Paul Scully is an Australian politician who has been a member of the

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since 12 November 2016, representing the seat of

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for the Labor Party, since the

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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 The University of Wollongong (abbreviated as UOW) is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney. As of 2017, the university had an enrolment of ...

. He is married to Alison Byrnes, the member for

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since the 2022 federal election.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scully, Paul 21st-century Australian politicians Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Living people Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Academic staff of the University of Wollongong Year of birth missing (living people)