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INCUMBENT
  PartyLabor
NameAnthony Albanese
Won05/21/2022
Votes77 (50.99%)
Margin19 (+12.58%)
Term05/22/2022 - 05/23/2026
Administration
  Deputy Prime Minister  Richard Marles 0 22 A +100.00%
Cabinet
  Treasurer  Jim Chalmers 0 22 A +100.00%
  Minister for Foreign Affairs  Penny Wong 0 22 A +100.00%
  Minister for Finance  Katy Gallagher 0 22 A +100.00%
  Minister for Health  Mark Butler 1 22 +100.00%
 Minister for Trade     
  Attorney-General  Mark Dreyfus 1 22 A +100.00%
  Minister for Agriculture  Murray Watt 1 22 +100.00%
  Minister for Communications  Michelle Rowland 1 22 +100.00%
  Minister for Defence  Richard Marles 1 22 +100.00%
  Minister for Education  Jason Clare 1 22 +100.00%
  Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business  Tony Burke 1 22 +100.00%
  Minister for Energy  Chris Bowen 1 22 +100.00%
  Minister for Environment  Tanya Plibersek 1 22 +100.00%
  Minister for Families & Social Services  Amanda Rishworth 1 22 +100.00%
  Minister for Government Services  Bill Shorten 1 22 +100.00%
 Minister for Immigration and Citizenship     
  Minister for Indigenous Affairs  Linda Burney 1 22 +100.00%
  Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development  Catherine King 1 22 +100.00%
 Minister for Regional Services, Sport, Local Government and Decentralisation     
  Minister for Women  Katy Gallagher 0 22 A +100.00%
  Special Minister of State  Don Farrell 0 22 A +100.00%
Outer Ministry
 Minister for Aging     
 Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs and Assistant Treasurer     
 Minister for Defence Science and Personnel     
 Minister for Home Affairs     
 Minister for Housing and the Status of Women     
 Minister for Small Business and Tourism     
 Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Governance     
 Minister for Veterans' Affairs     
 Minister for Workforce Participation     
Parliamentary Secretaries
 Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Prime Minister for Social Inclusion and the Voluntary Sector     
 Parliamentary Secretary for Defence     
 Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement     
 Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services     
 Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance     
 Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural affairs and Settlement Programs     
 Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs     
 Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Northern Australia     
 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health     
 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade     
 Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister     
 Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare     


Institutions DETAILS
Parents > Australia  
Websitehttp://www.pm.gov.au/
Established January 01, 1901
Disbanded Still Active
ContributorUser 13
Last ModifiedJuan Croniqueur March 27, 2023 07:22pm
Description The office of Prime Minister is in practice the most powerful political office in the Commonwealth of Australia.

By convention, the Prime Minister is the leader of the party or coalition which has the most seats in the lower house of the Federal Parliament, the House of Representatives. In times of constitutional crisis, however, this convention can be broken if necessary; this has occurred twice. At the time of Federation, no parliament had yet been established, so Edmund Barton was temporarily appointed as Prime Minister until elections were held. More controversially, during the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975, Malcolm Fraser was appointed to replace Gough Whitlam.

By convention, the Prime Minister is always a member of the lower house of parliament. The Prime Minister can remain in office for as long as he retains the majority support of the lower house of parliament and retains his own seat in Parliament. In the rare event that the Prime Minister's party wins an election but the Prime Minister loses his seat, it is possible for the Governor-General to appoint someone other than a member of Parliament a Minister (and hence Prime Minister) for up to three months. During this time a member of the Prime Minister's party with a safe seat would be forced to resign, and the Prime Minister would then be elected as member for that seat.

The constitutional crisis of 1975 shows that a Prime Minister may be removed if seriously opposed in the Senate, even though he may have the support of the majority of the House. This however only applies if the Senate refuses to pass essential Government legislation, like the Budget. (See Loss of Supply). The Senate in recent years has frequently refused to pass major (though non-essential) government legislation.


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