Minister for Energy (New South Wales)
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| Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water | |
| Style | The Honourable |
| Appointer | Governor of New South Wales |
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The New South Wales Minister for Energy is a minister in the New South Wales Government with responsibilities for matters relating to resources, energy, and utilities.[1][2] The minister manages the portfolio through the Planning and Environment cluster.[3]
Ultimately the ministers are responsible to the Parliament of New South Wales.
List of ministers
[edit]Energy
[edit]The following individuals have served as the Minister for Energy, or any precedent titles:
| Ministerial title | Minister [1] | Party | Ministry | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minister for Power | Wal Fife | Liberal | Askin (4) (5) (6) | 19 June 1972 | 3 January 1975 | 2 years, 198 days | ||
| Minister for Energy | George Freudenstein | Country | Lewis (1) (2) Willis |
3 January 1975 | 14 May 1976 | 1 year, 132 days | ||
| Pat Hills | Labor | Wran (1) (2) (3) | 14 May 1976 | 2 October 1981 | 5 years, 141 days | |||
| Paul Landa | Wran (4) | 2 October 1981 | 1 February 1983 | 1 year, 122 days | ||||
| Terry Sheahan | Wran (5) | 1 February 1983 | 10 February 1984 | 1 year, 9 days | ||||
| Rodney Cavalier | Wran (6) | 10 February 1984 | 5 April 1984 | 55 days | ||||
| Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy | Peter Cox | Wran (7) | 5 April 1984 | 6 February 1986 | 3 years, 235 days | |||
| Minister for Energy and Technology | Wran (8) Unsworth |
6 February 1986 | 26 November 1987 | |||||
| Minister for Minerals and Energy | Ken Gabb | Unsworth | 26 November 1987 | 21 March 1988 | 116 days | |||
| Minister for Energy | Neil Pickard | Liberal | Greiner (1) | 25 March 1988 | 19 October 1988 | 3 years, 73 days | ||
| Minister for Minerals and Energy | 19 October 1988 | 6 June 1991 | ||||||
| Minister for Energy | Robert Webster | National | Greiner (2) Fahey (1) |
6 June 1991 | 3 July 1992 | 1 year, 27 days | ||
| Garry West | Fahey (2) (3) | 3 July 1992 | 27 June 1994 | 1 year, 359 days | ||||
| Ted Pickering | Liberal | Fahey (3) | 27 June 1994 | 4 April 1995 | 281 days | |||
| Michael Egan | Labor | Carr (1) | 4 April 1995 | 1 December 1997 | 2 years, 241 days | |||
| Bob Debus | Carr (2) | 1 December 1997 | 8 April 1999 | 1 year, 128 days | ||||
| Kim Yeadon | Carr (3) | 8 April 1999 | 2 April 2003 | 3 years, 359 days | ||||
| Minister for Energy and Utilities | Frank Sartor | Carr (4) | 2 April 2003 | 3 August 2005 | 2 years, 123 days | |||
| Minister for Utilities | Carl Scully | Iemma (1) | 3 August 2005 | 17 February 2006 | 198 days | |||
| Minister for Energy | Joe Tripodi | 17 February 2006 | 2 April 2007 | 1 year, 44 days | ||||
| Ian Macdonald | Iemma (2) Rees |
2 April 2007 | 14 September 2009 | 2 years, 165 days | ||||
| John Robertson | Rees Keneally |
14 September 2009 | 21 May 2010 | 249 days | ||||
| Paul Lynch | Keneally | 21 May 2010 | 28 March 2011 | 311 days | ||||
| Minister for Resources and Energy | Chris Hartcher | Liberal | O'Farrell | 3 April 2011 | 4 December 2013 | 2 years, 245 days | ||
| Anthony Roberts | O'Farrell Baird (1) |
4 December 2013 | 2 April 2015 | 3 years, 57 days | ||||
| Minister for Industry, Resources and Energy | Baird (2) | 2 April 2015 | 30 January 2017 | |||||
| Minister for Energy and Utilities | Don Harwin | Berejiklian (1) | 30 January 2017 | 23 March 2019 | 2 years, 52 days | |||
| Minister for Energy and Environment | Matt Kean | Berejiklian (2) Perrottet (1) |
2 April 2019 | 21 December 2021 | 3 years, 360 days | |||
| Minister for Energy | Perrottet (2) | 21 December 2021 | 28 March 2023 | |||||
| Minister for the Environment | Penny Sharpe | Labor | Minns | 28 March 2023 | 5 April 2023 | 1 year, 274 days | ||
