Third Lyons ministry | |
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22nd Ministry of Australia | |
Joseph Lyons Earle Page | |
Date formed | 9 November 1934 |
Date dissolved | 29 November 1937 |
People and organisations | |
Monarch | George V Edward VIII George VI |
Governor-General | Sir Isaac Isaacs Lord Gowrie |
Prime Minister | Joseph Lyons |
No. of ministers | 15 |
Member party | United Australia–Country coalition |
Status in legislature | Majority government |
Opposition party | Labor |
Opposition leader | James Scullin John Curtin |
History | |
Outgoing election | 23 October 1937 |
Legislature term | 14th |
Predecessor | Second Lyons ministry |
Successor | Fourth Lyons ministry |
The Third Lyons ministry (United Australia–Country Coalition) was the 22nd ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 10th Prime Minister, Joseph Lyons. The Third Lyons ministry succeeded the Second Lyons ministry, which dissolved on 9 November 1934 after Lyons entered into a formal Coalition with Earle Page and his Country Party; the second such coalition after that of the Bruce government. The ministry was replaced by the Fourth Lyons ministry on 29 November 1937 following the 1937 federal election.[1]
Robert Menzies, who died in 1978, was the last surviving member of the Third Lyons ministry; Menzies was also the last surviving member of the Second Lyons ministry. Harold Thorby was the last surviving Country minister.