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The Morrison Government is the federal executive Government of Australia led by the Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison of the Liberal Party of Australia since 24 August 2018. The government consists of members of the Liberal-National Coalition. Michael McCormack is the leader of the junior party in the Coalition, the National Party, and serves as Deputy Prime Minister. The prime ministership of Scott Morrison commenced on 24 August 2018, when he was sworn in by the Governor-General of Australia. Following Morrison's victory in the 2019 federal election, the Second Morrison Ministry was formed in 2019; this succeeded the First Morrison Ministry, which was dissolved in May 2019.

Karen Lesley Andrews is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2010, representing the Division of McPherson in Queensland. She is a member of the Liberal National Party, and sits with the Liberal Party in parliament. She has been the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology in the Morrison Government since August 2018. From 2014 until August 2018, Andrews served as a parliamentary secretary or assistant minister in the Abbott and Turnbull Governments. She has been Assistant Minister for Vocational Education and Skills since July 2016, having previously been Assistant Minister for Science.

The 2019 Australian federal budget was the federal budget to fund government services and operations for the 2019–20 financial year. The budget was presented to the House of Representatives by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on 2 April 2019. It was the sixth budget to be handed down by the Liberal/National Coalition since their election to government at the 2013 federal election, and the first budget to be handed down by Frydenberg and the Morrison Government. All of the figures below are estimates published in the 2019-20 budget documents.

The 2020 Australian federal budget is the federal budget to fund government services and operations for the 2020–21 financial year. The budget was presented to the House of Representatives by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on 6 October 2020. It is the seventh budget to be handed down by the Liberal/National Coalition since their election to government at the 2013 federal election, and the second budget to be handed down by Frydenberg and the Morrison Government.

Simon John Birmingham is an Australian politician who has served as a Senator for South Australia since 2007. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has been Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment in the Morrison Government since 2018. He previously served as Minister for Education and Training in the Turnbull Government from 2015 to 2018, and as a parliamentary secretary and assistant minister in the Abbott Government.

Scott Andrew Buchholz is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2010 federal election, representing the Division of Wright in Queensland. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland, and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.

Matthew James Canavan is an Australian politician. He was elected to the Australian Senate representing the state of Queensland at the 2013 federal election for the term beginning 1 July 2014. He won re-election at the 2016 election. He served as the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia between February 2016 and February 2020. He is a member of the Liberal National Party and sits with National Party in federal paraliament.

Michaelia Clare Cash is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Western Australia since July 2008, representing the Liberal Party. She is the Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education in the Morrison Government, having previously been the Minister for Jobs and Innovation in the Turnbull Government, and before that Minister for Employment and Minister for Women from September 2015 to December 2017.

Michelle Chan is an Australian diplomat who served as Ambassador to Myanmar from May 2008 until January 2011. Chan serves as National Security Adviser to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. In April 2020, Chan was promoted to deputy secretary in the Office of National Intelligence.

Darren Jeffrey Chester is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the House of Representatives for Gippsland in Victoria, representing the Nationals since 2008. Chester has served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Defence Personnel since 5 March 2018, following a rearrangement of the second Turnbull Ministry. He was also Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC until May 2019.

Steven Michele Ciobo is a retired Australian politician who represented the Division of Moncrieff in the House of Representatives from the 2001 federal election until his retirement at the 2019 election. He was a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland, and sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. On 1 March 2019 Ciobo announced his decision to retire from politics at the 2019 federal election.

Richard Mansell Colbeck is an Australian politician. He has been a Senator for Tasmania since 2018, representing the Liberal Party, and served a previous term in the Senate from 2002 to 2016. He has been Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians and Minister for Youth and Sport in the Morrison Government since May 2019.

Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann is a former Australian politician for the Liberal Party. He served as Minister for Finance from 2013 to 2020, and Senator for Western Australia from 2007 to 2020. His seven year, 42 day tenure as Minister for Finance was the longest in Australian history, spanning the Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison governments. He additionally served as Minister for the Public Service from 2018 to 2019.

