The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy is currently Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy. He replaced Senator the Hon Helen Coonan (Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) on 3 December 2007.
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Portfolio
The previous Minister had overall responsibility for all of the matters falling within the Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfolio:
- Broadcasting
- Information and Communications Technology Industry
- Information economy
- Telecommunications
- Arts and Sport
Agency and bodies
Portfolio agencies and bodies include:
- Australia Business Arts Foundation Limited
- Australia Council for the Arts
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Australian Communications and Media Authority
- Australian Film Commission
- Australian Film, Television and Radio School
- Australian Government Information Management Office
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Australian Postal Corporation
- Australian Sports Commission
- Australian Sports Drug Agency
- Bundanon Trust
- Film Australia Limited
- Film Finance Corporation Australia Limited
- National Archives of Australia
- National Gallery of Australia
- National Library of Australia
- National Museum of Australia
- National Portrait Gallery
- NetAlert Limited
- Old Parliament House
- Special Broadcasting Service
- Telstra Corporation Limited
Australian Postmasters-General and Ministers for Communications
The minister responsible for telecommunications policy has had had various titles but from 1901 until December 1975 it was always Postmaster-General, in charge of the Postmaster-General's Department.
| Minister | Party affiliation | Period | Ministerial Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Forrest | Protectionist Party | 1901 | Postmaster-General |
| James Drake | Protectionist Party | 1901–1903 | |
| Philip Fysh | Protectionist Party | 1903–1904 | |
| Hugh Mahon | Australian Labor Party | 1904 | |
| Sydney Smith | Free Trade Party | 1904–1905 | |
| Austin Chapman | Protectionist Party | 1905–1907 | |
| Samuel Mauger | Protectionist Party | 1907–1908 | |
| Josiah Thomas | Australian Labor Party | 1908–1909 | |
| John Quick | Commonwealth Liberal Party | 1909–1910 | |
| Josiah Thomas | Australian Labor Party | 1910–1911 | |
| Charles Frazer | Australian Labor Party | 1911–1913 | |
| Agar Wynne | Commonwealth Liberal Party | 1913–1914 | |
| William Spence | Australian Labor Party | 1914–1915 | |
| William Webster | Australian Labor Party/ Nationalist Party of Australia |
1915–1920 | |
| George Wise | Nationalist Party of Australia | 1920–1921 | |
| Alexander Poynton | Nationalist Party of Australia | 1921–1923 | |
| William Gibson | Nationalist Party of Australia | 1923–1929 | |
| Joseph Lyons | Australian Labor Party | 1929–1931 | |
| Australian Labor Party | 1931–1932 | ||
| James Fenton | United Australia Party | 1932 | |
| Archdale Parkhill | United Australia Party | 1932–1934 | |
| Alexander McLachlan | United Australia Party | 1934–1938 | |
| Archie Cameron | Country Party | 1938–1939 | |
| Eric Harrison | United Australia Party | 1939–1940 | |
| Harold Thorby | United Australia Party | 1939–1940 | |
| George McLeay | United Australia Party | 1940–1941 | |
| Thomas Collins | United Australia Party | 1941 | |
| William Ashley | Australian Labor Party | 1941–1945 | |
| Donald Cameron | Australian Labor Party | 1945–1949 | |
| Hubert Lawrence Anthony | Country Party | 1949–1956 | |
| Charles Davidson | Country Party | 1956–1963 | |
| Alan Hulme | Liberal Party | 1963–1972 | |
| Lionel Bowen | Australian Labor Party | 1972–1974 | |
| Reg Bishop | Australian Labor Party | 1974–1975 | |
| Peter Nixon | National Country Party | 1975–1975 | |
| Victor Garland | Liberal Party | 1975–1976 | Minister for Post and Telecommunications |
| Eric Robinson | Liberal Party | 1976–1977 | |
| Tony Staley | Liberal Party | 1977–1980 | |
| Ian Sinclair | National Country Party | 1980–1982 | Minister for Communications |
| Neil Brown | Liberal Party | 1982–1983 | |
| Michael Duffy | Australian Labor Party | 1983–1987 | |
| Gareth Evans | Australian Labor Party | 1987–1988 | Minister for Transport and Communications |
| Ralph Willis | Australian Labor Party | 1988–1990 | |
| Kim Beazley | Australian Labor Party | 1990–1991 | |
| John Kerin | Australian Labor Party | 1991 | |
| Graham Richardson | Australian Labor Party | 1991–1992 | |
| Bob Collins* | Australian Labor Party | 1992–1993 | |
| David Beddall* | Australian Labor Party | 1993 | Minister for Communications |
| Michael Lee | Australian Labor Party | 1993–1994 | |
| Michael Lee | Australian Labor Party | 1994–1996 | Minister for Communications and the Arts |
| Richard Alston | Liberal Party | 1996–1998 | |
| Richard Alston | Liberal Party | 1998–2003 | Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts |
| Daryl Williams | Liberal Party | 2003–2004 | |
| Helen Coonan | Liberal Party | 2004–2007 | |
| Stephen Conroy | Australian Labor Party | 2007– | Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy |
- David Beddall was a junior minister who had served concurrently as Minister For Communications with his Cabinet colleague, Transport and Communications Minister Bob Collins from 24 March to 24 December 1993.
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