Minister for Cities (Australia)

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Minister for Cities
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Incumbent
Clare O'Neil
since 13 May 2025 (2025-05-13)
Department of the Treasury
Style The Honourable
Appointer Governor-General
on the advice of the prime minister
Inaugural holder Tom Uren (as Minister for Urban and Regional Development)
Formation19 December 1972 (1972-12-19)
Website ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/clare-oneil-2025

The Minister for Cities is an Australian Government cabinet position which is currently held by Clare O'Neil following her swearing-in on 13 May 2025 as a result of Anthony Albanese's Labor government being re-elected at the 2025 Australian federal election.

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Background

The Minister for Sustainable Population, a precedent title for the Minister for Cities, was a ministerial portfolio administered through the Department of the Treasury responsible for "planning properly for the infrastructure needs, for the housing needs, for the transport needs, for the regional needs" of the Australian population of the future. [1] Originally entitled the Minister for Population by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, his successor, Julia Gillard, renamed the portfolio to the Minister for Sustainable Population to reflect her policy changes on the matter of population growth and the need for a sustainable future for Australia, saying the change sends a clear message about the new direction the Government is taking. [2] After the 2010 federal election, the portfolio was subsumed by the Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities portfolio. [3]

List of ministers for cities

The following individuals have served as the Minister for Cities, or any other precedent titles: [4] [5]

OrderMinisterPartyPrime MinisterTitleTerm startTerm endTerm in office
1 Tom Uren   Labor Whitlam Minister for Urban and Regional Development 19 December 197211 November 19752 years, 327 days
2 John Carrick Liberal Fraser 11 November 197522 December 197541 days
3 Ivor Greenwood Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development22 December 19758 July 1976199 days
4 Kevin Newman 8 July 197620 December 19771 year, 165 days
5 Ray Groom 20 December 19775 December 1978350 days
6 Tony Burke   Labor Rudd Minister for Population14 April 201028 June 20103 years, 78 days
Gillard Minister for Sustainable Population28 June 201014 September 2010
Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities14 September 20101 July 2013
7 Jamie Briggs Liberal Abbott Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development 18 September 201315 September 20152 years, 102 days
Turnbull 15 September 201521 September 2015
Minister for Cities and the Built Environment21 September 201529 December 2015
8 Paul Fletcher Liberal Turnbull Minister for Urban Infrastructure19 July 201620 December 20172 years, 39 days
Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities20 December 201728 August 2018
9 Alan Tudge Morrison Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population28 August 201829 May 20192 years, 116 days
Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure29 May 201922 December 2020
(8) Paul Fletcher Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts 22 December 202023 May 20221 year, 152 days
10 Jenny McAllister   Labor Albanese Minister for Cities29 July 202413 May 2025288 days
11 Clare O'Neil 13 May 2025Incumbent3 days

References

  1. ↑ "Burke takes on population portfolio". ABC News . Australia. 3 April 2010. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010.
  2. ↑ "Gillard puts brakes on 'big Australia'". ABC News . Australia. 27 June 2010. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2010.
  3. ↑ "Second Gillard Ministry" (PDF). The Australian . 14 September 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
  4. ↑ "Ministries and Cabinets". 43rd Parliamentary Handbook: Historical information on the Australian Parliament. Parliament of Australia. 2010. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Ministerial Swearing-in Ceremony". Events. Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. 18 February 2016. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
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