List of 2008 Australian incumbents
This is a list of 2008 Australian incumbents.
Federal government
Cabinet
- Minister for Infrastructure and Transport – Anthony Albanese
- Treasurer – Wayne Swan
- Minister for Trade – Simon Crean
- Minister for Foreign Affairs – Stephen Smith
- Minister for Defence – Joel Fitzgibbon
- Minister for Finance and Deregulation – Lindsay Tanner
- Minister for Health and Ageing – Nicola Roxon
- Attorney General – Robert McClelland
- Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts – Peter Garrett
- Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy – Stephen Conroy
- Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry – Tony Burke
- Minister for Immigration and Citizenship – Chris Evans
- Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs – Jenny Macklin
- Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research – Kim Carr
- Special Minister of State – John Faulkner
- Minister for Climate Change and Water – Penny Wong
- Minister for Human Services – Joe Ludwig
- Minister for Resources and Energy – Martin Ferguson
- Also Minister for Tourism
Other Ministers
- Minister for Home Affairs – Bob Debus
- Minister for Youth and Sport – Kate Ellis
- Minister for Defence Science and Personnel – Warren Snowdon
- Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs and Assistant Treasurer – Chris Bowen
- Minister for Veterans' Affairs – Alan Griffin
- Minister for Ageing – Justine Elliot
- Minister for Employment Participation – Brendan O'Connor
- Minister for the Status of Women – Tanya Plibersek
- Also Minister for Housing
Members of Parliament
See: 42nd Australian parliament
And: Members of the Australian Senate, 2005–2008, to Members of the Australian Senate, 2008–2011
Opposition leaders
Presiding officers
High Court justices
Other
- Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia – Glenn Stevens
- Chief of the Defence Force – Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, AO
States
Premiers
- Premier of New South Wales – Morris Iemma, to Nathan Rees
- Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann
- Premier of Queensland – Anna Bligh
- Premier of Tasmania – Paul Lennon, then David Bartlett
- Premier of Western Australia – Alan Carpenter, then Colin Barnett
- Premier of Victoria – John Brumby
- Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory – Jon Stanhope
- Chief Minister of the Northern Territory – Paul Henderson
Governors
- Governor of New South Wales – Marie Bashir
- Governor of South Australia – Kevin Scarce
- Governor of Queensland – Quentin Bryce, to Penelope Wensley AC
- Governor of Tasmania – William Cox, to Peter Underwood AC
- Governor of Western Australia – Ken Michael
- Governor of Victoria – David de Kretser
- Administrator of the Northern Territory – Tom Pauling
Lord Mayors
Religious leaders
- Roman Catholic Church
- Roman Catholic Bishop of Adelaide – Archbishop Philip Wilson
- Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane – Archbishop John Bathersby
- Roman Catholic Bishop of Hobart – Archbishop Adrian Leo Doyle
- Roman Catholic Bishop of Melbourne – Archbishop Denis Hart
- Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth – Archbishop Barry Hickey
- Roman Catholic Bishop of Sydney – Cardinal Archbishop George Pell
- Uniting Church in Australia
- Anglican Church of Australia
- Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia – Archbishop Phillip Aspinall
- Anglican Bishop of Adelaide – Archbishop Jeffrey Driver
- Anglican Bishop of Brisbane – Archbishop Phillip Aspinall
- Anglican Bishop of Melbourne – Archbishop Philip Freier
- Anglican Bishop of Perth – Archbishop Roger Herft
- Anglican Bishop of Sydney – Archbishop Peter Jensen
- Anglican Bishop of Hobart – Archbishop John Harrower
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