Secretary for Public Works (New South Wales)
Secretary for Public Works of New South Wales | |
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Appointer | Governor of New South Wales |
Precursor | Secretary for Lands and Works |
Formation | 1 October 1859 |
First holder | Edward Flood |
Final holder | Morris Iemma |
Abolished | 2 April 2003 |
The Secretary for Public Works, later the Minister for Public Works was a long standing ministry in the administration of New South Wales created in 1859 and abolished in 2003.[1]
Role and responsibilities
The
Secretary for Lands and the Secretary for Public Works, which enabled John Robertson to concentrate on what became known as the Robertson Land Acts,[2][3] William Forster put forward and alternate explanation, that Cowper had created the position and appointed Flood in an unsuccessful attempt to strengthen his parliamentary position.[4]
The department had two main functions:
- The administration of the construction and maintenance of public works, including water supply, sewerage, electricity supply, railways, tramways, roads and electric telegraph; harbours and river navigation, the Civil Engineer (Dry Docks, Cockatoo Island), defence works and the Colonial Architect and
- A Board which oversaw how tenders for public works were administered.[5][6]
In 1906 the Secretary assumed responsibility for local government.
List of secretaries and ministers
Title | Minister[1] | Party | Ministry | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes | |
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Secretary for Public Works | Edward Flood | No party | Forster | 1 October 1859 | 26 October 1859 | 25 days | ||
Geoffrey Eagar | 27 October 1859 | 8 March 1860 | 133 days | |||||
William Arnold | Robertson (1) Cowper (3) |
9 March 1860 | 15 October 1863 | 3 years, 220 days | ||||
Arthur Holroyd | Martin (1) | 16 October 1863 | 2 February 1865 | 1 year, 109 days | ||||
William Arnold | Cowper (4) | 3 February 1865 | 19 October 1865 | 258 days | ||||
Thomas Smart | 20 October 1865 | 21 January 1866 | 93 days | |||||
James Byrnes | Martin (2) | 22 January 1866 | 26 October 1868 | 2 years, 278 days | ||||
John Sutherland | Robertson (2) Cowper (5) |
27 October 1868 | 15 December 1870 | 2 years, 49 days | ||||
James Byrnes | Martin (3) | 16 December 1870 | 13 May 1872 | 1 year, 149 days | ||||
John Sutherland | Parkes (1) | 14 May 1872 | 8 February 1875 | 2 years, 270 days | ||||
John Lackey
|
Robertson (3) | 9 February 1875 | 21 March 1877 | 2 years, 40 days | ||||
James Hoskins | Parkes (2) | 22 March 1877 | 16 August 1877 | 147 days | ||||
Edward Combes | Robertson (4) | 17 August 1877 | 17 December 1877 | 122 days | ||||
John Sutherland | Farnell | 18 December 1877 | 20 December 1878 | 1 year, 2 days | ||||
John Lackey
|
Parkes (3) | 21 December 1878 | 4 January 1883 | 4 years, 14 days | ||||
Henry Copeland
|
Stuart | 5 January 1883 | 28 March 1883 | 82 days | ||||
Francis Wright | 28 May 1883 | 6 October 1885 | 2 years, 131 days | |||||
Henry Badgery | Dibbs (1) | 7 October 1885 | 31 October 1885 | 24 days | ||||
William Lyne | 2 November 1885 | 21 December 1885 | 49 days | |||||
Jacob Garrard | Robertson (5) | 22 December 1885 | 25 February 1886 | 65 days | ||||
William Lyne | Jennings | 26 February 1886 | 19 January 1887 | 327 days | ||||
John Sutherland | Free Trade | Parkes (4) | 20 January 1887 | 16 January 1889 | 1 year, 362 days | |||
James Fletcher | Protectionist | Dibbs (2) | 17 January 1889 | 7 March 1889 | 49 days | |||
Bruce Smith | Free Trade | Parkes (5) | 8 March 1889 | 13 August 1891 | 2 years, 158 days | |||
James Young | 14 August 1891 | 22 October 1891 | 69 days | |||||
William Lyne | Protectionist | Dibbs (3) | 23 October 1891 | 2 August 1894 | 2 years, 283 days | |||
James Young | Free Trade | Reid | 3 August 1894 | 3 July 1899 | 4 years, 334 days | |||
Charles Lee | 3 July 1899 | 13 September 1899 | 72 days | |||||
Edward O'Sullivan
|
