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Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Smithfield | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 23 June 1990 –27 March 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Janice Crosio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Ninos Khoshaba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Patrick Carl Scully 4 April 1957 Sydney,New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Labor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Ann Leaf[ citation needed ] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Macquarie University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Patrick Carl Scully (born 4 April 1957[ citation needed ]),is an Australian former politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party,he was a member of the Parliament of New South Wales for Smithfield from 1990 to 2007. Scully served as a minister in the New South Wales Government before his forced resignation on 25 October 2006. [1]
Scully was born in Sydney and educated at state schools.[ which? ] He graduated in law from Macquarie University,Sydney,and was active in the Labor Party since 1976. He practised as a solicitor between 1983 and 1990. [2]
Scully was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as member for the safe Labor seat of Smithfield at the 1990 by-election. [2] He is a member of the dominant right-wing faction of the New South Wales Labor Party.
Scully held the ministerial portfolios of small business and regional development (1995),state development (1995),public works and services (1995–97),roads and transport (1997–2003),housing (2003–05) and police (2005–06). [2]
Scully was considered a possible candidate to replace Bob Carr as Premier of New South Wales,and announced his intention to run for the position after Carr announced his resignation in July 2005. But he withdrew from the contest on 29 July when it became clear that health minister Morris Iemma had majority support in the Labor Caucus. [3] Although Scully publicly blamed the party machine for working against him,it was reported that some Labor MPs feared his record as transport minister during the Waterfall train disaster and other problems would have worked against the party at the next state election if he were leader. [4] [5]
Then,as police minister,it was revealed that he misled parliament over a report into the Cronulla riot,and as a result was ultimately asked to resign by the NSW Premier. [6]
Scully did not recontest Smithfield at the 2007 state election; [7] and claimed he rejected an offer from Labor to contest a federal seat. [8] In 2013,Scully testified that he was disappointed that Eddie Obeid,a powerbroker,had orchestrated Iemma becoming premier instead of Scully himself.
In 2017,Scully released his autobiography titled Setting the Record Straight.
In response to Scully's autobiography,journalist Emma Jones wrote an article for The Australian,“Revealed:secret plan to blow up the Harbour Bridge". [9] In this article,Jones discusses how Scully's autobiography makes mention of a secret plan from World War II,which explained how best to blow up the Sydney Harbour Bridge during an invasion from the North. Scully used the secret plan during his time in government,to assist in protecting the Sydney Harbour Bridge from terrorism after the September 11 terrorist attacks.[ citation needed ]
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