COMMONWEALTH MINISTRIES ======================================================================================== Ministers appear in the order given in successive editions of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Handbook. Later appointments appear in chronological order. Scullin Ministry (22 October 1929 to 6 January 1932) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labor Rt Hon James Scullin MP: Prime Minister, Minister for External Affairs, Minister for Industry. Treasurer 9 July 1930 to 29 January 1931 Hon Edward Theodore MP: Treasurer to 9 July 1930. Treasurer from 29 January 1931 Hon Frank Brennan MP: Attorney-General Hon Arthur Blakeley MP: Minister for Home Affairs Hon Albert Green MP: Minister for Defence to 4 February 1931. Minister for Works and Railways, Postmaster-General from 4 February 1931 Hon James Fenton MP: Minister for Trade and Customs to 4 February 1931 Hon Frank Anstey MP: Minister for Health, Minister for Repatriation to 3 March 1931 Hon Joseph Lyons MP: Postmaster-General, Minister for Works and Railways to 4 February 1931 Hon Parker Moloney MP: Minister for Markets and Transport Senator Hon John Daly: Vice-President of the Executive Council to 3 March 1931. Minister for Defence 4 February 1931 to 3 March 1931. Assistant Minister from 26 June 1931 Hon Frank Forde MP: Minister Assisting the Minister for Trade and Customs to 4 February 1931. Minister for Trade and Customs from 4 February 1931 Senator Hon John Barnes : Assistant Minister for Works and Railways to 3 March 1931. Vice-President of the Executive Council from 3 March 1931 Hon John Beasley MP: Assistant Minister for Industry to 3 March 1931 ---------- Hon Jack Holloway MP: Assistant to the Treasurer, Assistant Minister for Industry and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 3 March 1931 to 12 June 1931 Hon Ben Chifley MP: Minister for Defence from 3 March 1931 Hon Charles Culley: Assistant Minister for Transport and War Services 3 March 1931 to 24 June 1931 Senator Hon John Dooley: Assistant Minister for Works and Railways from 3 March 1931 Hon John McNeill MP: Minister for Health, Minister for Repatriation from 3 March 1931 Hon Lou Cunningham MP: Assistant Minister from 26 June 1931