|Treasurer of New South Wales|
|Appointer||Governor of New South Wales|
|Term length||At the Governor's pleasure|
|Inaugural holder||Thomas Holt (as Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales)|
|Formation||6 June 1856|
The Treasurer of New South Wales, known from 1856 to 1959 as the Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales, is the minister in the Government of New South Wales responsible for government expenditure and revenue raising and is the head of the New South Wales Treasury. The Treasurer plays a key role in the economic policy of the government. By convention, the Treasurer is usually a member of the NSW Parliament with a seat in the Legislative Assembly. The exception to this is Michael Egan, Michael Costa and Eric Roozendaal, who were members of the Legislative Council during their tenure as Treasurer.
A minister is a politician who heads a government department, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers. In some jurisdictions the head of government is also a minister and is designated the "prime minister", "premier", "chief minister", "Chancellor" or other title.
The Government of New South Wales, also referred to as the New South Wales Government or NSW Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of New South Wales. It is currently held by a coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party. The Government of New South Wales, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, was formed in 1856 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended from time to time. Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, New South Wales has been a state of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Constitution of Australia regulates its relationship with the Commonwealth. Under the Australian Constitution, New South Wales ceded legislative and judicial supremacy to the Commonwealth, but retained powers in all matters not in conflict with the Commonwealth.
The current Treasurer, since 30 January 2017, is Dominic Perrottet MP. The Treasurer is assisted in his portfolio by the Minister for Finance, Services and Property, currently Victor Dominello since 30 January 2017.
Dominic Francis Perrottet, an Australian politician, is the New South Wales Treasurer and the Minister for Industrial Relations since January 2017 in the Berejiklian government. Perrottet was elected as the Deputy Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party also in January 2017. He has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the seat of Hawkesbury for the Liberal Party since 2015, having previously represented Castle Hill from 2011 to 2015.
The New South Wales Minister for Finance, Services and Property is a minister in the Government of New South Wales responsible for administering legislation and policy in relation to the state's revenues, consumer affairs regulations, innovation policy, property and housing administration, co-operative societies, and government records in New South Wales, Australia. The minister's responsibilities also include matters relating to government services and service delivery, and their improvement.
Victor Michael Dominello, an Australian politician, is the New South Wales Minister for Finance, Services and Property since January 2017 in the Berejiklian government. Dominello is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Ryde for the Liberal Party since 2008.
Each year, the Treasurer presents the NSW Budget to the Parliament. In some other countries the equivalent role is the Minister for Finance, although NSW has had a separate office of that name responsible for regulating government spending. For 103 years the Treasurer was originally known as the 'Colonial Treasurer', however the 'Colonial' word was removed with the passing of the Ministers of the Crown Act 1959 (NSW) from 1 April 1959.
Treasurers Forster, Stuart, Dibbs, Jennings, Reid, Lyne, Waddell, Carruthers, McGowen, Holman, Fuller, Lang, Bavin, Stevens, Mair, McKell, McGirr, Cahill, Heffron, Renshaw, Askin, Lewis, Willis, Wran, Greiner, Fahey and Iemma were also Premier during some or all of their period as Treasurer.
The Premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Government of New South Wales follows the Westminster system, with a Parliament of New South Wales acting as the legislature. The Premier is appointed by the Governor of New South Wales, and by modern convention holds office by virtue of his or her ability to command the support of a majority of members of the lower house of Parliament, the Legislative Assembly.
