Minister for Sport (New South Wales)

The Minister for Sport is a minister in the Government of New South Wales with responsibilities for the administration and support for all sporting bodies in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It has often been combined with other portfolio responsibilities, most commonly Tourism.^[1]

Minister for Sport
Incumbent Steve Kamper since 5 April 2023
Department of Enterprise, Investment and Trade
Style	The Honourable
Nominator	Premier of New South Wales
Appointer	Governor of New South Wales
Inaugural holder	Eric Willis (as the Minister for Tourism and Sport)
Formation	11 March 1971

Scope

Minister for Culture, Sport and Recreation (1975-1976)

The formation of the ministry and supporting department was a response to the Government’s growing involvement in leisure and sporting activities. Included in these activities were sport, recreation, the visual arts and crafts, and the performing arts. Some of the government controls relating to motor, horse and greyhound racing, Sunday entertainment and the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground were also transferred to the new Department from the Chief Secretary, although the Chief Secretary’s successor, the Department of Services, continued to provide the administrative staff for many of these activities.^[2]

The responsibilities of the portfolio included the Advisory Committee on Cultural Grants, Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Archives Authority of New South Wales, the Library and Library Board of New South Wales, Museums, Film Council, Observatory and Opera House and the sport and recreation service of New South Wales. The last organisation aimed to promote physical fitness and recreational opportunities which was achieved by providing camping facilities, swimming instruction, school vacation play centres.^[3]

The ministry was abolished in the first Wran ministry in 1976, separated into the portfolio of Sport and Recreation and while cultural activities became the responsibility of the Premier.

List of ministers

The following individuals have served as minister where sport was one of the responsibilities in the portfolio:

Title	Minister [1]	Party		Ministry	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
Minister for Tourism and Sport	Eric Willis		Liberal	Askin (4)	11 March 1971	19 June 1972	1 year, 100 days	[4]
Minister for Sport	Ian Griffith			Askin (4) (5) (6)	19 June 1972	3 January 1975	2 years, 198 days	[5]
Minister for Culture, Sport and Recreation	John Barraclough			Lewis (1) (2)	3 January 1975	23 January 1976	1 year, 20 days	[6]
	David Arblaster [a]			Willis	23 January 1976	14 May 1976	112 days	[7]
Minister for Sport and Recreation	Ken Booth [a]		Labor	Wran (1) (2) (3)	14 May 1976	2 October 1981	5 years, 141 days	[8]
	Michael Cleary [a]			Wran (4)	2 October 1981	26 May 1982	6 years, 171 days	[9]
Minister for Leisure, Sport and Tourism				Wran (4) (5)	26 May 1982	10 February 1984
Minister for Sport and Recreation				Wran (6) (7) (8) Unsworth	10 February 1984	21 March 1988
Minister for Sport, Recreation and Racing	Bob Rowland Smith		National	Greiner (1)	25 March 1988	18 September 1989	3 years, 60 days	[10]
Minister for Sport and Recreation					18 September 1989	24 May 1991
Minister for Sport, Recreation and Racing	George Souris			Greiner (2) Fahey (1)	6 June 1991	3 July 1992	1 year, 27 days	[11]
	Joe Schipp		Liberal	Fahey (2)	3 July 1992	26 May 1993	327 days	[12]
	Christopher Downy			Fahey (3)	26 May 1993	4 April 1995	1 year, 313 days	[13]
Minister for Sport and Recreation	Gabrielle Harrison		Labor	Carr (1) (2)	4 April 1995	8 April 1999	4 years, 4 days	[14]
	John Watkins			Carr (3)	8 April 1999	21 November 2001	2 years, 227 days	[15]
	Morris Iemma				21 November 2001	2 April 2003	1 year, 132 days	[16]
Minister for Tourism and Sport and Recreation	Sandra Nori [a]			Carr (4) Iemma (1)	2 April 2003	2 April 2007	4 years, 0 days	[17]
Minister for Sport and Recreation	Graham West			Iemma (2)	2 April 2007	5 September 2008	1 year, 156 days	[18]
	Kevin Greene			Rees Keneally	5 September 2008	28 March 2011	2 years, 204 days	[19]
	Graham Annesley		Liberal	O'Farrell	3 April 2011	28 August 2013	2 years, 147 days	[20]
	Gabrielle Upton				30 August 2013	23 April 2014	236 days	[21]
	Stuart Ayres [b]			Baird (1)	23 April 2014	2 April 2015	4 years, 334 days	[22]
Minister for Sport				Baird (2) Berejiklian (1)	2 April 2015	23 March 2019
Minister for Sport, Multiculturalism, Seniors and Veterans	John Sidoti			Berejiklian (2)	2 April 2019	17 September 2019	168 days	[23][24]
	Geoff Lee (acting)				17 September 2019	27 May 2021	1 year, 232 days
	Natalie Ward			Berejiklian (2) Perrottet (1)	27 May 2021	21 December 2021	208 days	[25] [26]
Minister for Tourism and Sport	Stuart Ayres [a]			Perrottet (2)	21 December 2021	3 August 2022	225 days	[22][27]
Minister for Sport	Alister Henskens				5 August 2022	5 April 2023	2 years, 284 days	[28]
	Steve Kamper		Labor	Minns	5 April 2023	incumbent	2 years, 41 days

See also

• New South Wales portal
• Politics portal

• List of New South Wales government agencies
• Minister for Sport (Australia)
  • Minister for Sport (Victoria)
  • Minister for Sport and Recreation (Northern Territory)
  • Minister for Sport and Recreation (Western Australia)

Notes

1. Concurrently Minister for Tourism.
2. Stuart Ayres held the Tourism portfolio from 2 April 2015 until 30 January 2017.