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Minister for Trade and Tourism

Australian cabinet position

Field	Value
post	Minister for Trade and Tourism
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	Don Farrell
image	Senator Don Farrell (2022) (cropped).jpg
incumbentsince
style	The Honourable
appointer	Governor-General
appointer_qualified	on the advice of the prime minister
inaugural	Charles Kingston (as Minister for Trade and Customs)
formation
department	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
website

The Minister for Trade and Tourism is a portfolio in the Government of Australia, falling within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The position is currently held by Senator Don Farrell, sworn in as part of the Albanese ministry on 1 June 2022, following the Australian federal election in 2022. The minister is assisted by the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, held by Matt Thistlethwaite, and the Assistant Minister for Tourism, held by Nita Green.

Portfolio

In the Government of Australia, the minister and assistant minister(s) administer the portfolio through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) jointly with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Other trade-related bodies for which the minister and assistant minister are responsible are:

Austrade
Export Finance Australia
Tourism Australia

DFAT was created in 1987 through the merger of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Trade. In sequence, the trade portfolio has been administered by the following departments:

Department of Trade and Customs (1901–1956)
Department of Trade (1956–1963)
Department of Trade and Industry (1963–1972)
Department of Overseas Trade (1972–1977)
Department of Trade and Resources (1977–1983)
Department of Trade (1983–1987)
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1987–present)

List of ministers for trade

The following individuals have been appointed as minister for trade, tourism and investment, or any of its precedent titles:

Order	Minister	Party	Prime Minister	Title	Term start	Term end	Term in office
1	Charles Kingston			Protectionist	Barton	Minister for Trade and Customs
2	William Lyne	Protectionist}}		Protectionist	Barton	Minister for Trade and Customs
Deakin
3	Andrew Fisher			Labor	Watson			days
4	Allan McLean	Protectionist}}		Protectionist	Reid			days
n/a	William Lyne	Deakin
5	Austin Chapman
6	Frank Tudor			Labor	Fisher			days
7	Robert Best			Liberal	Deakin			days
n/a	Frank Tudor			Labor	Fisher
8	Littleton Groom			Liberal	Cook
n/a	Frank Tudor	Labor}}		Labor	Fisher
Hughes
9	Billy Hughes			Labor	Hughes	Minister for Trade and Customs
10	William Archibald			National Labor			days
11	Jens Jensen	Nationalist}}		Nationalist
12	William Watt			days
13	Walter Massy-Greene
14	Arthur Rodgers
n/a	Austin Chapman	Nationalist}}		Nationalist	Bruce	Minister for Trade and Customs
n/a	Littleton Groom			days
15	Herbert Pratten
16	Stanley Bruce			days
17	Henry Gullett			days
18	James Fenton	Labor}}		Labor	Scullin
19	Frank Forde			days
n/a	Henry Gullett	UAP}}		United Australia	Lyons
20	Thomas White
21	John Perkins			days
Page
22	John Lawson	Menzies			days
23	Robert Menzies			days
24	George McLeay			days
25	Eric Harrison			days
Fadden
26	Richard Keane	Labor}}		Labor	Curtin
Forde
Chifley
27	John Dedman			days
28	James Fraser			days
29	Ben Courtice
30	Neil O'Sullivan			Liberal	Menzies
31	John McEwen	National}}		Country	Minister for Trade			****
Minister for Trade and Industry
Holt
McEwen
Gorton
32	Doug Anthony
McMahon
33	Gough Whitlam	Labor}}		Labor	Whitlam			days
34	Jim Cairns	Minister for Overseas Trade
35	Frank Crean			days
n/a	Doug Anthony	National}}		National Country	Fraser
Minister for Trade and Resources		16 October 1982
		National	16 October 1982	11 March 1983
36	Lionel Bowen	Labor}}		Labor	Hawke	Minister for Trade
37	John Dawkins
38	Michael Duffy	Minister for Trade Negotiations
39	Neal Blewett
Minister for Trade and Overseas Development
Keating
40	John Kerin
41	Peter Cook	Minister for Trade			days
42	Bob McMullan
43	Tim Fischer	National}}		National	Howard
44	Mark Vaile
45	Warren Truss
46	Simon Crean	Labor}}		Labor	Rudd
Gillard
47	Stephen Smith			days
48	Craig Emerson
Minister for Trade and Competitiveness
49	Richard Marles	Rudd	Minister for Trade			days
50	Andrew Robb	Liberal}}		Liberal	Abbott	Minister for Trade and Investment		15 September 2015
Turnbull
51	Steven Ciobo
Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment
52	Simon Birmingham	Morrison
53	Dan Tehan
54	Don Farrell			Labor	Albanese	Minister for Trade and Tourism	1 June 2022	Incumbent

Notes : Whitlam was part of a two-man ministry that comprised just Gough Whitlam and Lance Barnard for fourteen days, until the full ministry was announced.

