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Minister for Youth (New South Wales)

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Minister for Youth
Incumbent
Rose Jackson
since 5 April 2023
Department of Communities and Justice
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
StyleThe Honourable
AppointerGovernor of New South Wales
Inaugural holderFrank Hawkins
(as Minister for Child Welfare)
Formation15 March 1956

The Minister for Youth is a minister in the New South Wales Government with responsibility for providing a whole-of-government approach to youth issues in New South Wales, Australia. The current minister is Rose Jackson.

It was first established in 1956 as the Minister for Child Welfare in the third ministry of Joe Cahill, with the principal responsibility being the care of neglected, orphaned and delinquent children through the Child welfare department. The department had existed since 1881 initially under the Colonial Secretary. The portfolio was held in conjunction with that of Social Welfare until 1973 when they were combined as the portfolio of Youth and Community Services.[1] Youth Affairs were part of the responsibilities of the Minister for Education from 1988 until 1995 when a separate portfolio was re-created as the Minister Assisting the Premier on Youth Affairs. The youth portfolio was abolished in 2011. A new portfolio of regional youth was established in 2019.[2]

List of ministers

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The following individuals have been appointed Minister for Youth or any precedent titles:

Title Minister[2] Party Ministry Term start Term end Time in office Notes
Minister for Child Welfare
Minister for Social Welfare
Frank Hawkins   Labor Cahill (3) (4)
Heffron (1) (2)
Renshaw
15 March 1956 13 May 1965 9 years, 59 days
Arthur Bridges   Liberal Askin (1) 13 May 1965 22 May 1968 3 years, 9 days
Harry Jago Askin (2) 23 May 1968 3 September 1968 103 days
Frederick Hewitt Askin (2) (3) 3 September 1968 11 March 1971 2 years, 189 days
John Lloyd Waddy Askin (4) 11 March 1971 17 January 1973 1 year, 312 days
Minister for Youth and Community Services Askin (5) 17 January 1973 3 December 1973 320 days
Dick Healey Askin (6) 3 December 1973 3 January 1975 1 year, 31 days
Minister for Youth, Ethnic and Community Affairs Steve Mauger Lewis (1) (2) 3 January 1975 23 January 1976 1 year, 20 days
Jim Clough Willis 23 January 1976 14 May 1976 112 days
Minister for Youth and Community Services Rex Jackson   Labor Wran (1) (2) (3) 14 May 1976 2 October 1981 5 years, 141 days
Kevin Stewart Wran (4) 2 October 1981 1 February 1983 1 year, 122 days
Frank Walker Wran (5) (6) (7) 1 February 1983 6 February 1986 3 years, 5 days
Peter Anderson Wran (8) 6 February 1986 4 July 1986 148 days
John Aquilina Unsworth 4 July 1986 25 March 1988 1 year, 265 days
Minister for Education and Youth Affairs Terry Metherell   Liberal Greiner (1) 25 March 1988 20 July 1990 2 years, 117 days
Minister for School Education and Youth Affairs Virginia Chadwick Greiner (1) (2)
Fahey (1) (2)
24 July 1990 26 May 1993 2 years, 306 days
Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs Fahey (3) 26 May 1993 4 April 1995 1 year, 313 days
Minister Assisting the Premier on Youth Affairs John Aquilina   Labor Carr (1) (2) 26 July 1995 8 April 1999 3 years, 256 days
Carmel Tebbutt Carr (3) 8 April 1999 2 April 2003 3 years, 359 days
Minister for Youth Carr (4) 2 April 2003 21 January 2005 1 year, 294 days
Reba Meagher Iemma (1) 21 January 2005 2 April 2007 2 years, 71 days
Linda Burney Iemma (2) 2 April 2007 8 September 2008 1 year, 159 days
Graham West Rees 8 September 2008 8 December 2009 1 year, 91 days
Peter Primrose Keneally 8 December 2009 28 March 2011 1 year, 110 days
Minister for Mental Health, Regional Youth and Women Bronnie Taylor   National Berejiklian (2)
Perrottet (1)
2 April 2019 21 December 2021 2 years, 263 days [3]
Minister for Regional Youth Ben Franklin Perrottet (2) 21 December 2021 28 March 2023 1 year, 97 days [4]
Minister for Education and Early Learning Prue Car   Labor Minns 28 March 2023 5 April 2023 8 days
Minister for Youth Rose Jackson 5 April 2023 incumbent 1 year, 242 days

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "PFO-74 Child Welfare". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 4 March 2022.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  2. ^ a b "Part 6 Ministries since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Government Notices (30)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 2 April 2019. p. 1088-1090. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Parliament, Ministerial, Courts and Police (662)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 21 December 2021.