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First Chifley Ministry
The First Chifley Ministry was the thirty-third Australian Commonwealth ministry, and held office from 13 July 1945 to 1 November 1946.
Australian Labor Party
- Rt Hon Ben Chifley, MP: Prime Minister, Treasurer
- Rt Hon Frank Forde, MP: Minister for the Army. Minister for Defence (from 15 August 1946)
- Hon Dr H.V. Evatt, KC MP: Attorney-General, Minister for External Affairs
- Hon Jack Beasley, MP: Minister for Defence (to
and regained it at the 1934 election, when it included the Sydney suburb of Liverpool—which was then semi-rural—for the first time and had lost Goulburn. He was Minister for Home Security and Minister assisting the Treasurer in John Curtin's first and second ministry and Minister for Works and Housing in Ben Chifley's first ministry. The Chifley government was defeated at the 1949, but Lazzarini was re-elected for Werriwa, which had been redistributed to lose the llawarra.
Lazzarini died of cerebral haemorrhage in the