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Minister for Finance (New South Wales)

Government minister in New South Wales, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ23073740 ↗
Source-derived summary

The New South Wales Minister for Finance is a minister of the New South Wales Government within Treasury and the Department of Customer Service and has responsibilities for matters relating to revenue collection policy and regulation in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

The minister is supported by the Minister for Small Business who has responsibilities for matters relating to small business policy and regulation in New South Wales.

The minister administers the portfolio and supports the Treasurer of New South Wales, through Treasury, Revenue NSW, and associated government agencies.

Ultimately the minister is responsible to the Parliament of New South Wales.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Minister for Finance (New South Wales)” is government minister in New South Wales, Australia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Minister, Finance and South, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current 103-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-03-14. For this dossier, Minister, Finance and South is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “government minister in New South Wales, Australia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23073740. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Minister for Finance (New South Wales)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Minister for Finance (New South Wales) primary sources, Minister for Finance (New South Wales) archive and Minister research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “Minister for Finance (New South Wales)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.