List of ministers for tourism

Since 1966, Australia had ministers responsible for tourism under various titles. The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for Tourism, or any of its precedent titles:

Order	Minister	Party	Ministerial title	Term start	Term end	Term in office
1	Don Chipp	Liberal}}	Liberal	Holt	Minister in charge of Tourist Activities
McEwen
Gorton
2	Reg Wright
McMahon
3	Peter Howson
4	Frank Stewart		Labor	Whitlam	Minister for Tourism and Recreation
5	Reg Withers		Liberal	Fraser			days
6	John Brown	Labor}}	Labor	Hawke	Minister for Sport, Recreation and Tourism
Minister for Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories
7	Graham Richardson	Labor}}	Labor	Hawke	Minister for Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories
8	Ros Kelly
Keating
9	Alan Griffiths	Minister for Tourism
10	Michael Lee
11	John Moore	Liberal}}	Liberal	Howard	Minister for Industry, Science and Tourism
12	Andrew Thomson	Minister for Sport and Tourism
13	Jackie Kelly
14	Joe Hockey	Minister for Small Business and Tourism
15	Fran Bailey
16	Martin Ferguson	Labor}}	Labor	Rudd	Minister for Tourism
Gillard
17	Gary Gray		days
Rudd
18	Richard Colbeck	Liberal}}	Liberal	Turnbull	Minister for Tourism and International Education
19	Steven Ciobo	Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment
20	Simon Birmingham	Morrison
21	Dan Tehan
22	Don Farrell		Labor	Albanese	Minister for Trade and Tourism	1 June 2022	Incumbent

List of ministers assisting the minister for trade and investment

List of assistant ministers for trade and investment The following individuals have been appointed as minister assisting the minister for trade and investment, or its preceding titles:

Order	Minister	Party	Prime Minister	Title	Term start	Term end
1	Ian Sinclair	National}}		Country	Holt	Minister assisting the Minister for Trade and Industry
McEwen
Gorton
2	John Howard	Liberal}}		Liberal	Fraser	Minister for Special Trade Negotiations
3	Victor Garland	Minister for Special Trade Representations
4	Douglas Scott	National}}		National Country	Minister for Special Trade Representations
Minister assisting the Minister for Trade and Resources			days
5	Ian Sinclair	Minister for Special Trade Representations			days
6	Tom McVeigh	Minister Assisting the Minister for Trade and Resources
7	Richard Colbeck			Liberal	Turnbull	Minister Assisting the Minister for Trade and Investment
8	Andrew Gee	National}}		Morrison	National	Minister Assisting the Minister for Trade and Investment
9	David Gillespie

List of parliamentary secretaries and assistant ministers for trade

List of assistant ministers for trade and investment The following individuals have been appointed as parliamentary secretary and assistant ministers for trade:

Order	Minister	Party	Title	Term start	Term end	Term in office
1	Stephen Martin		Labor	Keating	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
2	David Brownhill	National}}	National	Howard	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade
3	Larry Anthony
4	De-Anne Kelly		National	Howard	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade
5	Bruce Billson		Liberal	Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Trade
6	Sandy Macdonald	National}}	National	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade
(4)	De-Anne Kelly
7	John Murphy	Labor}}	Labor	Rudd	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade
8	Anthony Byrne	Parliamentary Secretary for Trade
Gillard
9	Justine Elliot
10	Kelvin Thomson
11	Steven Ciobo		Liberal	Abbott	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade and Investment
12	Keith Pitt	National}}	National	Turnbull	Assistant Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment
13	Luke Hartsuyker
14	Mark Coulton
Morrison	Assistant Minister for Trade and Investment
15	Tim Ayres		Labor	Albanese	Assistant Minister for Trade
16	Matt Thistlethwaite		Labor	Albanese	Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade	13 May 2025	Incumbent

List of assistant ministers for regional tourism

The following individuals have been appointed as assistant minister for regional tourism:

Order	Minister	Party	Prime Minister	Title	Term start	Term end	Term in office
1	Jonathon Duniam			Liberal	Morrison	Assistant Minister for Regional Tourism

List of assistant ministers for tourism

Order	Minister	Party	Prime Minister	Title	Term start	Term end	Term in office	Reference
1	Nita Green			Labor	Albanese	Assistant Minister for Tourism		Incumbent

References

"Ministers and Assistant Ministers". Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
(23 May 2022). "Press Conference - Parliament House, Canberra {{!}} Prime Minister of Australia".
(2010). "Ministries and Cabinets". [[Parliament of Australia]].
(13 May 2025). "Ministry list as at 13 May 2025".

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