5th Parliament
Elected 31 May 1913 · first met 9 July 1913 · dissolved 30 July 1914
The changes below took effect from its election on 31 May 1913 to 4 September 1914, the day before the next election, so they count the work of the government it produced.
- Andrew Fisher (Labor)
- Joseph Cook (Commonwealth Liberal)
Changes
2
1 renamed from1 split from
Departments of State
0 / 0
created / abolished
Other bodies
7 / 3
created / ended
Administrative Arrangements Orders
0
on the Federal Register, which holds few orders before 2001
What was happening
- First World War · 4 August 1914 to 11 November 1918 · Australia at war from the British declaration to the Armistice. (War or armed conflict)
Other bodies created (7)
- Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction 1913–1920
- Royal Commission on Powellised Timber 1913–1914
- Federal Taxation Office 1914–1973
- Royal Commission upon the Commonwealth Electoral Law and Administration 1914–1915
- Royal Commission on the Meat Export Trade 1914
- Norfolk Island Administration 1914–1979
- Royal Commission on Food Supplies and Trade and Industry during the War 1914
Other bodies ended (3)
Every change (2)
Show every change, day by day
October 1913
- Department of Home Affairs part split off to form Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction