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List of Ministers for Education

The following is a list of the Ministers for Education from 1876 to the present.

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Samuel W. Griffith
1876-1879
1883-1885

Arthur T. Palmer
1879-1881

Archibald Archer
1882-1883

Charles S. Mein
1885-1885

Berkeley B. Moreton
1885-1888

John Donaldson
1888-1889

Charles Powers
1889-1890

William O. Hodgkinson
1890-1893

Walter H. Wilson
1893-1894
1899-1899

Robert Philp
1894-1895

David H. Dalrymple
1895-1899
1902-1903

William H. Browne
1899-1899

James G. Drake
1899-1901

John Murray
1901-1902

Andrew H. Barlow
1903-1907
1908-1909

William Stephens
1907-1908

Walter H. Barnes
1909-1911

Kenneth M. Grant
1911-1912

James W. Blair
1912-1915

Herbert F. Hardacre
1915-1919

John S. Huxham
1919-1924

Frank T. Brennan
1924-1925

Thomas Wilson
1925-1929

Reginald M. King
1929-1932

Frank A. Cooper
1932-1938

Henry A. Bruce
1938-1941
1947-1950

William F. Smith
1941-1942

Arthur Jones
1942-1944

James Larcombe
1944-1946

Thomas L. Williams
1946-1947

George H. Devries
1950-1956

Leslie F. Diplock
1956-1957

Jack C. A. Pizzey
1957-1968

Alan R. Fletcher
1968-1974

Thomas G. Newbery
1974-1975

Valmond J. Bird
1975-1980

William A. M. Gunn
1980-1982

Lionel W. Powell
1982-1987

Michael J. Ahern
1987-1987

Brian G. Littleproud
1987-1989

Paul J.Braddy
1989-1992

Patrick Comben
1992-1995

David Hamill
1995-1996

Bob Quinn
1996-1998

Dean Wells
1998-Feb 2001

Anna Bligh
Feb 2001-July 2005

Rod Welford
July 2005-Mar 2009

Geoff Wilson
Mar 2009-Feb 2011

Cameron Dick
Minister for Education and Industrial Relations
Feb 2011-March 2012

Stirling Hinchliffe
Minister for Employment, Skills and Mining
Feb 2011-March 2012

John-Paul Langbroek
April 2012-

Last reviewed: 29 March 2011
Last updated: 4 April 2011