The Minister for Cities in the Government of Australia is a position which is currently held by Jenny McAllister since July 2024 in the Albanese ministry.[1]
| Minister for Cities | |
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| Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts | |
| Style | The Honourable |
| Appointer | Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Australia |
| Inaugural holder | Tom Uren (as Minister for Urban and Regional Development) |
| Formation | 19 December 1972 |
| Website | minister |
List of ministers for cities
editThe following individuals have served as the Minister for Cities, or any other precedent titles:[2][3] The Minister for Sustainable Population was a ministerial portfolio administered through the Department of the Treasury responsible for "planning properly for the infrastructure needs, for the housing needs, for the transport needs, for the regional needs" of the Australian population of the future.[4] Originally entitled the Minister for Population by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, his successor, Julia Gillard, renamed the portfolio to the Minister for Sustainable Population to reflect her policy changes on the matter of population growth and the need for a sustainable future for Australia, saying the change sends a clear message about the new direction the Government is taking.[5] After the 2010 federal election, the portfolio was subsumed by the Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities portfolio.[6]
| Order | Minister | Party | Prime Minister | Title | Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
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| 1 | Tom Uren | Labor | Whitlam | Minister for Urban and Regional Development | 19 December 1972 | 11 November 1975 | 2 years, 327 days | |
| 2 | John Carrick | Liberal | Fraser | 11 November 1975 | 22 December 1975 | 41 days | ||
| 3 | Ivor Greenwood | Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development | 22 December 1975 | 8 July 1976 | 199 days | |||
| 4 | Kevin Newman | 8 July 1976 | 20 December 1977 | 1 year, 165 days | ||||
| 5 | Ray Groom | 20 December 1977 | 5 December 1978 | 350 days | ||||
| 6 | Tony Burke | Labor | Rudd | Minister for Population | 14 April 2010 | 28 June 2010 | 3 years, 78 days | |
| Gillard | Minister for Sustainable Population | 28 June 2010 | 14 September 2010 | |||||
| Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities | 14 September 2010 | 1 July 2013 | ||||||
| 7 | Jamie Briggs | Liberal | Abbott | Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development | 18 September 2013 | 15 September 2015 | 2 years, 102 days | |
| Turnbull | 15 September 2015 | 21 September 2015 | ||||||
| Minister for Cities and the Built Environment | 21 September 2015 | 29 December 2015 | ||||||
| 8 | Paul Fletcher | Liberal | Turnbull | Minister for Urban Infrastructure | 19 July 2016 | 20 December 2017 | 2 years, 39 days | |
| Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities | 20 December 2017 | 28 August 2018 | ||||||
| 9 | Alan Tudge | Morrison | Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population | 28 August 2018 | 29 May 2019 | 2 years, 116 days | ||
| Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure | 29 May 2019 | 22 December 2020 | ||||||
| (8) | Paul Fletcher | Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts | 22 December 2020 | 23 May 2022 | 1 year, 152 days | |||
| 10 | Jenny McAllister | Labor | Albanese | Minister for Cities | 29 July 2024 | Incumbent | 147 days | |
References
edit- ^ Albanese, Anthony. "Ministerial arrangements". www.pm.gov.au. Australian Government. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "Ministries and Cabinets". 43rd Parliamentary Handbook: Historical information on the Australian Parliament. Parliament of Australia. 2010. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ^ "Ministerial Swearing-in Ceremony". Events. Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. 18 February 2016. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ^ "Burke takes on population portfolio". ABC News. Australia. 3 April 2010.
- ^ "Gillard puts brakes on 'big Australia'". ABC News. Australia. 27 June 2010. Retrieved 27 June 2010.
- ^ "Second Gillard Ministry" (PDF). The Australian. 14 September 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2010.