Gaetano "Guy" Zangari () is an Australian former politician. He was a
Labor Party member of the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...
from March 2011 to March 2023, representing the electorate of
Fairfield. Zangari is a dual Australian and Italian citizen.
Zangari was a teacher at various high schools in Western Sydney for over 16 years. He spent over eight years teaching at
Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield
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, and later worked as a
Pastoral Care Coordinator at
Freeman Catholic College
Freeman Catholic College is a Catholic Roman Catholic co-educational secondary school located in Bonnyrigg Heights, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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in
Bonnyrigg.
On 18 November 2010, he was preselected unopposed for the seat of Fairfield to replace the former Member,
Joe Tripodi
Joseph Guerino Tripodi (born 25 November 1967), a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Fairfield for the Labor Party between 1995 and 2011. He was Minister for ...
, who announced he would be quitting parliament at the
2011 NSW state election. Zangari won with 40.7% of the votes, compared to Liberal Party candidate Charbel Saliba who received 37.9%. At the
2015 NSW state election, Guy secured 53.71% of the formal vote after preferences giving him a 15.2-point swing back to Labor. At the
2019 NSW State Election, Guy increased his percentage of the vote to 57.23%.
He did not re-contest his seat at the
2023 New South Wales state election
The 2023 New South Wales state election will be held on 25 March 2023 to elect the 58th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council. The election will be ...
.
References
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Living people
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Australian politicians of Italian descent
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Australian Catholic University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Australian schoolteachers
21st-century Australian politicians