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

#	Name	Portrait	Party	Term in Office		Comments
1	Hon. Sir Frederick Holder		Independent	9 May 1901	23 July 1909	Resigned from Free Trade Party upon election as speaker. Died in office.
2	Hon. Dr Carty Salmon		Commonwealth Liberal	28 July 1909	19 February 1910
3	Hon. Charles McDonald		Labor	1 July 1910	23 April 1913	First time in role.
4	Hon. Sir Elliot Johnson		Commonwealth Liberal	9 July 1913	30 July 1914	First time in role.
	Hon. Charles McDonald		Labor	8 October 1914	26 March 1917	Second time in role.
	Hon. Sir Elliot Johnson		Nationalist	14 June 1917	6 November 1922	Second time in role.
5	Rt. Hon. William Watt		Nationalist	28 February 1923	3 October 1925
6	Hon. Sir Littleton Groom		Nationalist	13 January 1927	16 September 1929	Defeated in his own seat.
7	Hon. Norman Makin		Labor	20 November 1929	27 November 1931
8	Hon. George Mackay		United Australia	17 February 1932	7 August 1934
9	Hon. Sir George John Bell		United Australia	23 October 1934	27 August 1940
10	Hon. Walter Nairn		United Australia	20 November 1940	21 June 1943	Continued as speaker when the Curtin Labor government formed in 1941. Defeated in his own seat.
11	Hon. Sol Rosevear		Labor	22 June 1943	31 October 1949
12	Hon. Archie Cameron		Liberal	22 February 1950	9 August 1956	Died in office.
13	Hon. Sir John McLeay		Liberal	29 August 1956	31 October 1966
14	Hon. Sir William Aston		Liberal	21 February 1967	2 November 1972	Defeated in his own seat.
15	Hon. Jim Cope		Labor	27 February 1973	27 February 1975
16	Hon. Gordon Scholes		Labor	27 February 1975	11 November 1975
17	Rt. Hon. Sir Billy Snedden		Liberal	17 February 1976	4 February 1983
18	Hon. Dr. Harry Jenkins		Labor	21 April 1983	20 December 1985	First Speaker whose son was a later Speaker.
19	Hon. Joan Child		Labor	11 February 1986	28 August 1989	First female Speaker.
20	Hon. Leo McLeay		Labor	29 August 1989	8 February 1993
21	Hon. Stephen Martin		Labor	4 May 1993	29 January 1996
22	Hon. Bob Halverson		Liberal	30 April 1996	3 March 1998
23	Rt. Hon. Ian Sinclair		National	4 March 1998	31 August 1998
24	Hon. Neil Andrew		Liberal	10 November 1998	31 August 2004
25	Hon. David Hawker		Liberal	16 November 2004	17 October 2007
26	Harry Jenkins		Labor	12 February 2008	24 November 2011[1]	First Speaker whose father was a Speaker.
27	Hon. Peter Slipper		Independent	24 November 2011[2]	9 October 2012[2]	Resigned from the Liberal National Party the day after his election as speaker. Resigned in the midst of court proceedings.
28	Hon. Anna Burke		Labor	9 October 2012[3]	12 November 2013
29	Hon. Bronwyn Bishop		Liberal	12 November 2013	2 August 2015	Stood down after much public outcry about profligate use of taxpayer funded travel benefits.
30	Hon. Tony Smith		Liberal	10 August 2015	present

References

1. ↑ "Biography for Jenkins, Henry (Harry) Alfred". Australian Parliamentary Library. Retrieved 2 September 2013. 
2. 1 2 "Slipper, Peter Neil, (the Hon)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 September 2013. 
3. ↑ "Biography for Burke, Anna Elizabeth". Australian Parliamentary Library. Retrieved 2 September 2013.