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Minister for Housing (Australia)

Australian cabinet position

Field	Value
post	Minister for Housing
insignia	Coat_of_Arms_of_Australia.svg
insigniacaption	Commonwealth Coat of Arms
flag	Flag of Australia (converted).svg
flagcaption	Flag of Australia
flagborder	yes
incumbent	Clare O'Neil
image	Clare O'Neil (2023).jpg
incumbentsince
style	The Honourable
appointer	Governor-General
appointer_qualified	on the advice of the prime minister
inaugural	Bert Lazzarini
(as Minister for Works and Housing)
formation
department	Department of the Treasury
website

(as Minister for Works and Housing)

The Minister for Housing is an Australian Government cabinet position which is currently held by Clare O'Neil since July 2024 in the Albanese government.

In the Government of Australia, the minister administers this portfolio through the Department of the Treasury.

The first Minister for Housing was Les Bury, appointed in 1963, although there were Ministers in charge of War Service Homes from 1932 to 1938 and 1941 to 1945. In 1945, Bert Lazzarini was appointed Minister for Works and Housing and this title continued until 1952, when Wilfrid Kent Hughes became Minister for Works. No minister included "works" or "construction" in his portfolio after Stewart West lost this title in 1987, partly reflecting the progressive outsourcing of the Commonwealth's construction activities and even ownership of assets. The Howard government had no Minister of Housing, partly reflecting the decline of the significance of the commonwealth-state housing agreements as a means of providing new housing since the post-war years.

Between 2010 and 2013 and since 2020, the minister appointed to the position is also appointed the Minister for Homelessness.

List of ministers for housing

The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for Housing, or any of its precedent titles:

Order	Minister	Party	Ministry	Title	Term start	Term end
1	Bert Lazzarini	Labor}}		Labor	1st Chifley	Minister for Works and Housing
2	Nelson Lemmon	2nd Chifley
3	Richard Casey	Liberal}}		Liberal	4th Menzies
4	Wilfrid Kent Hughes	5th Menzies
5	Les Bury	Liberal}}		Liberal	10th Menzies	Minister for Housing
6	Annabelle Rankin	1st Holt
2nd Holt
McEwen
1st Gorton
2nd Gorton
McMahon
7	Kevin Cairns	McMahon
8	Gough Whitlam	Labor}}		Labor	1st Whitlam
9	Les Johnson	2nd Whitlam
2nd Whitlam
3rd Whitlam	Minister for Housing and Construction
10	Joe Riordan	3rd Whitlam
11	John Carrick	Liberal}}		Liberal	1st Fraser
12	Ivor Greenwood	2nd Fraser	Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development
13	Kevin Newman	2nd Fraser
14	Ray Groom	3rd Fraser
Minister for Housing and Construction
15	Tom McVeigh			National Country	4th Fraser
16	Chris Hurford	Labor}}		Labor	1st Hawke	Minister for Housing and Construction
17	Stewart West	2nd Hawke
18	Peter Morris	Labor}}		Labor	3rd Hawke	Minister for Housing and Aged Care
19	Peter Staples	3rd Hawke
4th Hawke
20	Brian Howe	4th Hawke	Minister for Community Services and Health			****
4th Hawke
1st Keating	Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services
2nd Keating	Minister for Housing, Local Government and Community Services
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Human Services
Minister for Housing and Regional Development
21	Tanya Plibersek	Labor}}		Labor	1st Rudd
1st Gillard	Minister for Housing
22	Mark Arbib	2nd Gillard	Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness
23	Robert McClelland	Minister for Housing
24	Brendan O'Connor
25	Mark Butler	Minister for Housing and Homelessness
26	Julie Collins	2nd Rudd
27	Michael Sukkar			Liberal	2nd Morrison	Minister for Housing
(26)	Julie Collins	Labor}}		Labor	Albanese
28	Clare O'Neil		Incumbent

Notes : Whitlam was one of a two-man ministry consisting of himself and Lance Barnard for two weeks until the full ministry was announced.

List of assistant ministers

The following individuals have been appointed as Assistant Minister for Community Housing, Homelessness and Community Services, or any of its precedent titles:

Order	Minister	Party	Ministry	Title	Term start	Term end
1	Herbert Johnson			Labor	1st Chifley	Minister assisting the Minister for Works and Housing
2	Gary Johns	Labor}}		Labor	1st Keating	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services
3	Andrew Theophanous	2nd Keating	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Human Services
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Human Services
4	Mary Crawford	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Housing and Regional Development			****
5	Melissa Parke	Labor}}		Labor	2nd Gillard	Parliamentary Secretary for Homelessness and Social Housing
6	Doug Cameron	2nd Rudd	Parliamentary Secretary for Housing and Homelessness
7	Sarah Henderson			Liberal	1st Morrison	Assistant Minister for Social Services, Housing and Disability Services
8	Luke Howarth			Liberal National	2nd Morrison	Assistant Minister for Community Housing, Homelessness and Community Services

References

(2017). "The 45th Parliament: Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia 2017". [[Parliament of Australia]].

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