Minister for Housing (Australia)

The Australian Minister for Housing is Tanya Plibersek, who was appointed on 3 December 2007, following the Labor Party's win at the 2007 election. The minister is responsible for housing policy co-ordination, welfare housing and rent assistance and is administered through the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. [cite web
title=Administrative Arrangement Order
publisher=Government of Australia
date=3 December 2007
url=http://www.pmc.gov.au/parliamentary/docs/aao_2007.pdf
format=PDF
accessdate=2007-12-11 (Part 8, p19)]

Australian ministers for housing

The first Minister for Housing was Les Bury, appointed in 1963, although there were Ministers in charge of War Service Homes from 1932 to 1938 and 1941 to 1945. In 1945 Hubert Lazzarini was appointed Minister for Works and Housing and this title continued until 1952, when Wilfrid Kent Hughes became Minister for Works. No minister included "works" or "construction" in his porfolio after Stewart West lost this title in 1987, partly refelecting the progressive outsourcing of the Commonwealth's construction activities and even ownership of assets. The John Howard government had no Minister of Housing, partly reflecting the decline of the significance of the commonwealth-state housing agreements as a means of providing new housing since the post-war years.

References

External links

* [http://www.tanyaplibersek.fahcsia.gov.au/internet/tanyaplibersek.nsf Minister's website]