The Third Hughes ministry (Nationalist Party (Australia), Nationalist) was the 13th List of Australian ministries, ministry of the Australian Government, Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 7th Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister, Billy Hughes. The Third Hughes ministry succeeded the Second Hughes ministry, which dissolved on 17 February 1917 after the governing National Labor Party merged with the Liberal Party (Australia, 1909), Liberal Party to form the Nationalist Party. The National Labor Party itself formed as a consequence of the Australian Labor Party split of 1916, split that took place within the then-governing Australian Labor Party, Labor Party over the issue of World War I conscription in Australia, conscription. The ministry was replaced by the Fourth Hughes ministry 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 1917 Australian conscription referendum, failed second referendum on conscription. However, due to a lack of alternative leaders, Hughes was immediately re-commissioned as Prime Minister by Governor-General of Australia, Governor-General Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson. Billy Hughes, who died in 1952, was the last surviving member of the Third Hughes ministry; Hughes was also the last surviving member of the Watson ministry, First Fisher ministry, Third Fisher ministry and Second Hughes ministry.

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