The Fourth Hughes ministry (

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) was the 14th

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of the

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. It was led by the country's 7th

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. The Fourth Hughes ministry succeeded the

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, which dissolved on 8 January 1918 following the resignation of Hughes as Prime Minister after a vote of no-confidence within the Nationalist Party in the wake of a failed second referendum on conscription. However, due to a lack of alternative leaders, Hughes was immediately re-commissioned as Prime Minister by

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Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson. The ministry was replaced by the

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on 3 February 1920 following the 1919 federal election.

Walter Massy-Greene Sir Walter Massy-Greene KCMG (6 November 187416 November 1952) was an Australian politician and businessman. As a Liberal and Nationalist member of the House of Representatives, he became a protégé of Prime Minister Billy Hughes and was groo ...

, who died in 1952, was the last surviving member of the Fourth Hughes ministry.

Ministry

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