| Minister for Energy | 5 April 2023 | incumbent | ||||||
Former ministerial titles
[edit]Mines or Resources
[edit]| Title | Minister [1] | Party | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secretary for Lands and Secretary for Mines | James Farnell | No party | 9 May 1874 | 26 July 1874 | 78 days | ||
| Secretary for Mines | Robert Abbott | 27 July 1874 | 8 February 1875 | 196 days | |||
| John Lucas | 9 February 1875 | 5 February 1877 | 1 year, 362 days | ||||
| George Lloyd | 6 February 1877 | 16 August 1877 | 191 days | ||||
| Ezekiel Baker | 17 August 1877 | 19 November 1877 | 94 days | ||||
| Archibald Jacob | 20 November 1877 | 17 December 1877 | 27 days | ||||
| William Suttor Jr. | 18 December 1877 | 20 December 1878 | 1 year, 2 days | ||||
| Ezekiel Baker | 21 December 1878 | 11 October 1881 | 2 years, 294 days | ||||
| Arthur Renwick | 12 October 1881 | 4 January 1883 | 1 year, 84 days | ||||
| Joseph Abbott | 5 January 1883 | 6 October 1885 | 2 years, 274 days | ||||
| Francis Wright | 7 October 1885 | 17 October 1885 | 10 days | ||||
| George Thornton | 13 November 1885 | 21 December 1885 | 38 days | ||||
| Robert Vaughn | 22 December 1885 | 25 February 1886 | 65 days | ||||
| James Fletcher | 26 February 1886 | 23 December 1886 | 300 days | ||||
| Charles Mackellar | 24 December 1886 | 19 January 1887 | 26 days | ||||
| Francis Abigail | Free Trade | 20 January 1887 | 16 January 1889 | 1 year, 362 days | |||
| John Chanter | Protectionist | 17 January 1889 | 7 March 1889 | 49 days | |||
| Sydney Smith | Free Trade | 8 March 1889 | 27 February 1890 | 2 years, 228 days | |||
| Secretary for Mines and Agriculture | 28 February 1890 | 22 October 1891 | [4] | ||||
| Thomas Slattery | Protectionist | 23 October 1891 | 2 August 1894 | 2 years, 283 days | |||
| Sydney Smith | Free Trade | 3 August 1894 | 15 August 1898 | 4 years, 12 days | |||
| Joseph Cook | 27 August 1898 | 13 September 1899 | 1 year, 17 days | ||||
| John Fegan | Protectionist | 15 September 1899 | 8 April 1901 | 1 year, 205 days | |||
| John Kidd | Progressive | 10 April 1901 | 29 August 1904 | 3 years, 141 days | |||
| Samuel Moore | Liberal Reform | 29 August 1904 | 1 October 1907 | 3 years, 33 days | |||
| John Perry | 2 October 1907 | 21 January 1908 | 111 days | ||||
| Secretary for Mines | William Wood | 22 January 1908 | 20 October 1910 | 2 years, 271 days | |||
| Alfred Edden | Labor | 21 October 1910 | 29 January 1914 | 3 years, 100 days | |||
| John Cann | 29 January 1914 | 15 March 1915 | 1 year, 45 days | ||||
| John Estell | 15 March 1915 | 31 October 1916 | 1 year, 230 days | ||||
| Henry Hoyle | 31 October 1916 | 15 November 1916 | 15 days | ||||
| John Fitzpatrick | Nationalist | 15 November 1916 | 12 April 1920 | 3 years, 149 days | |||
| George Cann | Labor | 12 April 1920 | 20 December 1921 | 1 year, 252 days | |||
| John Fitzpatrick | Nationalist | 20 December 1921 | 20 December 1921 | 7 hours | |||
| George Cann | Labor | 20 December 1921 | 13 April 1922 | 113 days | |||
| John Fitzpatrick | Nationalist | 13 April 1922 | 17 June 1925 | 3 years, 65 days | |||
| Jack Baddeley | Labor | 17 June 1925 | 18 October 1927 | 2 years, 123 days | |||
| Frank Chaffey | Nationalist | 18 October 1927 | 15 April 1929 | 1 year, 179 days | |||
| Reginald Weaver | 16 April 1929 | 3 November 1930 | 1 year, 202 days | ||||
| Jack Baddeley | Labor | 4 November 1930 | 15 October 1931 | 1 year, 191 days | |||
| Labor (NSW) | 15 October 1931 | 13 May 1932 | |||||
| Frank Chaffey | United Australia | 16 May 1932 | 17 June 1932 | 32 days | |||
| Roy Vincent | Country | 18 June 1932 | 16 May 1941 | 8 years, 332 days | |||
| Jack Baddeley | Labor | 16 May 1941 | 8 September 1949 | 8 years, 115 days | |||
| James McGirr | 8 September 1949 | 21 September 1949 | 13 days | ||||
