Insignia: | Coat of Arms of New South Wales.svg |
Department: | Premier's Department |
Post: | Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology |
Incumbent: | Anoulack Chanthivong |
Incumbentsince: | 5 April 2023 |
Style: | The Honourable |
Appointer: | Governor of New South Wales |
Inaugural: | Charles Cutler (as Minister for Science) |
Formation: | 13 May 1965 |
The Innovation, Science and Technology is a minister in the New South Wales Government and has responsibilities that includes all schools and institutes of higher education in New South Wales, Australia.
The ministers manages the portfolio through the Premier's Department.[1] Ultimately, the ministers are responsible to the Parliament of New South Wales.
There have previously been ministers responsible for Science, Innovation and Technology; however the combined ministry was first created in December 2021 in the second Perrottet ministry.
The following individuals have served as the Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology, or any precedent titles:
Title | Minister | Party | Ministry | data-sort-type="date" | Term start ! | data-sort-type=date | Term end ! | Time in office | Notes | ||||
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Minister for Science | width=8% | align=center | 13 May 1965 | align=center | 19 June 1972 | align=right | [2] | ||||||
Minister for Technology | align=center | 19 October 1978 | align=center | 29 February 1980 | align=right | [3] | |||||||
29 February 1980 | 2 October 1981 | align=right | [4] | ||||||||||
align=center | 2 October 1981 | align=center | 10 February 1984 | align=right | |||||||||
Minister for Small Business and Technology | align=center | 10 February 1984 | align=center | 5 April 1984 | align=right | [5] | |||||||
align=center | 5 April 1984 | align=center | 31 December 1985 | align=right | [6] | ||||||||
align=center | 1 January 1986 | align=center | 6 February 1986 | align=right | [7] | ||||||||
Minister for Energy and Technology | align=center | 6 February 1986 | align=center | 26 November 1987 | align=right | [8] | |||||||
Minister for Information Technology | align=center | 1 December 1997 | align=center | 2 April 2003 | align=right | [9] | |||||||
Minister for Science and Medical Research | align=center | 2 April 2003 | align=center | 2 April 2007 | align=right | [10] | |||||||
align=center | 2 April 2007 | align=center | 5 September 2008 | align=right | [11] | ||||||||
align=center | 8 September 2008 | align=center | 4 November 2008 | align=right | [12] | ||||||||
align=center | 4 November 2008 | align=center | 28 March 2011 | align=right | [13] | ||||||||
Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation | align=center | 2 April 2015 | align=center | 30 January 2017 | align=right | [14] | |||||||
align=center | 30 January 2017 | align=center | 23 March 2019 | align=right | [15] | ||||||||
Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation | align=center | 2 April 2019 | align=center | 21 December 2021 | align=right | [16] | |||||||
Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology | width=8% | 21 December 2021 | 28 March 2023 | align=right | |||||||||
Minister for Transport | width=8% rowspan=2 | 28 March 2023 | 5 April 2023 | align=right | |||||||||
Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology | 5 April 2023 | incumbent | align=right |