| The First Howard Ministry (Cabinet Ministers in bold) |
| No. | Ministry | Name |
| 1 |
Prime Minister |
The Hon. John Winston Howard MP |
| 2 |
Minister for Trade and Deputy Prime Minister |
The Hon.Timothy Andrew Fischer MP |
| 3 |
Treasurer |
The Hon. Peter Howard Costello MP |
| 4 |
Minister for Primary Industries and Energy |
The Hon. John Duncan Anderson MP |
| 5 |
Minister for the Environment and Leader of the Government in the Senate |
Senator the Hon. Robert Murray Hill |
| 6 |
Minister for Communications and the Arts and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate |
Senator the Hon. Richard Kenneth Robert Alston |
| 7 |
Minister for Industrial Relations, Leader of the House and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service |
The Hon. Peter Keaston Reith MP |
| 8 |
Minister for Social Security and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women |
Senator the Hon. Jocelyn Margaret Newman |
| 9 |
Minister for Foreign Affairs |
The Hon. Alexander John Gosse Downer MP |
| 10 |
Minister for Industry, Science and Tourism and Vice President of the Executive Council |
The Hon. John COlinton Moore MP |
| 11 |
Minister for Defence |
The Hon. Ian Murray McLachlan AO, MP |
| 12 |
Minister for Transport and Regional Development |
The Hon. John Randall Sharp MP |
| 13 |
Minister for Health and Family Services |
The Hon. Michael Richard Lewis Wooldridge MP |
| 14 |
Minister for Finance |
The Hon. John Joseph Fahey MP |
| 15 |
Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs |
Senator the Hon. Amanda Eloise Vanstone |
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| 16 |
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs |
The Hon. Philip Maxwell Ruddock |
| 17 |
Minister for Science and Technology and Deputy Leader of the House |
The Hon. Peter John McGauran MP |
| 18 |
Minister for Schools, Vocational Education and Training and Minister Assisting the Minister for Finance for Privatisation |
The Hon. David Alistair Kemp MP |
| 19 |
Assistant Treasurer |
Senator the Hon. James Robert Short |
| 20 |
Minister for Resources and Energy |
Senator the Hon. Warwick Raymond Parer |
| 21 |
Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs |
The Hon. Geoffrey Danial Prosser MP |
| 22 |
Minister for Family Services |
The Hon. Judith Eleanor Moylan MP |
| 23 |
Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel |
The Hon. Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop MP |
| 24 |
Attorney-General and Minister for Justice |
The Hon. Daryl Robert Williams AM, QC, MP |
| 25 |
Minister for Sport, Territories and Local Government |
The Hon. Warwick Leslie Smith MP |
| 26 |
Minister for Veterans' Affairs |
The Hon. Bruce Craig Scott MP |
| 27 |
Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs |
Senator the Hon. John Herron |
| 28 |
Minister for Administrative Services |
The Hon. David Francis Jull MP |
| The First Howard Ministry - Parliamentary Secretaries |
| No. | Parliamentary Secretary | Name |
| 1 |
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet) to the Prime Minister |
The Hon. Christopher Gordon Miles MP |
| 2 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade and the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy |
Senator the Hon. David Gordon Cadell Brownhill |
| 3 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer |
Senator the Hon. Brian Francis Gibson |
| 4 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Security |
Senator the Hon. Charles Roderick Kemp |
| 5 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment |
Senator the Hon. Ian Gordon Campbell |
| 6 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs |
The Hon. Andrew Peter Thomson |
| 7 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport and Regional Development |
Senator the Hon. Grant Ernest John Tambling |
| 8 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services |
Senator the Hon. Robert Leslie Woods |
| 9 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs |
The Hon. Anthony John Abbott MP |