Joseph Anstice Rafferty (10 January 1911 – 14 June 2000) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Launceston in Tasmania, the son of schoolteacher Col. R. A. Rafferty and Sarah Rose Anne Plummer.
He was educated locally at both state and private schools and entered the public service in 1930.
On 8 June 1940 he married Miriam Kathleen Richards, with whom he had two sons.
In 1976 he relinquished his previous portfolios to become Minister of Transport, a position he held until 1978.