The Minister for Mental Health is a minister in the New South Wales Government with responsibility for hospitals and health services in regional New South Wales, Australia.
Minister for Mental Health | |
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Ministry of Health | |
Style | The Honourable |
Appointer | Governor of New South Wales |
Inaugural holder | Cherie Burton (as Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Mental Health)) |
Formation | 10 August 2005 |
It was first established in 2005 in the First Iemma ministry as an assistant minister,[1] before becoming a separate portfolio in 2011 in the O'Farrell ministry. The portfolio was not tasked with the management of a department.[2]
The current minister is Rose Jackson since April 2023.[3] Together with the Minister for Health, Minister for Regional Health and Minister for Medical Research, they administer the health portfolio through the Health cluster, including the Ministry of Health and a range of other government agencies, including local health districts and the NSW Ambulance service.[4]
List of ministers
editTitle | Minister[3] | Party | Ministry | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes | |
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Minister for Mental Health | Kevin Humphries | National | O'Farrell | 4 April 2011 | 17 April 2014 | 3 years, 13 days | [5] | |
Jai Rowell | Liberal | Baird (1) | 17 April 2014 | 2 April 2015 | 350 days | [6] | ||
Pru Goward | Baird (2) | 2 April 2015 | 23 January 2017 | 1 year, 296 days | [7] | |||
Tanya Davies | Berejiklian (1) | 30 January 2017 | 23 March 2019 | 2 years, 52 days | [8] | |||
Minister for Mental Health, Regional Youth and Women | Bronnie Taylor | National | Berejiklian (2) Perrottet (1) |
2 April 2019 | 21 December 2021 | 3 years, 360 days | [9] | |
Minister for Mental Health | Perrottet (2) | 21 December 2021 | 28 March 2023 | [10] | ||||
Ryan Park | Labor | Minns | 28 March 2023 | 5 April 2023 | 8 days | |||
Rose Jackson | 5 April 2023 | incumbent | 1 year, 98 days |
Assistant ministers
editTitle | Minister[3] | Party | Ministry | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes | |
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Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Mental Health) | Cherie Burton | Labor | Iemma (1) | 10 August 2005 | 2 April 2007 | 1 year, 235 days | [11] | |
Paul Lynch | Iemma (2) | 2 April 2007 | 5 September 2008 | 1 year, 156 days | [12] | |||
Barbara Perry | Rees | 8 September 2008 | 14 September 2009 | 2 years, 201 days | [13] | |||
Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Mental Health and Cancer) | 14 September 2009 | 8 December 2009 | ||||||
Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Mental Health) | Keneally | 8 December 2009 | 28 March 2011 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "PFO-298 Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Mental Health) [I]". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 24 March 2022. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ "PFO-341 Mental Health [I]". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 10 April 2022. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ a b c "Part 6 Ministries since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ "Administrative Arrangements (Second Perrottet Ministry—Allocation of Acts and Agencies) Order 2021". Legislation NSW. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- ^ "The Hon. Kevin John Humphries (1960 - )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ "Mr Jai Traver Rowell MP (1977 - )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "The Hon. (Pru) Prudence Jane Goward". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ "Refreshed NSW cabinet sworn in". Sky News. Australia. AAP. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Ms Cherie Ann Burton". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr Paul Gerard Lynch, MP". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
- ^ "The Hon. Barbara Mazzel Perry (1964- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019.