Minister for Hospitality and Racing
Minister for Hospitality and Racing | |
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Department of Enterprise, Investment and Trade | |
Style | The Honourable |
Nominator | Premier of New South Wales |
Appointer | Governor of New South Wales |
Inaugural holder | Michael Cleary (as Minister for Racing) |
Formation | 4 July 1986 |
The New South Wales Minister for Hospitality and Racing is a minister in the Government of New South Wales with responsibilities for the oversight of hospitality and for racing in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
The current Minister is Kevin Anderson, who also serves as the Minister for Lands and Water. The minister assists the Minister for Tourism and Sport, Stuart Ayres. Both ministers serve in the second Perrottet ministry, with effect from 21 December 2021.[1]
Role and responsibilities[]
Racing became a portfolio for the first time in the Unsworth ministry.[2] The minister was responsible for regulating bookmakers and the control of greyhound, trotting and horse racing, racecourse development and the management of the NSW Totalisator Agency Board.[3] With the establishment of the Sydney Harbour Casino in 1995, the portfolio included the Casino Control Board.[4] The portfolio was abolished in the Second Berejiklian ministry and responsibility shared by the Minister for Customer Service and the Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation, before being re-established in the second Perrottet ministry. In addition to racing and gambling, the minister is also responsible for registered clubs.[5]
List of ministers[]
The following individuals have served as Minister for Hospitality and Racing, or any precedent title:
Ministerial title | Minister [2] | Party | Ministry | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes | |
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Minister for Racing | Michael Cleary | Labor | Unsworth | 4 July 1986 | 21 March 1988 | 1 year, 261 days | ||
Minister for Sport, Recreation and Racing | Bob Rowland Smith | National | Greiner (1) | 25 March 1988 | 18 September 1989 | 3 years, 60 days | ||
Minister for Racing [a] | 18 September 1989 | 24 May 1991 | ||||||
Minister for Sport, Recreation and Racing | George Souris | Greiner (2) Fahey (1) |
6 June 1991 | 24 June 1992 | 1 year, 18 days | |||
Joe Schipp | Liberal | Fahey (2) | 3 July 1992 | 26 May 1993 | 327 days | |||
Christopher Downy | Fahey (3) | 26 May 1993 | 4 April 1995 | 1 year, 313 days | ||||
Minister for Gaming and Racing | Richard Face | Labor | Carr (1) (2) (3) | 4 April 1995 | 13 February 2003 | 7 years, 315 days | ||
Michael Egan | Carr (3) | 13 February 2003 | 2 April 2003 | 48 days | ||||
Grant McBride | Carr (4) Iemma (1) |
2 April 2003 | 2 April 2007 | 4 years, 0 days | ||||
Graham West | Iemma (2) | 2 April 2007 | 8 September 2008 | 1 year, 159 days | ||||
Kevin Greene | Rees Keneally |
8 September 2008 | 28 March 2011 | 2 years, 201 days | ||||
Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Hospitality and Racing | George Souris | National | O'Farrell | 4 April 2011 | 23 April 2014 | 3 years, 19 days | ||
Minister for Hospitality, Gaming and Racing | Troy Grant | Baird (1) | 23 April 2014 | 2 April 2015 | 2 years, 282 days | |||
Minister for Racing | Baird (2) | 2 April 2015 | 30 January 2017 | |||||
Paul Toole | Berejiklian (1) | 30 January 2017 | 23 March 2019 | 2 years, 52 days | ||||
Minister for Hospitality and Racing | Kevin Anderson | National | Perrottet (2) | 21 December 2021 | incumbent | 322 days | [1] |
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ The portfolio of Racing was separated from Sport and Recreation however Bob Rowland Smith retained responsibility for both portfolios.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Parliament, Ministerial, Courts and Police (662)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 21 December 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Part 6 Ministries since 1856 (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
- ^ "PFO-109 Racing [I]". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 7 March 2022. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ "PFO-110 Gaming and Racing". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 7 March 2022. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ "PFO-435 Hospitality and Racing". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 7 March 2022. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- Ministers of the New South Wales state government
- Horse racing in Australia
- Harness racing in Australia