Mark Maclean Coulton is an Australian politician who has been Minister for Regional Health, Regional Communications and Local Government in the Morrison Government since February 2020. He is a member of the National Party and has served in the House of Representatives since the 2007 federal election, representing the Division of Parkes in New South Wales. He previously served as Minister for Regional Services, Decentralisation and Local Government (2019–2020), Assistant Minister for Trade and Investment (2019–2020), Assistant Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment (2018–2019), and Deputy Speaker of the House (2016–2018).

Peter Craig Dutton is an Australian Liberal Party politician serving as Minister for Home Affairs since 2017, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dickson since November 2001. Dutton served as Minister for Health and Sport from 2013 to 2014, and Minister for Immigration from 2014 to 2017 in the Abbott and Turnbull Government.

David Julian Fawcett is an Australian Liberal Party politician serving as Senator for South Australia since 2011. Fawcett served in the Morrison Government as Assistant Minister for Defence from 2018 to 2019.

Mitchell Peter Fifield is the Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations. He is a former Australian politician who served as a Senator for Victoria from 2004 to 2019, representing the Liberal Party. He was a government minister in the Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison Governments, serving as Assistant Minister for Social Services (2013–2015), Manager of Government Business in the Senate (2013–2015), Minister for Communications (2015–2019), and Minister for the Arts (2015–2019).

The First Morrison Ministry was the 71st ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. The Morrison Ministry succeeded the Second Turnbull Ministry, which dissolved on 24 August 2018 following the Liberal Party leadership spills.

Paul William Fletcher is an Australian Liberal Party politician serving as Minister for Communications and Arts since 2019, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradfield since 2009.

Joshua Anthony Frydenberg is an Australian politician who has been Treasurer of Australia and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party since August 2018. He has been a Member of Parliament for Kooyong since 2010.

Alexander George Hawke MP is an Australian Liberal Party politician serving as Minister for International Development and the Pacific since 2019, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mitchell since 2007. He served as Special Minister of State from 2018 to 2019.

Sarah Moya Henderson is an Australian politician and former journalist. She has been a Senator for Victoria since September 2019, representing the Liberal Party. She previously held the Division of Corangamite in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019.

Gregory Andrew Hunt is an Australian politician who has been Minister for Health since January 2017. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has served in the House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Flinders in Victoria. He has previously served as a parliamentary secretary in the Howard Government (2004–2007), Minister for the Environment (2013–2016), Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science (2016–2017), and Minister for Sport (2017).

Michael Fayat Keenan is a former Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Stirling for the Liberal Party from the 2004 federal election until his retirement in 2019. He was the Minister for Human Services and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Digital Transformation in the Morrison Government from 2017 until his retirement. He previously served as Minister for Justice from 2013 to 2017.

Michelle Leanne Landry is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2013 federal election, representing the Division of Capricornia. She holds the positions of Assistant Minister for Children and Families (2018–present) and Assistant Minister for Northern Australia (2020–present) in the Morrison Government. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland, and sits with the Nationals in federal parliament.

Sussan Penelope Ley is an Australian Liberal Party politician serving as Minister for the Environment since 2019, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Farrer since 2001.

David Kelly Littleproud is an Australian politician who was elected deputy leader of the National Party in February 2020. He serves as Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management in the Morrison Government and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2016, representing the Division of Maranoa.

Michael Francis McCormack is an Australian politician who has been leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia since February 2018. He is also Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, having previously served as Minister for Defence Personnel and Minister for Veterans' Affairs from 2017 to 2018. McCormack has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2010, representing the Division of Riverina in New South Wales. He was a newspaper editor before entering politics.

Bridget McKenzie is an Australian politician. She was elected to federal parliament in 2010 and took her seat as a Senator for Victoria on 1 July 2011. She won re-election at the 2016 election. In December 2017, she was elected deputy leader of the National Party in place of Fiona Nash, who had been ruled ineligible for election to the Senate by the High Court. As a consequence of the terms of the Coalition agreement with the Liberal Party, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull immediately appointed McKenzie to cabinet as Minister for Sport, Minister for Rural Health, and Minister for Regional Communications. When Scott Morrison replaced Turnbull as Prime Minister, he reshuffled the ministry and abolished the latter two positions. McKenzie retained the sports portfolio and also became Minister for Regional Services, Decentralisation and Local Government until the 2019 Federal election, after which she became the first woman to be appointed as Minister for Agriculture.

