Minister for Jobs and Tourism

The Minister for Jobs and Tourism is a minister in the Government of New South Wales with responsibilities for tourism in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Tourism has often been combined with other portfolio responsibilities, most commonly Sport.^[1]

Minister for Jobs and Tourism
Incumbent John Graham since 5 April 2023
Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport
Style	The Honourable
Nominator	Premier of New South Wales
Appointer	Governor of New South Wales
Inaugural holder	Clive Evatt (as Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities and Immigration)
Formation	9 May 1946

The Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities and Immigration was a ministry in the government of New South Wales, responsible for promoting New South Wales as a place to visit and encouraging migration through its offices in London, and for the management of government-owned resorts.^[2] It was created in 1946 and abolished in 1950.^[1]

Role and responsibilities

Hotel Kosciusko brochure

A government agency responsible for tourism and immigration was first created in 1905, the Intelligence Department, whose duties were "designed to make the attractions and possibilities of the State better known at home and a abroad, and to promote settlement on the land and to encourage immigration". It was renamed the Immigration and Tourist Bureau in 1908. In 1919 the bureau was divided into two separate agencies, with immigration becoming the responsibility of the Minister for Labour and Industry while the Tourist Bureau was the responsibility of the Chief Secretary. In 1938 Management of the Tourist Bureau was transferred to the Department of Railways.^[3] The responsibilities of the Tourist Bureau were managing the tourist resorts at Jenolan Caves, Jenolan Caves House, Abercrombie Caves, Yarrangobilly Caves, Wombeyan Caves and Hotel Kosciusko.^[a] The also conducted tours and published promotional material on NSW tourist attractions.^[6]

The elevation of tourist activities to a ministerial level was controversial. The Premier William McKell stated that there was a need for a Minister to devote himself to these matters and that "It is becoming increasingly, recognised, not only here but throughout the world, that we have much to offer the tourist, but to take full advantage of our opportunities we must take active steps to organise the trade and provide the facilities required".^[7] The Sydney Morning Herald criticised the unnecessary cost of the portfolio, stating there was no justification for the new office as immigration was a commonwealth matter and the political sphere was the worst way to develop tourist activities.^[8]

The portfolio was abolished in the third McGirr ministry, with a new portfolio of immigration, while tourism ceased to be represented at a ministerial level until the fourth Cahill ministry in 1959.^[1]

List of ministers

Jobs

Minister for Employment was a title which existed beside Industrial Relations in the Wran and Unsworth ministries. Employment continued at a portfolio as part of composite portfolios until the Third Fahey ministry in 1995 when it was merged into the Industrial relations portfolio.^[9][10]

The portfolio was responsible for developing and managing job creation programs, to advise the government on the employment impacts of its policies and to analyse the labour market with particular interest in the effects of structural change and constraints in employment growth. Employment had not previously been represented in a portfolio.

The following individuals have served as Minister where Employment was one of the responsibilities in the portfolio:

Title	Minister [10]	Party		Ministry	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
Minister for Employment	Laurie Brereton		Labor	Wran (6)	10 February 1984	5 April 1984	55 days	[11]
	Bob Debus			Wran (7) (8)	5 April 1984	4 July 1986	2 years, 90 days	[12]
Minister for Employment Minister for Industrial Relations	Pat Hills			Unsworth	4 July 1986	21 March 1988	1 year, 261 days	[13]
Minister for Industrial Relations and Employment	John Fahey		Liberal	Greiner (1)	25 March 1988	24 July 1990	2 years, 121 days	[14]
Minister for Further Education, Training and Employment Minister for Industrial Relations				Greiner (1) (2) Fahey (1)	24 July 1990	3 July 1992	1 year, 345 days
Minister for Employment and Training	Virginia Chadwick			Fahey (2)	3 July 1992	26 May 1993	327 days	[15]
Minister for Industrial Relations and Employment	Kerry Chikarovski			Fahey (3)	26 May 1993	4 April 1995	1 year, 313 days	[16]
Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney	Stuart Ayres		Liberal	Berejiklian	2 April 2019	21 December 2021	2 years, 263 days	[17]
Minister for Jobs and Tourism	John Graham		Labor	Minns	6 April 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 229 days	[18]

Tourism

The following individuals have served as minister where tourism was one of the responsibilities in the portfolio:

