
| 8 | George Mackay | United Australia | Queensland | 17 February 1932 | 7 August 1934 | |
| 9 | Sir George John Bell | United Australia | Tasmania | 23 October 1934 | 27 August 1940 | |
| 10 | Walter Nairn | United Australia | Western Australia | 20 November 1940 | 21 June 1943 | Remained as speaker following the mid-term fall of the Fadden minority government in 1941, until defeated in his own seat at the 1943 election. |
| 11 | Sol Rosevear | Labor | New South Wales | 22 June 1943 | 31 October 1949 | |
| 12 | Archie Cameron | Liberal | South Australia | 22 February 1950 | 9 August 1956 | Died in office. |
| 13 | Sir John "Jack" McLeay | Liberal | South Australia | 29 August 1956 | 31 October 1966 | |
| 14 | Sir William Aston | Liberal | New South Wales | 21 February 1967 | 2 November 1972 | Defeated in his own seat. |
| 15 | Jim Cope | Labor | New South Wales | 27 February 1973 | 27 February 1975 | Resigned after the Whitlam government refused to support his naming of the Minister for Labour and Immigration, Clyde Cameron. |
| 16 | Gordon Scholes | Labor | Victoria | 27 February 1975 | 11 November 1975 | |
| 17 | Sir Billy Snedden | Liberal | Victoria | 17 February 1976 | 4 February 1983 | |
| 18 | Dr Harry Jenkins Sr. | Labor | Victoria | 21 April 1983 | 20 December 1985 | First Speaker whose son was a later Speaker. |
| 19 | Joan Child | Labor | Victoria | 11 February 1986 | 28 August 1989 | First female Speaker. |
| 20 | Leo McLeay | Labor | New South Wales | 29 August 1989 | 8 February 1993 | |
| 21 | Stephen Martin | Labor | New South Wales | 4 May 1993 | 29 January 1996 | |
| 22 | Bob Halverson | Liberal | Victoria | 30 April 1996 | 3 March 1998 | |
| 23 | Ian Sinclair | National | New South Wales | 4 March 1998 | 31 August 1998 | |
| 24 | Neil Andrew | Liberal | South Australia | 10 November 1998 | 31 August 2004 | |
| 25 | David Hawker | Liberal | Victoria | 16 November 2004 | 17 October 2007 | |
| 26 | Harry Jenkins Jr. | Labor | Victoria | 12 February 2008 | 24 November 2011 | First Speaker whose father was a Speaker. |
| 27 | Peter Slipper | Independent | Queensland | 24 November 2011 | 9 October 2012 | Resigned from the Liberal National Party the day after his election as Speaker. Resigned the speakership in the midst of court proceedings. First independent Speaker since Frederick Holder. |
| 28 | Anna Burke | Labor | Victoria | 9 October 2012 | 5 August 2013 |
| 29 | Bronwyn Bishop | Liberal | New South Wales | 12 November 2013 | 2 August 2015 | First non-Labor female Speaker (third overall). Stood down after public outcry about profligate use of taxpayer funded travel benefits. |
| 30 | Tony Smith | Liberal | Victoria | 10 August 2015 | 23 November 2021 | |
| 31 | Andrew Wallace | Liberal | Queensland | 23 November 2021 | 26 July 2022 | |
| 32 | Milton Dick | Labor | Queensland | 26 July 2022 | Incumbent | |