{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2016}} The '''First Mitchell Ministry''' was the 15th Ministry of the Government of Western Australia and was led by Nationalist Premier James Mitchell. It succeeded the Colebatch Ministry on 17 May 1919 after the collapse of Hal Colebatch's brief service as Premier. It assumed a stability which had been absent from Western Australian politics since the 1914 election. The ministry was followed by the Collier Ministry on 15 April 1924 after the Nationalist coalition lost government at the state election held on 22 March.
==First Ministry== The following ministers served until the reconstitution of the Ministry on 12 April 1921, following the 1921 state election:
{| |- | align=center width=70% | {| class="wikitable" |- ! Office ! Minister |- | Premier<br/> Colonial Treasurer<br/> Minister for Lands<br/> Minister for Repatriation | style="background:#CCDDFF" | Sir James Mitchell, MLA |- | Minister for Agriculture<br/> Minister for Public Health<br/> Minister for Education<br/> Minister for the North-West<br/> | style="background:#CCDDFF" | Hal Colebatch, MLC |- | Attorney-General<br/> | style="background:#CCDDFF" | Thomas Draper, MLA |- | Minister for Works<br/> Minister for Water Supply<br/> | style="background:#CCDDFF" | William George, MLA |- | Colonial Secretary (until 25 June 1919)<br/> Minister for Railways
(from 25 June 1919:) : Minister for Mines : Minister for Forests : Minister for Police : Minister for Industries | style="background:#CCFFCC" | John Scaddan, MLA |- | Colonial Secretary (from 25 June 1919)<br/> | style="background:#CCFFCC" | Frank Broun, MLA |- | Minister for Mines<br/> Minister for Industries<br/> Minister for Forests | style="background:#CCDDFF" | Robert Robinson, MLA<br/>(until 21 June 1919) |- | rowspan=2 | Minister without portfolio | style="background:#CCFFCC" | Francis Willmott, MLA |- | style="background:#CCFFCC" | Charles Baxter, MLC |} | align=center width=30% |
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{| class="wikitable" | style="background:#CCDDFF" | Nationalist Party |- | style="background:#CCFFCC" | Country Party |} |}
==Second Ministry== The following ministers served from their appointment on 12 April 1921 until the end of the Ministry on 15 April 1924, following the 1924 state election:
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Office ! Minister |- | Premier<br/> Colonial Treasurer<br/> Minister for Lands<br/> Minister for Repatriation | style="background:#CCDDFF" | Sir James Mitchell, MLA |- | Minister for Education<br/> Minister for the North-West<br/> Minister for Justice<br/> | style="background:#CCDDFF" | Hal Colebatch, MLC<br/>(until 17 June 1923) |- | Minister for Education<br/> Minister for the North-West<br/> Minister for Justice<br/> | style="background:#CCDDFF" | John Ewing, MLC<br/>(from 18 June 1923) |- | Minister for Works<br/> Minister for Water Supply<br/> | style="background:#CCDDFF" | William George, MLA |- | Minister for Railways<br/> Minister for Mines<br/> Minister for Forests<br/> Minister for Police<br/> Minister for Industries<br/> | style="background:#CCFFCC" | John Scaddan, MLA |- | Colonial Secretary<br/> Minister for Public Health<br/> | style="background:#CCFFCC" | Frank Broun, MLA<br/>(until 22 August 1922) |- | Colonial Secretary<br/> Minister for Public Health<br/> | style="background:#CCFFCC" | Richard Sampson, MLA<br/>(from 22 August 1922) |- | Minister for Agriculture<br/> | style="background:#CCFFCC" | Henry Kennedy Maley, MLA |}
==References== *{{Black and Bolton Biographical Register|volume=One}} *{{cite book|author=Black, David|chapter=Factionalism and Stability: 1911-1947|year=1991|title=The House on the Hill: A History of the Parliament of Western Australia 1832–1990|editor=Black, David|editor-link=David Black (historian)|location=Perth, Western Australia|publisher=Parliament of Western Australia|isbn=0-7309-3983-9}} * {{cite book|last=Bolton|first=Geoffrey|author-link=Geoffrey Bolton|author2=Mozley, Ann|title=The Western Australian Legislature, 1870-1930|publisher=Australian National University|location=Canberra|year=1961}} (no ISBN)
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