Minister for Regional Development is a position in the

government of Western Australia The Government of Western Australia, formally referred to as His Majesty's Government of Western Australia, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Western Australia. It is also commonly referred to as the WA Government o ...

, currently held by

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of the Labor Party. The position was first created in 1977, for the government of

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, 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

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