|Ordinal||Name||Party affiliation||Ministerial title||Term start||Term end||Time in office|
|1.||Thomas Holt||No party||Colonial Treasurer||6 June 1856||25 August 1856|
|2.||Robert Campbell||26 August 1856||2 October 1856|
|3.||Stuart Donaldson||3 October 1856||7 September 1857|
|4.||Richard Jones||7 September 1857||3 January 1858|
|–||Robert Campbell||4 January 1858||30 March 1859|
|5.||Elias Weekes||18 April 1859||26 October 1859|
|6.||Saul Samuel||27 October 1859||8 March 1860|
|–||Elias Weekes||9 March 1860||20 March 1863|
|7.||Thomas Smart||21 March 1863||15 October 1863|
|8.||Geoffrey Eagar||16 October 1863||2 February 1865|
|–||Thomas Smart||3 February 1865||19 October 1865|
|–||Saul Samuel||20 October 1865||3 January 1866|
|9.||Marshall Burdekin||4 January 1866||21 January 1866|
|–||Geoffrey Eagar||22 January 1866||26 October 1868|
|–||Saul Samuel||27 October 1868||15 December 1870|
|10.||George Lord||16 December 1870||13 May 1872|
|11.||William Piddington||14 May 1872||4 December 1872|
|12.||George Lloyd||5 December 1872||8 February 1875|
|13.||William Forster||9 February 1875||7 February 1876|
|14.||Alexander Stuart||8 February 1876||21 March 1877|
|–||William Piddington||22 March 1877||16 August 1877|
|15.||William Long||17 August 1877||17 December 1877|
|16.||Henry Cohen||18 December 1877||20 December 1878|
|17.||James Watson||21 December 1878||4 January 1883|
|18.||George Dibbs||5 January 1883||21 December 1885|
|19.||John Burns||22 December 1885||25 February 1886|
|20.||Sir Patrick Jennings||26 February 1886||19 January 1887|
|–||John Burns||Protectionist||20 January 1887||16 January 1889|
|21.||James Garvan||Free Trade||17 January 1889||7 March 1889|
|22.||William McMillan||8 March 1889||27 July 1891|
|23.||Bruce Smith||14 August 1891||22 October 1891|
|24.||John See||Protectionist||23 October 1891||2 August 1894|
|25.||Sir George Reid||Free Trade||3 August 1894||3 July 1899|
|26.||Joseph Carruthers||3 July 1899||13 September 1899|
|27.||Sir William Lyne||Protectionist||15 September 1899||20 March 1901|
|28.||Thomas Waddell||10 April 1901||29 August 1904|
|–||Sir Joseph Carruthers||Liberal Reform||29 August 1904||1 October 1907|
|–||Thomas Waddell||2 October 1907||20 October 1910|
|29.||James McGowen||Labor||21 October 1910||26 November 1911|
|30.||John Dacey||27 November 1911||11 April 1912|
|31.||Ambrose Carmichael||17 April 1912||5 May 1912|
|32.||John Cann||6 May 1912||29 January 1914|
|33.||William Holman||29 January 1914||15 November 1916||4 years, 274 days|
|Nationalist||15 November 1916||30 October 1918|
|34.||John Fitzpatrick||30 October 1918||12 April 1920|
|35.||Jack Lang||Labor||12 April 1920||20 December 1921|
|36.||Sir Arthur Cocks||Nationalist||20 December 1921||20 December 1921||0 days|
|–||Jack Lang||Labor||20 December 1921||13 April 1922|
|–||Sir Arthur Cocks||Nationalist||13 April 1922||14 February 1925|
|37.||Sir George Fuller||14 February 1925||17 June 1925|
|–||Jack Lang||Labor||17 June 1925||18 October 1927|
|38.||Thomas Bavin||Nationalist||18 October 1927||15 April 1929|
|39.||Bertram Stevens||16 April 1929||3 November 1930|
|–||Jack Lang||Labor||4 November 1930||15 October 1931||1 year, 191 days|
|Labor (NSW)||15 October 1931||13 May 1932|
|–||Bertram Stevens||United Australia||16 May 1932||13 October 1938|
|40.||Alexander Mair||13 October 1938||16 August 1939|
|41.||Athol Richardson||16 August 1939||16 May 1941|
|42.||William McKell||Labor||16 May 1941||6 February 1947|
