Minister for Aged Care and Seniors


The Minister for Aged Care and Seniors is a position in the Australian Government responsible for oversight of aged care in Australia alongside the Minister for Health and Ageing, who is the senior minister providing direction and oversight of the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. The incumbent Minister for Aged Care and Seniors is Labor MP Sam Rae, serving since 13 May 2025.

List of ministers for aged care

The following individuals have been appointed as the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors, or any of its precedent titles. Ministers for aged care or ageing were appointed from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1998 to 2013. The portfolio gained a mental health component in 2010. The latter returned to the health portfolio in 2013, with ageing moving to social services. The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, or any of its precedent titles: The Turnbull government transferred the aged care portfolio back to the Department of Health in October 2015. The position is a separate role that supplements the cabinet role of the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Between January 2017 and January 2025, it was an outer ministry role. The role was briefly made a Cabinet of Australia role in the first Albanese ministry from January to May 2025, before it returned to the outer ministry in May 2025 with the swearing-in of the second Albanese ministry.