| William Dickson | 21 September 1949 | 30 June 1950 | 282 days | ||||
| Joshua Arthur | 30 June 1950 | 23 February 1953 | 2 years, 238 days | ||||
| Bob Heffron | 23 February 1953 | 16 September 1953 | 205 days | ||||
| Francis Buckley | 16 September 1953 | 30 June 1954 | 2 years, 88 days | ||||
| William Gollan | 1 July 1954 | 15 March 1956 | 1 year, 259 days | ||||
| Roger Nott | 15 March 1956 | 14 November 1957 | 1 year, 244 days | ||||
| Jim Simpson | 14 November 1957 | 1 April 1959 | 7 years, 180 days | ||||
| Minister for Mines | 1 April 1959 | 13 May 1965 | |||||
| Tom Lewis | Liberal | 13 May 1965 | 27 June 1967 | 2 years, 45 days | |||
| Wal Fife | 27 June 1967 | 3 January 1975 | 7 years, 190 days | ||||
| George Freudenstein | Country | 3 January 1975 | 14 May 1976 | 1 year, 131 days | |||
| Pat Hills | Labor | 14 May 1976 | 19 October 1978 | 2 years, 158 days | |||
| Minister for Mineral Resources and Development | Ron Mulock | 19 October 1978 | 29 February 1980 | 2 years, 348 days | |||
| Minister for Mineral Resources | 29 February 1980 | 2 October 1981 | |||||
| Neville Wran | 2 October 1981 | 1 February 1983 | 1 year, 122 days | ||||
| Kevin Stewart | 1 February 1983 | 10 February 1984 | 1 year, 9 days | ||||
| Don Day | 10 February 1984 | 5 April 1984 | 55 days | ||||
| Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy | Peter Cox | 5 April 1984 | 6 February 1986 | 1 year, 307 days | |||
| Minister for Mineral Resources | Ken Gabb | 4 July 1986 | 26 November 1987 | 2 years, 44 days | |||
| Minister for Minerals and Energy | 26 November 1987 | 21 March 1988 | |||||
| Minister for Mineral Resources | Neil Pickard | Liberal | 21 March 1988 | 19 October 1988 | 3 years, 73 days | ||
| Minister for Minerals and Energy | 19 October 1988 | 6 June 1991 | |||||
| Minister of Natural Resources | Ian Causley | National | 6 June 1991 | 26 May 1993 | 3 years, 306 days | ||
| Minister for Mines | 26 May 1993 | 4 April 1995 | |||||
| Minister for Mineral Resources | Bob Martin | Labor | 4 April 1995 | 8 April 1999 | 4 years, 4 days | ||
| Eddie Obeid | 8 April 1999 | 2 April 2003 | 3 years, 359 days | ||||
| Kerry Hickey | 2 April 2003 | 3 August 2005 | 2 years, 123 days | ||||
| Ian Macdonald | 3 August 2005 | 4 December 2009 | 4 years, 305 days | ||||
| Minister for Mineral and Forest Resources | 4 December 2009 | 4 June 2010 | |||||
| Paul McLeay | 4 June 2010 | 1 September 2010 | 89 days | ||||
| Steve Whan | 6 September 2010 | 28 March 2011 | 209 days | ||||
| Minister for Resources and Energy | Chris Hartcher | Liberal | 3 April 2011 | 4 December 2013 | 2 years, 245 days | ||
| Anthony Roberts | 4 December 2013 | 2 April 2015 | 3 years, 57 days | ||||
| Minister for Industry, Resources and Energy | 2 April 2015 | 30 January 2017 | |||||
| Minister for Resources | Don Harwin | 30 January 2017 | 2 April 2019 | 2 years, 62 days | |||
See also
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- List of New South Wales government agencies
- Minister for the Environment and Water (Australia)
- Minister for the Environment (Victoria)
- Minister for Environment (Western Australia)
- Minister for Environment and Natural Resources (Northern Territory)
- List of Australian Government entities
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Part 6 Ministries since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ "Government Notices (30)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 2 April 2019. p. 1088-1090. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ "Administrative Arrangements (Second Perrottet Ministry—Allocation of Acts and Agencies) Order 2021". 21 December 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ "Designation of Secretary for Mines". New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 116. 28 February 1890. p. 1783. Retrieved 27 June 2021 – via Trove.
