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Minister for Regional Development is a position in the government of Western Australia, currently held by
Alannah MacTiernan Alannah Joan Geraldine Cecilia MacTiernan (born 10 January 1953) is an Australian politician. Since 1988, she has served in politics at a federal, state, and local level, including as a minister in the Western Australian state governments of Ge ...
of the Labor Party. The position was first created in 1977, for the government of
Charles Court Sir Charles Walter Michael Court, (29 September 1911 – 22 December 2007) was a Western Australian politician, and the 21st Premier of Western Australia from 1974 to 1982. He was a member of the Liberal Party. Early life Court's family e ...
, and has existed in most governments since then. The minister is responsible for the state government's
Department of Regional Development Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
. Prior to the creation of a regional development portfolio, there was a separate minister with responsibility for
North-West Australia The North West, North West Coast, North Western Australia and North West Australia, are usually informal names for the northern regions of the State of Western Australia. However, some conceptions of "North West Australia" have included adjoi ...
, called the Minister for North-West. That position has not existed since 1993. Additionally, in the Labor governments of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, either some or all of the
regions of Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is divided into regions according to a number of systems. The most common system is the WA Government division of the state into regions for economic development purposes, which comprises nine defined regions; however, t ...
had specific ministers.


List of regional development ministers


List of ministers for specific regions


Gascoyne


Goldfields-Esperance


Great Southern


Kimberley


Mid-West


North-West


Peel


Pilbara


South-West


Wheatbelt


See also

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References

* David Black (2014)
''The Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook (Twenty-Third Edition)''
Perth .A. Parliament of Western Australia. {{Western Australian ministerial portfolios
Regional Development Regional development is a broad term but can be seen as a general effort to reduce regional disparities by supporting (employ) economin regions. In the past, regional development policy tended to try to achieve these objectives by means developmen ...
Minister for Regional Development 1977 establishments in Australia