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Cabinet meetings are chaired by the prime minister, and a senior public servant is present to write the minutes and record decisions. Since 1942, every member of the Cabinet has been a member of the Australian Labor Party, the Liberal Party of Australia, or the National Party of Australia.
The National Cabinet is the primary Australian intergovernmental decision-making forum composed of the prime minister and state and territory premiers and chief ministers of Australia’s six states and two mainland territories.
Pages in category "Members of the Cabinet of Australia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 355 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Members of the cabinet are selected by the prime minister and may be added or removed at any time, usually through a cabinet reshuffle. [41] Cabinet meetings are strictly private and occur once a week where vital issues are discussed and policy formulated. The cabinet is not a legal entity; it exists solely by convention.
The National Security Committee (NSC), also known as the National Security Committee of Cabinet, [1] is the paramount decision-making body for national security and major foreign policy matters in the Australian Government. It is a committee of the Cabinet of Australia, though decisions of the NSC do not require the endorsement of the Cabinet ...
Minister for Regional Australia, Local Government and Territories: 2013 Labor Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government: 2022–present Sussan Ley [19] Minister for Health: 2014–2016 Liberal Minister for Sport: 2014–2017 Minister for Aged Care: 2015–2016 Minister for Health and Aged Care: 2016–2017
From 1959 to 1968 the duties of the Cabinet Secretary were handled by the Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department.From 1968 to 1971, the Department of the Cabinet Office existed led by the Secretary to the Cabinet, a senior Australian Public Service departmental secretary [3] From 1971 to 1996, the duties of the Cabinet Secretary were handed by the Secretary of the Department of the Prime ...
In Australian federal politics, the shadow cabinet is the opposition's equivalent to the federal cabinet. It comprises the most senior figures within the opposition, headed by the leader of the opposition as the counterpart to the prime minister of Australia .