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Minister for Financial Services

Australian ministerial position

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ11796941 ↗
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The Australian Minister for Financial Services is a ministerial portfolio of the Australian Government. As of May 2025, it is held by Daniel Mulino, who also holds the role of Assistant Treasurer.

The first Minister for Financial Services and Regulation was Joe Hockey, appointed in 1998.

The first Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law was Nick Sherry, appointed following the Labor Party's win at the 2007 election. The ministry was administered through the Department of the Treasury.

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This entry incorporates text from “Minister for Financial Services” 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.