Fifth Fraser Ministry

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The Fifth Fraser Ministry was the forty-eighth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 3 November 1980 to 11 March 1983.

Liberal Party of Australia–National Country Party Coalition

Ministers

Prime Minister: John Malcolm Fraser

Deputy Prime Minister: John Douglas Anthony (NCP)

Minister for Trade and Resources: John Douglas Anthony (NCP)

Treasurer: John Winston Howard

Minister for Primary Industry: Peter James Nixon (NCP)

Minister for Administrative Services: Kevin Eugene Newman

Vice-president of Executive Council: Denis James Killen

Minister for Industry and Commerce: Philip Reginald Lynch (to 11 October 1982). Andrew Sharp Peacock (from 11 October 1982)

Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations: Ian Malcolm Macphee

Minister for Transport and Construction: Ralph James Dunnet Hunt (NCP)

Minister for Aviation: Wallace Clyde Fife

Minister for Education: Senator Peter Erne Baume

Minister for Foreign Affairs: Anthony Austin Street

Minister for Defence: Ian McCahon Sinclair (NCP)

Minister for Finance: Senator Margaret Georgina Constance Guilfoyle

Minister for Social Security: Senator Frederick Michael Chaney

Attorney-General: Senator Peter Drew Durack

Minister for Defence Support: Robert Ian Viner

Minister for Communications: Neil Anthony Brown

Minister for Health: James Joseph Carlton

Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: John Charles Hodges

Minister for Aboriginal Affairs: Ian Bonython Cameron Wilson

Minister for the Capital Territory: William Michael Hodgman

Minister for Veterans' Affairs: Senator Anthony John Messner

Minister for Science and Technology: David Scott Thomson (NCP)

Minister for National Development and Energy: Senator John Leslie Carrick

Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment: Daniel Thomas McVeigh (NCP)

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