Prime Minister - The Hon. John Winston Howard MP
Minister for Trade and Deputy Prime Minister - The Hon.Timothy Andrew Fischer MP
Treasurer - The Hon. Peter Howard Costello MP
Minister for Primary Industries and Energy - The Hon. John Duncan Anderson MP
Minister for the Environment and Leader of the Government in the Senate - Senator the Hon. Robert Murray Hill
Minister for Communications and the Arts and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate - Senator the Hon. Richard Kenneth Robert Alston
Minister for Workplace Relations and Small Business, and Leader of the Government in the House of Representatives - The Hon. Peter Keaston Reith MP [since 11-07-97, formerly Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service]
Minister for Social Security and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women - Senator the Hon. Jocelyn Margaret Newman
Minister for Foreign Affairs - The Hon. Alexander John Gosse Downer MP
Minister for Industry, Science and Tourism and Vice President of the Executive Council - The Hon. John Colinton Moore MP
Minister for Defence - The Hon. Ian Murray McLachlan AO, MP
Minister for Transport and Regional Development - The Hon. John Randall Sharp MP [resigned 24-09-97]
Minister for Health and Family Services - The Hon. Michael Richard Lewis Wooldridge MP
Minister for Finance - The Hon. John Joseph Fahey MP
Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs - Senator the Hon. Amanda Eloise Vanstone
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs - The Hon. Philip Maxwell Ruddock
Minister for Science and Technology and Deputy Leader of the House - The Hon. Peter John McGauran MP [resigned 26-09-97]
Minister for Schools, Vocational Education and Training, Minister Assisting the Minister for Finance for Privatisation and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service [since 11-07-97] - The Hon. David Alistair Kemp MP
Assistant Treasurer and Manager of Government Business in the Senate - Senator the Hon. Charles Roderick Kemp [formerly Senator the Hon. James Robert Short - resignation announced 13-10-96]
Minister for Resources and Energy - Senator the Hon. Warwick Raymond Parer
Minister for Family Services - The Hon. Judith Eleanor Moylan MP
Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel - The Hon. Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop MP
Attorney-General and Minister for Justice - The Hon. Daryl Robert Williams AM, QC, MP
Minister for Sport, Territories and Local Government - The Hon. Warwick Leslie Smith MP
Minister for Veterans' Affairs - The Hon. Bruce Craig Scott MP
Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs - Senator the Hon. John Herron
Minister for Administrative Services - The Hon. David Francis Jull MP [resigned 24-09-97]
Minister for Customs and Consumer Affairs - The Hon. Christopher Ellison MP [since 11-07-97]
