7th Parliament
Elected 5 May 1917 · first met 14 June 1917 · dissolved 3 November 1919
The changes below took effect from its election on 5 May 1917 to 12 December 1919, the day before the next election, so they count the work of the government it produced.
- Billy Hughes (Nationalist)
Changes
7
1 renamed from2 merged from1 split from3 replaced
Departments of State
1 / 0
created / abolished
Other bodies
17 / 10
created / ended
Administrative Arrangements Orders
0
on the Federal Register, which holds few orders before 2001
The biggest reshuffle took effect on 8 April 1918, when 2 changes landed on one day.
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)
- Spanish flu pandemic · January 1919 to December 1919 · The influenza pandemic reaches Australia; quarantine passes from the states to the Commonwealth. (Pandemic or economic crisis)
Departments of State created (1)
- Repatriation Department 1918–1974
Other bodies created (17)
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- Royal Commission on Navy and Defence Administration 1917–1919
- Commonwealth Police Force 1917–1919
- Royal Commission on the War—Australian Imperial Force 1918
- Repatriation Commission 1918–present
- Royal Commission on Public Service Administration 1918–1920
- Commonwealth Prices Advisory Board 1918–1920
- Royal Commission upon the Public Expenditure of the Commonwealth of Australia with a View to Effecting Economies 1918–1921
- Royal Commission on the Taxation of Leasehold Estates in Crown Lands 1918–1919
- Australian War Museum 1919–1925
- War Service Homes Commission 1919–1947
- Royal Commission on the Sugar Industry 1919–1920
- Royal Commission on Industrial Troubles on Melbourne Wharfs 1919–1920
- Royal Commission on Late German New Guinea 1919–1920
- Royal Commission to Inquire into Complaints by the Munition Worker Passengers to Australia by the Transport Bahia Castillo 1919
- Commonwealth Investigation Branch 1919–1946
- Royal Commission on Northern Territory Administration 1919–1920
- Royal Commission on the Basic Wage 1919–1920
Other bodies ended (10)
- Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Fund 1916–1918
- Royal Commission on Federal Capital Administration 1916–1917
- Commonwealth Prices Board 1916–1918
- Special Intelligence Bureau 1917–1919
- Royal Commission on Java and the East Indies, Singapore and the Straits Settlements 1917–1918
- Australian War Records Section 1917–1919
- Royal Commission on Navy and Defence Administration 1917–1919
- Commonwealth Police Force 1917–1919
- Royal Commission on the War—Australian Imperial Force 1918
- Royal Commission on the Taxation of Leasehold Estates in Crown Lands 1918–1919
Every change (7)
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December 1917
- Attorney-General's Department part split off to form Commonwealth Police Force