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Shadow Ministry Of Jodi McKay
The Shadow Ministry of Jodi McKay was the Labor opposition from July 2019 to May 2021, opposing the Berejiklian government in the Parliament of New South Wales. It was led by Jodi McKay following her election as leader of the party and NSW Leader of the Opposition on 29 June 2019. The shadow ministry was announced on 3 July 2019. The shadow cabinet was made up of 31 members of the NSW Labor caucus. 3 of the shadow ministers quit the shadow ministry in May 2021, culminating in the resignation of McKay as Leader of the Opposition on 28 May 2021. One of the shadow ministers who quit, Chris Minns, became the new Leader of the Opposition the following week, and the McKay shadow ministry was replaced by the Minns shadow ministry. Shadow Cabinet See also * 2019 New South Wales state election *Second Berejiklian ministry * Shadow Ministry of Michael Daley *Shadow Ministry of Chris Minns References McKay McKay, MacKay or Mackay is a Scottish / Irish surname. The last phon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch)
The Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), also known as NSW Labor, is the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the members of the party caucus, comprising all party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. The party factions have a strong influence on the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on the continuing support of the caucus (and party factions) and the leader may be deposed by failing to win a vote of confidence of parliamentary members. By convention, the premier sits in the Legislative Assembly, and is the leader of the party controlling a majority in that house. The party leader also typically is a member of the Assembly, though this is not a strict party constitutional requirement. Barrie Unsworth, for example, was elected party leader while a member of the Legislative Council. He then transferred to the Assembly by winning a seat at a by-election. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynda Voltz
Lynda Jane Voltz (born 1965) is an Australian politician and Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Auburn since 2019. Voltz was previously a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2007 to 2019. As of April 2016, Voltz is also the Shadow Minister for Sport and Veterans' Affairs. Voltz was born in Hornsby on Sydney's North Shore, and attended Birrong Girls High School. Voltz joined the Australian Army Reserve in 1984, and in 1987 she became one of the first women to the join the regular Australian Army as one of the second group of women to train alongside men at Army Recruit Training Centre at Kapooka. She joined the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police, as it was one of the few field force units women were allowed to join. After leaving the army, she worked as a political staffer for state MP Sandra Nori, federal member for Sydney Peter Baldwin, and then as an electoral officer for Senator John Faulkner. At the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Watson (politician)
Anna Watson is an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electoral district of Shellharbour. Personal life Watson grew up in Loftus. She was employed in accounting and clerical jobs before becoming a union organiser with the United Services Union.ABC Illawarra: ''Union organiser wins Labor preselection'' In the 12 years she spent in that role, Watson was involved in union activities in a number of industries. Preselection Watson was preselected in 2010 following the resignation of former member Lylea McMahon. McMahon had been "parachuted" into the seat prior to the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Primrose
Peter Thomas Primrose (born 26 September 1955) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 1996. He has served in various portfolios including Shadow Minister for Local Government, Shadow Minister for Regional Roads, Shadow Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation, Shadow Minister for Finance, Shadow Minister of State and Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader on Western Sydney. He was also the President of the Legislative Council (8 May 2007 – 17 November 2009), Minister for Disability Services (2 March 2010 – 28 March 2011) and Minister for Youth (8 December 2009 – 28 March 2011) among other portfolios. Primrose was previously the Labor member for Camden in the Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 1991, and was unsuccessful in regaining the seat at the 1995 election. After Primrose graduated from the University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or inform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Moriarty
Tara Elizabeth Moriarty is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2019, representing the Australian Labor Party. Moriarty was Chair of Club Plus Superannuation and Secretary/President of the Liquor and Hospitality Division of UV prior to her election. She has been Senior Vice President of NSW Labor and a member of the ALP National Executive. Upon her election in 2019, Moriarty was immediately appointed to the shadow ministry, serving as the Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Crown Lands. She served in this role until Jodi McKay was replaced as Leader by Chris Minns in 2021. In 2021, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Corrections, Juvenile Justice and Medical Research in the shadow Ministry of Chris Minns. Following Labor's victory in the 2023 New South Wales state election, Moriarty was appointed Minister for Agriculture, Regional New South Wales and Western New South Wales in the Minns ministry The Minns mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Finn
Julia Dorothy Finn is an Australian politician who is the member for Granville in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Finn is a member of the Labor's NSW Left faction. Career Finn holds a masters degree in environmental science and worked previously for the government of New South Wales Department of Energy, Utilities and Sustainability. Finn served on Parramatta City Council from 1999 to 2012. She became lord mayor in 2004 at the age of thirty-one. In this role, she committed the council to water conservation measures during the millenium drought and expanded the Sydney Festival program at Parramatta, with the council becoming a sponsor. She was elected as the member for Granville for the Labor Party at the 2015 New South Wales state election. Finn voted no to the Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019. Finn was appointed Shadow Minister for Consumer Protection and Shadow Minister for Carers in the McKay shadow cabinet in July 2019. In June 2020, Finn tempora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodie Harrison
