List of speakers of the Australian House of Representatives

Below is a list of speakers of the Australian House of Representatives.

The parties shown are those to which the speakers belonged at the time they held office.

List No.NamePortraitPartyStateTerm of officeComments1Sir Frederick HolderIndependentSouth Australia9 May 190123 July 1909Resigned from Free Trade Party upon election as speaker. Died in office.2Dr Carty SalmonLiberalVictoria28 July 190919 February 19103Charles McDonaldLaborQueensland1 July 191023 April 1913First time in role.4Sir Elliot JohnsonLiberalNew South Wales9 July 191330 July 1914First time in role.(3)Charles McDonaldLaborQueensland8 October 191426 March 1917Second time in role. First Speaker to serve multiple terms.(4)Sir Elliot JohnsonNationalistNew South Wales14 June 19176 November 1922Second time in role. Most recent Speaker to serve multiple terms.5William WattNationalistVictoria28 February 19233 October 1925First former government minister to become Speaker.6Sir Littleton GroomNationalistQueensland13 January 192616 September 1929Defeated in his own seat.7Norman MakinLaborSouth Australia20 November 192927 November 19318George MackayUnited AustraliaQueensland17 February 19327 August 19349Sir George John BellUnited AustraliaTasmania23 October 193427 August 194010Walter NairnUnited AustraliaWestern Australia20 November 194021 June 1943Remained as speaker following the mid-term fall of the Fadden minority government in 1941, until defeated in his own seat at the 1943 election.11Sol RosevearLaborNew South Wales22 June 194331 October 194912Archie CameronLiberalSouth Australia22 February 19509 August 1956Died in office.13Sir John "Jack" McLeayLiberalSouth Australia29 August 195631 October 196614Sir William AstonLiberalNew South Wales21 February 19672 November 1972Defeated in his own seat.15Jim CopeLaborNew South Wales27 February 197327 February 1975Resigned after the Whitlam government refused to support his naming of the Minister for Labour and Immigration, Clyde Cameron.16Gordon ScholesLaborVictoria27 February 197511 November 197517Sir Billy SneddenLiberalVictoria17 February 19764 February 198318Dr Harry Jenkins Sr.LaborVictoria21 April 198320 December 1985First Speaker whose son was a later Speaker.19Joan ChildLaborVictoria11 February 198628 August 1989First female Speaker.20Leo McLeayLaborNew South Wales29 August 19898 February 199321Stephen MartinLaborNew South Wales4 May 199329 January 199622Bob HalversonLiberalVictoria30 April 19963 March 199823Ian SinclairNationalNew South Wales4 March 199831 August 199824Neil AndrewLiberalSouth Australia10 November 199831 August 200425David HawkerLiberalVictoria16 November 200417 October 200726Harry Jenkins Jr.LaborVictoria12 February 200824 November 2011First Speaker whose father was a Speaker.27Peter SlipperIndependentQueensland24 November 20119 October 2012Resigned from the Liberal National Party the day after his election as Speaker. Resigned the speakership in the midst of court proceedings. First independent Speaker since Frederick Holder.28Anna BurkeLaborVictoria9 October 20125 August 201329Bronwyn BishopLiberalNew South Wales12 November 20132 August 2015First non-Labor female Speaker (third overall). Stood down after public outcry about profligate use of taxpayer funded travel benefits.30Tony SmithLiberalVictoria10 August 201523 November 202131Andrew WallaceLiberalQueensland23 November 202126 July 202232Milton DickLaborQueensland26 July 2022Incumbent

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