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28th Ministry of Australia
Arthur Fadden
Robert Menzies
Date formed28 August 1941
Date dissolved7 October 1941
People and organisations
MonarchGeorge VI
Governor-GeneralLord Gowrie
Prime MinisterArthur Fadden
No. of ministers19
Member partyCountry–United Australia coalition
Status in legislatureMinority government
Opposition partyLabor
Opposition leaderJohn Curtin
History
Legislature term16th
PredecessorThird Menzies ministry
SuccessorFirst Curtin ministry

The Fadden ministry (Country–United Australia Coalition) was the 28th ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 13th Prime Minister, Arthur Fadden. The Fadden ministry succeeded the Third Menzies ministry, which dissolved on 28 August 1941 following the resignation of Robert Menzies as Prime Minister. A subsequent joint meeting of the Coalition parties elected Country leader Fadden as Menzies' successor. The ministry was replaced by the First Curtin ministry on 7 October 1941 after the independent crossbenchers Alexander Wilson and Arthur Coles withdrew their support for the Fadden government and voted with John Curtin and his Labor Party to bring the government down in a de facto no-confidence motion.[1]

Percy Spender, who died in 1985, was the last surviving member of the Fadden ministry; Spender was also the last surviving minister of the first Menzies government and the Fourth Menzies ministry. John McEwen was the last surviving Country minister.

Ministry

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Party Minister Portrait Portfolio
Country Arthur Fadden
(1894–1973)

MP for Darling Downs
(1936–1949)

File:FaddenPEO.jpg
United Australia Robert Menzies
(1894–1978)

MP for Kooyong
(1934–1966)

File:Robert Menzies in 1939.jpg
United Australia Billy Hughes
(1862–1952)

MP for North Sydney
(1922–1949)

File:Billy Hughes 1939 (cropped).jpg
United Australia Percy Spender
(1897–1985)

MP for Warringah
(1937–1951)

File:Percy Spender 1940.jpg
United Australia George McLeay
(1892–1955)

Senator for South Australia
(1935–1947)

File:George McLeay.jpg
Country John McEwen
(1900–1980)

MP for Indi
(1937–1949)

File:John McEwen 1940.jpg
United Australia Harry Foll
(1890–1977)

Senator for Queensland
(1917–1947)

File:Harry Foll 1940.jpg
Country Sir Earle Page
(1880–1961)

MP for Cowper
(1919–1961)

File:Earle Page.jpg
United Australia Sir Frederick Stewart
(1884–1961)

MP for Parramatta
(1931–1946)

File:Frederick Stewart.jpg
United Australia Philip McBride
(1892–1982)

Senator for South Australia
(1937–1944)

File:Philip McBride 1930s.png
United Australia Eric Harrison
(1892–1974)

MP for Wentworth
(1931–1956)

File:Eric John Harrison.jpg
United Australia Harold Holt
(1908–1967)

MP for Fawkner
(1935–1949)

File:Harold Holt 1940s.png
United Australia Herbert Collett
(1877–1947)

Senator for Western Australia
(1933–1947)

File:Herbert Collett 1940 (cropped).jpg
Country Thomas Collins
(1884–1945)

MP for Hume
(1931–1943)

File:Thomas Collins.jpg
United Australia John Leckie
(1872–1947)

Senator for Victoria
(1935–1947)

File:John William Leckie.jpg
Country Larry Anthony
(1897–1957)

MP for Richmond
(1937–1957)

File:Hubert Lawrence Anthony 1938.jpg
United Australia Eric Spooner
(1891–1952)

MP for Robertson
(1940–1943)

File:Eric Sydney Spooner (cropped).jpg
Country Joe Abbott}
(1891–1965)

MP for New England
(1940–1949)

File:Joe Abbott.jpg
United Australia Allan McDonald
(1888–1953)

MP for Corangamite
(1940–1953)

File:Allan McDonald.jpg

Notes

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