Scott John Morrison is an Australian politician who has been serving as the 30th Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of Australian Liberal Party since 2018. He became a federal Parliament member in 2007 and had held several ministerial positions including federal Minister for Social Services and Treasurer under Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition administration since 2013. Also, he has been Minister for Public Services in his cabinet since mid-2019.

Kelly Megan O'Dwyer is a former Australian politician. She served in the House of Representatives from 2009 to 2019, representing the Liberal Party, and held senior ministerial office from 2015 to 2019.

Marise Ann Payne is an Australian politician who has been Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Morrison Government since 2018, and was also appointed Minister for Women in 2019. She has been a Senator for New South Wales since 1997, representing the Liberal Party.

Charles Christian Porter is an Australian Liberal Party politician and lawyer serving as Attorney-General of Australia since 2017, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Pearce since 2013. He was appointed Minister for Industrial Relations and Leader of the House in 2019.

Melissa Lee Price is an Australian politician who has been the Minister for Defence Industry in the Morrison Government since May 2019. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2013, representing the Division of Durack in Western Australia for the Liberal Party. She previously served as Minister for the Environment (2018–2019) and Assistant Minister for the Environment (2017–2018).

Christopher Maurice Pyne is a retired Australian Liberal Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sturt from 1993 to 2019.

Linda Karen Reynolds is an Australian politician and former army officer who has been Minister for Defence in the Morrison Government since May 2019. She has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2014, representing the Liberal Party. She previously served as Assistant Minister for Home Affairs (2018–2019), Minister for Defence Industry (2019) and Minister for Emergency Management and North Queensland Recovery (2019). Prior to entering parliament she was a member of the Australian Army Reserve for nearly 30 years and was the first woman in the reserve to attain the rank of brigadier.

Stuart Rowland Robert is an Australian Liberal Party politician serving as Minister for Government Services and the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme since 2019, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Fadden since 2007.

Anne Sowerby Ruston is an Australian Liberal Party politician serving as Minister for Families and Social Services since 2019, and has served as Senator for South Australia since 2012.

Nigel Gregory Scullion is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for the Northern Territory from 2001 to 2019. He was a member of the Country Liberal Party (CLP) and sat with the National Party in federal parliament. He held ministerial office under four prime ministers.

The Second Morrison Ministry is the 72nd ministry of the Australian Government. It is led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The Second Morrison Ministry succeeded the First Morrison Ministry following the 2019 Australian federal election. The ministry was announced on 26 May 2019 and was sworn in on 29 May.

Zdenko Matthew "Zed" Seselja is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory since 2013, representing the Liberal Party. He has been Assistant Minister for Finance, Charities and Electoral Matters in the Morrison Government since May 2019, and has served as an assistant minister in the Morrison and Turnbull Governments since 2016.

Angus Taylor is an Australian politician who is the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia and has sat in the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Hume since 2013. Taylor previously served as the Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity from 2017 to 2018.

Daniel Thomas Tehan is an Australian politician who has been the Minister for Education in the Morrison Government since August 2018. He previously served as Minister for Social Services in the Turnbull Government from December 2017 to August 2018. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2010 election, representing the Division of Wannon in Victoria for the Liberal Party.

Alan Tudge is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2010, representing the Division of Aston for the Liberal Party. He has been a government minister since 2016, serving as Minister for Human Services (2016–2017), Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs (2017–2018), and Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure (2018–present). He was promoted to Cabinet after the 2019 federal election. On 13 December 2019, Tudge was appointed the acting Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs.

Kenneth George Wyatt is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2010, representing the Division of Hasluck for the Liberal Party. He is the first Indigenous Australian elected to the House of Representatives, the first to serve as a government minister, and the first appointed to cabinet. Wyatt was appointed Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health in the Turnbull Government in January 2017, after previously serving as an assistant minister since September 2015. He was elevated to cabinet in May 2019 as Minister for Indigenous Australians in the Morrison Government.