Protectionist | Lyne | 14 September 1899 | 27 March 1901 | 1 year, 194 days | |||
Progressive | See | 28 March 1901 | 14 June 1904 | 3 years, 78 days | ||||
Walter Bennett | Waddell | 15 June 1904 | 29 August 1904 | 75 days | ||||
Charles Lee | Liberal Reform | Carruthers Wade |
29 August 1904 | 20 October 1910 | 6 years, 52 days | |||
Minister for Public Works | Arthur Griffith | Labor | McGowen Holman (1) |
21 October 1910 | 15 March 1915 | 4 years, 145 days | ||
John Cann | Holman (1) | 15 March 1915 | 15 November 1916 | 1 year, 245 days | ||||
Secretary for Public Works | Richard Ball | Nationalist | Holman (2) | 15 November 1916 | 12 April 1920 | 3 years, 149 days | ||
John Estell | Labor | Storey Dooley (1) |
12 April 1920 | 20 December 1921 | 1 year, 252 days | |||
Sir Thomas Henley | Nationalist | Fuller (1) | 20 December 1921 | 20 December 1921 | 7 hours | |||
John Estell | Labor | Dooley (2)
|
20 December 1921 | 13 April 1922 | 114 days | |||
Sir Thomas Henley | Nationalist | Fuller (2) | 13 April 1922 | 19 June 1922 | 67 days | |||
Richard Ball | 28 June 1922 | 17 June 1925 | 2 years, 354 days | |||||
Martin Flannery | Labor | Lang (1) | 17 June 1925 | 26 May 1927 | 1 year, 343 days | |||
Bill Ratcliffe | Lang (2) | 27 May 1927 | 18 October 1927 | 144 days | ||||
Ernest Buttenshaw | Country | Bavin | 18 October 1927 | 3 November 1930 | 3 years, 16 days | |||
Mat Davidson | Labor | Lang (3) | 4 November 1930 | 15 October 1931 | 345 days | |||
Labor (NSW)
|
15 October 1931 | 13 May 1932 | 211 days | |||||
Reginald Weaver | United Australia | Stevens (1)
|
16 May 1932 | 10 February 1935 | 2 years, 270 days | |||
Bertram Stevens | Stevens (2) | 10 February 1935 | 21 August 1935 | 192 days | ||||
Eric Spooner | Stevens (2) (3) | 22 August 1935 | 21 July 1939 | 3 years, 333 days | ||||
Bertram Stevens | Mair | 21 July 1939 | 5 August 1939 | 15 days | ||||
Alexander Mair | 5 August 1939 | 16 August 1939 | 11 days | |||||
Lewis Martin | 16 August 1939 | 16 May 1941 | 1 year, 273 days | |||||
Joseph Cahill | Labor | McKell (1) (2) McGirr (1) (2) (3) |
16 May 1941 | 2 April 1952 | 10 years, 322 days | |||
Jack Renshaw | Cahill (1) (2) | 3 April 1952 | 15 March 1956 | 3 years, 347 days | ||||
John McGrath | Cahill (3) | 15 March 1956 | 1 April 1959 | 3 years, 17 days | ||||
Minister for Public Works | Norm Ryan | Cahill (4) Heffron (1) (2) Renshaw |
1 April 1959 | 13 May 1965 | 6 years, 42 days | |||
Davis Hughes | Country | Askin (1) (2) (3) (4) | 13 May 1965 | 17 January 1973 | 7 years, 249 days | |||
Leon Punch | Askin (5) (6) Lewis (1) (2) |
17 January 1973 | 14 May 1976 | 3 years, 118 days | ||||
Jack Ferguson | Labor | Wran (1) (2) (3) (4) | 14 May 1976 | 10 February 1984 | 7 years, 272 days | |||
Laurie Brereton | Wran (5) (6) (7) | 10 February 1984 | 6 February 1986 | 1 year, 361 days | ||||
Minister for Public Works and Ports
|
Wran (8) Unsworth |
6 February 1986 | 26 November 1987 | 1 year, 293 days | ||||
Minister for Public Works | Peter Cox | Unsworth | 26 November 1987 | 21 March 1988 | 116 days | |||
Wal Murray | National | (2)
|
21 March 1988 | 26 May 1993 | 5 years, 66 days | |||
Ian Armstrong | Fahey (3) | 26 May 1993 | 4 April 1995 | 1 year, 313 days | ||||
Minister for Public Works and Services | Michael Knight | Labor | Carr (1)
|
4 April 1995 | 15 December 1995 | 255 days | ||
Carl Scully | 15 December 1995 | 1 December 1997 | 1 year, 351 days | |||||
Ron Dyer | Carr (2)
|
1 December 1997 | 8 April 1999 | 1 year, 128 days | ||||
Morris Iemma | Carr (3) | 8 April 1999 | 2 April 2003 | 3 years, 359 days |
References
- ^ a b "Part 6 Ministries since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser. 13 October 1859. p. 2. Retrieved 14 December 2020 – via Trove.
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ "AGY-45 Department of (Secretary of) Public Works". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ "AGY-3082 Department of Public Works [II]". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 14 December 2020.