Minister for Youth (New South Wales)

Minister for Youth
Minister for Youth
	Incumbent; Rose Jackson; since 5 April 2023
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Governor of New South Wales
Inaugural holder	Frank Hawkins; (as Minister for Child Welfare)
Formation	15 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

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

Title	Minister^[2]		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	John Lloyd Waddy		Askin (5)	17 January 1973	3 December 1973	320 days
Minister for Youth and Community Services	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
Minister for Youth, Ethnic and Community Affairs	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	Virginia Chadwick		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
Minister Assisting the Premier on Youth Affairs	Carmel Tebbutt		Carr (3)	8 April 1999	2 April 2003	3 years, 359 days
Minister for Youth	Carmel Tebbutt		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	National	Perrottet (2)	21 December 2021	28 March 2023	1 year, 97 days	^[4]
Minister for Youth	Rose Jackson	Labor	Minns	5 April 2023	incumbent	1 year, 218 days

References

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

[PFO-74-1] "PFO-74 Child Welfare". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 4 March 2022. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

[Ministries-2] "Part 6 Ministries since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

[gazette-20190402-3] "Government Notices (30)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 2 April 2019. p. 1088-1090. Retrieved 3 April 2019.

[gazette-2021-12-21-4] "Parliament, Ministerial, Courts and Police (662)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 21 December 2021.

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