|43.||James McGirr||6 February 1947||3 April 1952|
|44.||Joseph Cahill||3 April 1952||1 April 1959||7 years, 203 days|
|Treasurer||1 April 1959||22 October 1959|
|45.||Bob Heffron||23 October 1959||28 October 1959||5 days|
|46.||Jack Renshaw||28 October 1959||13 May 1965||5 years, 197 days|
|47.||Sir Robert Askin||Liberal||13 May 1965||17 December 1975||10 years, 218 days|
|48.||Tom Lewis||17 December 1975||23 January 1976||37 days|
|49.||Sir Eric Willis||23 January 1976||14 May 1976||112 days|
|–||Jack Renshaw||Labor||14 May 1976||29 February 1980||3 years, 291 days|
|50.||Neville Wran||29 February 1980||2 October 1981||1 year, 216 days|
|51.||Ken Booth||2 October 1981||21 March 1988||6 years, 175 days|
|52.||Nick Greiner||Liberal||25 March 1988||24 June 1992||4 years, 91 days|
|53.||John Fahey||24 June 1992||26 May 1993||336 days|
|54.||Peter Collins||26 May 1993||4 April 1995||1 year, 313 days|
|55.||Michael Egan||Labor||4 April 1995||21 January 2005||9 years, 292 days|
|56.||Andrew Refshauge||21 January 2005||3 August 2005||194 days|
|57.||Morris Iemma||3 August 2005||17 February 2006||198 days|
|58.||Michael Costa||17 February 2006||5 September 2008||2 years, 204 days|
|59.||Eric Roozendaal||8 September 2008||28 March 2011||2 years, 208 days|
|60.||Mike Baird||Liberal||4 April 2011||23 April 2014||3 years, 19 days|
|61.||Andrew Constance||23 April 2014||2 April 2015||344 days|
|62.||Gladys Berejiklian||2 April 2015||30 January 2017||1 year, 303 days|
|63.||Dominic Perrottet||30 January 2017||incumbent||1 year, 162 days|
The Assistant Treasurer, when in use and along with the Minister for Finance, effectively acted as Deputy to the Treasurer. From 1925–1929 there existed the office of 'Assistant Colonial Treasurer'. However this office was abolished and when it returned in 1933, it was titled as 'Assistant Treasurer'. The Assistant Treasurer is not an essential cabinet post, often being appointed on an on-off basis, and there is no Assistant Treasurer at the present. Significantly, the role exists only when in use; there can be a lengthy period between successive holders of the title. The last Assistant Treasurer was John Della Bosca from 1999 to 2006. The title Minister for Finance is also used within New South Wales governments but that role is primarily made responsible for the Revenue collection and administration side of Governance.
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|Assistant Treasurer||Party affiliation||Period||Ministerial title|
|William McKell||Labor||17 June 1925 – 7 June 1927||Assistant Colonial Treasurer|
|Robert Cruickshank||19 September 1927 – 18 October 1927|
|Bertram Stevens||Nationalist||18 October 1927 – 15 April 1929|
|Eric Spooner||United Australia||15 February 1933 – 21 August 1935||Assistant Treasurer|
|Clive Evatt||Labor||19 May 1947 – 23 February 1953||Assistant Treasurer|
|George Freudenstein||Country||11 March 1971 – 19 June 1972||Assistant Treasurer|
|Wallace Fife||Liberal||19 June 1972 – 3 January 1975|
|Max Ruddock||3 January 1975 – 10 October 1975|
|Peter Coleman||10 October 1975 – 23 January 1976|
|Max Ruddock||23 January 1976 – 14 May 1976|
|Ken Booth||Labor||29 February 1980 – 2 October 1981||Assistant Treasurer|
|Phillip Smiles||Liberal||1 February 1991 – 1 February 1992||Assistant Treasurer|
|George Souris||National||3 July 1992 – 26 May 1993|
|John Della Bosca||Labor||8 April 1999 – 17 February 2006||Assistant Treasurer|
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