The Minister for Creative Industries is a minister within the Executive Council of Victoria, Australia. It was formerly known as the Minister for the Arts up until the Andrews Government.
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| Style | The Honourable |
| Member of | Parliament Executive council |
| Reports to | Premier |
| Nominator | Premier |
| Appointer | Governor on the recommendation of the premier |
| Term length | At the governor's pleasure |
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| Inaugural holder | Rupert Hamer MP |
| Formation | 23 August 1972 |
Ministers
| Order | MP | Party affiliation | Ministerial title | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes | |
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| 1 | Rupert Hamer MP | Liberal | Minister for the Arts | 23 August 1972 | 16 May 1979 | 6 years, 266 days | [1] | |
| 2 | Norman Lacy MP | 16 May 1979 | 8 April 1982 | 2 years, 327 days | [1][2] | |||
| 3 | Race Mathews MP | Labor | 8 April 1982 | 14 December 1987 | 5 years, 250 days | [3] | ||
| 4 | Ian Cathie MP | 14 December 1987 | 13 October 1988 | 304 days | ||||
| 5 | Robert Fordham MP | 13 October 1988 | 31 January 1989 | 110 days | ||||
| 6 | Evan Walker MLC | 7 February 1989 | 10 August 1990 | 1 year, 184 days | ||||
| 7 | Jim Kennan MP | 10 August 1990 | 6 October 1992 | 2 years, 57 days | [4] | |||
| 8 | Haddon Storey MLC | Liberal | 6 October 1992 | 3 April 1996 | 3 years, 180 days | [5] | ||
| 9 | Jeffrey Kennett MP | 3 April 1996 | 20 October 1999 | 3 years, 200 days | ||||
| 10 | Mary Delahunty MP | Labor | Minister for Arts | 20 October 1999 | 1 December 2006 | 7 years, 42 days | [6] | |
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| 11 | Lynne Kosky MP | 1 December 2006 | 20 January 2010 | 3 years, 50 days | [6][7] | |||
| 12 | Peter Batchelor MP | 20 January 2010 | 2 December 2010 | 316 days | [7] | |||
| 13 | Edward Baillieu MP | Liberal | 2 December 2010 | 6 March 2013 | 2 years, 94 days | [8] | ||
| 14 | Heidi Victoria MP | 13 March 2013 | 4 December 2014 | 1 year, 266 days | [9] | |||
| 15 | Martin Foley MP | Labor | Minister for Creative Industries | 4 December 2014 | 29 September 2020 | 5 years, 300 days | [10] | |
| 16 | Danny Pearson MP | 29 September 2020 | 27 June 2022 | 1 year, 271 days | [10][11] | |||
| 17 | Steve Dimopoulos MP | 27 June 2022 | 2 October 2023 | 1 year, 97 days | [10] | |||
| 18 | Colin Brooks MP | 2 October 2023 | Incumbent | 239 days | [12] | |||