Title	Minister [1]	Party		Ministry	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities and Immigration	Clive Evatt		Labor	McKell (2)	9 May 1946	6 February 1947	273 days	[19]
	Frank Finnan			McGirr (1) (2)	6 February 1947	9 March 1948	1 year, 32 days	[20]
	Claude Matthews			McGirr (2)	9 March 1948	21 September 1949	1 year, 196 days	[21]
	Joshua Arthur				21 September 1949	30 June 1950	282 days	[22]
Minister for Tourist Activities	Gus Kelly		Labor	Cahill (4) Heffron (1) (2) Renshaw	1 April 1959	13 May 1965	6 years, 42 days	[23]
	Eric Willis		Liberal	Askin (1)	13 May 1965	5 March 1968	7 years, 37 days	[24]
Minister for Tourism				Askin (2) (3) (4)	5 March 1968	11 March 1971
Minister for Tourism and Sport				Askin (4)	11 March 1971	19 June 1972
Minister for Tourism	Tom Lewis			Askin (4) (5) (6)	19 June 1972	3 January 1975	2 years, 198 days	[25]
	Charles Cutler		National	Lewis (1)	3 January 1975	16 December 1975	347 days	[26]
	Tim Bruxner			Lewis (2)	17 December 1975	23 January 1976	37 days	[27]
	David Arblaster [b]		Liberal	Willis	23 January 1976	14 May 1976	112 days	[28]
	Ken Booth [b]		Labor	Wran (1) (2) (3)	14 May 1976	2 October 1981	5 years, 141 days	[29]
	Michael Cleary [b]			Wran (4)	2 October 1981	26 May 1982	6 years, 175 days	[30]
Minister for Leisure, Sport and Tourism				Wran (4) (5)	26 May 1982	10 February 1984
Minister for Tourism				Wran (6) (7) (8) Unsworth	10 February 1984	25 March 1988
	Garry West		National	Greiner (1)	25 March 1988	6 June 1991	3 years, 73 days	[31]
	Michael Yabsley		Liberal	Greiner (2)	6 June 1991	24 June 1992	1 year, 18 days	[32]
	Robert Webster		National	Fahey (1)	24 June 1992	3 July 1992	9 days	[33]
	Bruce Baird		Liberal	Fahey (2)	3 July 1992	26 May 1993	327 days	[34]
	Virginia Chadwick			Fahey (3)	26 May 1993	4 April 1995	1 year, 313 days	[35]
	Brian Langton		Labor	Carr (1)	4 April 1995	1 December 1997	2 years, 241 days	[36]
	Bob Debus			Carr (2)	1 December 1997	8 April 1999	1 year, 128 days	[37]
	Sandra Nori			Carr (3)	8 April 1999	2 April 2003	7 years, 359 days	[38]
Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation				Carr (4) Iemma (1)	2 April 2003	2 April 2007
Minister for Tourism	Matt Brown			Iemma (2)	2 April 2007	5 September 2008	1 year, 156 days	[39]
	Jodi McKay			Rees Keneally	8 September 2008	28 March 2011	2 years, 201 days	[40]
Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Hospitality and Racing	George Souris		National	O'Farrell	4 April 2011	23 April 2014	3 years, 19 days	[41]
Minister for Tourism and Major Events	Andrew Stoner			Baird (1)	23 April 2014	17 October 2014	177 days	[42]
	Troy Grant				17 October 2014	2 April 2015	167 days	[43]
Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events	Stuart Ayres [b]		Liberal	Baird (2)	2 April 2015	30 January 2017	1 year, 303 days	[44][45]
Minister for Tourism and Major Events	Adam Marshall		National	Berejiklian (1)	30 January 2017	23 March 2019	2 years, 52 days	[46]
Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney	Stuart Ayres		Liberal	Berejiklian (2) Perrottet (1)	2 April 2019	21 December 2021	3 years, 123 days	[44][47]
Minister for Tourism and Sport				Perrottet (2)	21 December 2021	3 August 2022		[44][48]
Minister for Tourism	Ben Franklin		National		5 August 2022	28 March 2023	235 days	[49]
Minister for the Arts	John Graham		Labor	Minns	28 March 2023	6 April 2023	1 year, 238 days	[18]
Minister for Jobs and Tourism					6 April 2023	incumbent

Former ministerial titles

Major events

The Minister for Major Events was a ministry first established in 2010 in the Keneally ministry and combined with Tourism and Gaming and Racing in the O'Farrell ministry. Major Events was abolished as a portfolio title in the second Berejiklian ministry.^[1]

The first minister with specific responsibility for a major event was Michael Knight as the Minister for Olympics, following the success of the Sydney bid to host the 2000 Summer Olympics. The minister concurrently held the portfolios of Public Works and Services and Roads and was closely linked to the provisions of buildings and infrastructure for the event.^[50]

The portfolio of Major Events was not responsible for a department, nor any legislation, with the Major Events Act 2009 remaining the responsibility of the Premier.^[51] The first minister, Ian Macdonald, also held the portfolios of State and Regional Development, Mineral and Forest Resources, and Central Coast.^[1] In 2011 the portfolio was absorbed by the new portfolio of Tourism, Major Events, Hospitality and Racing and remained a named part of portfolios until 2019 when it became part of the portfolio of Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney.^[52]

The following individuals have served as minister before major events was combined with tourism:

Title	Minister [1]	Party		Ministry	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
Minister for the Olympics	Michael Knight		Labor	Carr (1)	4 April 1995	12 January 2001	5 years, 283 days
Minister for Major Events	Ian Macdonald		Labor	Keneally	11 March 2010	5 June 2010	86 days
	Kevin Greene				5 June 2010	28 March 2011	296 days
Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Hospitality and Racing	George Souris		National	O'Farrell	4 April 2011	23 April 2014	3 years, 19 days	[53]
Minister for Tourism and Major Events	Andrew Stoner			Baird (1)	23 April 2014	17 October 2014	177 days	[54]
	Troy Grant				17 October 2014	2 April 2015	167 days	[55]
Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events	Stuart Ayres [b]		Liberal	Baird (2)	2 April 2015	30 January 2017	1 year, 303 days	[44][45]
Minister for Tourism and Major Events	Adam Marshall		National	Berejiklian (1)	30 January 2017	23 March 2019	2 years, 52 days	[56]

Assistant ministers

Title	Minister [10]	Party		Ministry	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
Assistant Minister for Tourism and Major Events	Katrina Hodgkinson		National	O'Farrell	23 April 2014	17 October 2014	177 days
Minister for Regional Tourism	John Barilaro			Baird (1)	17 October 2014	2 April 2015	167 days	[57]

This section is an excerpt from Minister for Regional New South Wales § Regional tourism.[edit]

See also

• New South Wales portal
• Politics portal

• List of New South Wales government agencies

Notes

1. The Hotel Kosciusko was opened in 1909 and burnt down in 1951. All that remains is the staff quarters which is now Sponars Chalet, near Smiggin Holes.^[4][5].
2. Concurrently Minister for Sport.

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