Jodie Elizabeth Harrison (born 1968) is an Australian politician who has represented the Charlestown Electorate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Labor Party since 25 October 2014, when she was elected in a by-election. Personal life Harrison was born in 1968 and is the eldest child of Clive Harrison and Elizabeth Denning. In 1973 her brother Todd Harrison was born. Harrison spent her formative years growing up in south-western suburbs of Sydney. Harrison moved to the Lake Macquarie region in the early 1990s after Harrison's parents bought a small business in Lake Macquarie. Early career Harrison worked at Newcastle City Council from 1993 until 2007 in various roles encompassing organisational change management, organisational performance and governance. Harrison was the inaugural chairperson of Newcastle City Council's Women's Committee established in the mid 1990s. Harrison was employed as a Recruitment Officer by the United Services Union (USU) from 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Scully (Australian Politician)
Paul Scully is an Australian politician who has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 12 November 2016, representing the seat of Wollongong for the Labor Party, since the by-election to replace Noreen Hay. He is currently the Shadow Minister for Planning and Public Spaces in the NSW Shadow Cabinet. Before his election Scully was chief operating officer of the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials at the University of Wollongong. He is married to Alison Byrnes, the member for Cunningham Cunningham is a surname of Scottish origin, see Clan Cunningham. Notable people sharing this surname A–C *Aaron Cunningham (born 1986), American baseball player *Abe Cunningham, American drummer * Adrian Cunningham (born 1960), Australian ... since the 2022 federal election. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Scully, Paul 21st-century Australian politicians Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Haylen
Joanna Elizabeth Haylen is an Australian politician who was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Summer Hill for the Labor Party at the 2015 New South Wales state election. She is currently the state's Minister for Transport since March 2023. Early life Haylen grew up on Sydney's North Shore. She attended Artarmon Public and Willoughby Girls High School. She graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts. Career Haylen served as youngest ever female Mayor of Marrickville from 2013 to 2014. She previously worked as a director of administration in the office of former prime minister Julia Gillard and as deputy chief of staff for former deputy prime minister Anthony Albanese. At the 2013 state redistribution, the seat of the Marrickville was abolished and was replaced with the seats of Newtown and Summer Hill. In November 2013 the sitting member for Marrickville, Carmel Tebbutt, announced she would not be recontesting at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trish Doyle
Trisha Lee Doyle is an Australian politician who was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Electoral district of Blue Mountains, Blue Mountains for the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party at the 2015 New South Wales state election. Career Doyle was a school teacher, and worked on the staff of Blue Mountains MP Phil Koperberg between 2007 and 2011. Doyle ran unsuccessfully as the Labor candidate in 2011 when the then incumbent Kristina Keneally, Keneally Labor Government was swept from power. She was later preselected again ahead of the 2015 New South Wales state election as the Labor candidate. The boundaries of the Blue Mountains electorate were redistributed before the election, increasing the margin for the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), Liberal Party from 4.7 to 5.4 points. At the 2015 election Doyle topped the first preference vote with 41.2%. There was a swing of 18.7 points toward her on fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Warren (politician)
Gregory Charles Warren (born 6 November 1973) is an Australian politician who was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor Party member for Campbelltown at the 2015 New South Wales state election. Warren was a Camden Councillor, having served as mayor from 2011 to 2012, and worked in business logistics. His preselection was the first community preselection held by the New South Wales Australian Labor Party. Following his reelection at the 2019 New South Wales state election, he was appointed to Shadow Ministry under the portfolios of Local Government, Veterans Affairs and Western Sydney Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that id .... Greg was appointed as a Parliamentary Secretary in 2023. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Greg 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Aitchison
Jennifer Kathleen Aitchison is an Australian politician in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as member for Maitland for the Labor Party at the 2015 New South Wales state election. She is currently the Shadow Minister for Transport in the NSW Shadow Cabinet. Before her election Aitchison worked as a managing director of tourism and hospitality companies. Early years and background Aitchison was born in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory born to Jim and Anne O'Connor a library officer in the Commonwealth Public Service and also one of the first women to receive paid maternity leave for the birth of Jenny. Aitchison at around about eight years old started to follow in her mother's footsteps and commenced working at her local library as a volunteer. In 1985 during the first International Year of Youth, Aitchison was selected to represent her school on an interschool newspaper which is where she later said was "the start of my activism". At 21 years of age, Aitchiso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
