Dianne Virginia Judge is a former Australian politician,who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Strathfield for the Labor Party from 2003 until 2011.
The Division of Parramatta is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the locality of Parramatta. The name Parramatta has been sourced to an Aboriginal word for the area. The Darug people had lived in the area for many generations,and regarded the area as a food bowl,rich in food from the river and forests. They called the area Baramada or Burramatta ("Parramatta") which means "the place where the eels lie down".
Carmel Mary Tebbutt is an Australian former politician. She was the Labor Party Member for the former seat of Marrickville in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly until the 2015 election and was Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 2008 to 2011. She was also Minister for Health in the Keneally Government. She is the first woman to hold the position of Deputy Premier of New South Wales.
Government in Australia is elected by universal suffrage and Australian women participate in all levels of the government of the nation. In 1902,the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia became the first nation on earth to enact equal suffrage,enabling women to both vote and stand for election alongside men Women have been represented in Australian state parliaments since 1921,and in the Federal Parliament since 1943. The first female leader of an Australian State or Territory was elected in 1989,and the first female Prime Minister took office in 2010. In 2019 for the first time,a majority of members of the Australian Senate were women. At the time of its foundation in 1901,and again from 1952 to 2022,Australia has had a female monarch as ceremonial Head of State,while the first female Governor of an Australian State was appointed in 1991,and the first female Governor-General of Australia took office in 2008.
Tanya Rachelle Gadiel,néeBarber,a former Australian politician,was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 2003–2011,representing the electorate of Parramatta for the Labor Party. During her term in Parliament,Gadiel was Deputy Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in the Kristina Keneally Labor Government. On 8 December 2010,Gadiel announced that she would not contest the 2011 state election.
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New South Wales—Legislative AssemblyGranville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's West. It is currently represented by Julia Finn of the Labor Party.
Eric Michael Roozendaal,a former Australian politician,was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council,serving between 2004 and 2013. He is a former General Secretary of the Labor Party. Roozendaal was the Treasurer of New South Wales,Minister of State and Regional Development,Minister of Ports and Waterways,Minister for the Illawarra,and Special Minister of State in the Rees and Keneally governments.
Francesco Ernest Sartor is a former Australian politician who served as New South Wales Minister for Climate Change and the Environment and Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer) between 2009 and 2011. He was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Rockdale for the Labor Party between 2003 and 2011. Sartor has previously been Minister for Planning,Redfern Waterloo and the Arts,and Minister for Water and Utilities in the Iemma and Carr governments. Before being elected to the New South Wales Parliament,Sartor was the second longest-serving Lord Mayor of Sydney,after Clover Moore,having held the post for nearly 12 years from September 1991 to March 2003. Sartor retired from politics at the 2011 state election.
Kristina Marie Kerscher Keneally is an American-born Australian politician who served as the first female Premier of New South Wales from 2009 to 2011 and was later a Labor Senator for New South Wales from February 2018 until April 2022. She resigned from the Senate to contest the House of Representatives seat of Fowler,but was unsuccessful. From 2019 to 2022 she served as Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate,Shadow Minister for Home Affairs,and Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship.
Barbara Mazzel Anne Perry is an Australian former politician,representing Auburn for the Labor Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2015. Perry was the first woman of Lebanese origin to be elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Steven James Robert Whan is an Australian politician who has served as Minister for Skills,TAFE and Tertiary Education since 2023. He has represented the electoral district of Monaro in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Labor Party since 2023,after previously representing the seat from 2003 until 2011. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 2011 to 2015. Whan served as Minister of Emergency Services,Minister for Small Business and Minister for Rural Affairs in the Rees and Keneally ministries from 2009 to 2011. Whan lives in Queanbeyan with his wife and two children.
Verity Helen Firth is an Australian university executive and former politician. She is the Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Technology Sydney. She was the chief executive officer of the Public Education Foundation in Australia.
David Andrew Campbell,an Australian former politician,was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Keira between 1999 and 2011. A former Lord Mayor of Wollongong,Campbell was appointed Minister for Police from 2 April 2007 to 5 September 2008,as well as Minister for Transport from 8 September 2008 until his resignation on 20 May 2010,with both positions as part of the NSW Government. On 28 September 2010,Campbell announced that he would not seek Labor endorsement for re-election at the 2011 NSW election.
Nathan Rees is an Australian former politician who served as the 41st Premier of New South Wales and parliamentary leader of the New South Wales Labor Party from September 2008 to December 2009. Rees was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Toongabbie for Labor from 2007 to 2015.
The 2011 New South Wales state election held on Saturday,26 March 2011. The 16-year-incumbent Labor Party government led by Premier Kristina Keneally was defeated in a landslide by the Liberal–National Coalition opposition led by Barry O'Farrell.
Antoine "Tony" Issa,an Australian politician,was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Granville for the Liberal Party from 2011 until the 2015 election when he lost the seat to Labor's Julia Finn.
Geoffrey Lee is a former Australian politician. He served as the Minister for Corrections in the second Perrottet ministry between December 2021 and March 2023. He has previously served as the Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education in the second Berejiklian and Perrottet ministries between April 2019 and December 2021. Lee was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Parramatta for the Liberal Party since 2011 until his retirement in 2023.
The Rees ministry was the 91st ministry of the Government of New South Wales,and was led by the 41st Premier Nathan Rees.
The Keneally ministry is the 92nd ministry of the Government of New South Wales,and was led by the 42nd Premier Kristina Keneally.
Sydney Metro was a proposed rapid transit railway network in Sydney,intended to connect the central business district (CBD) with the inner and outer city suburbs Rouse Hill,Westmead,Malabar and lower North Shore. Initially proposed in 2008 as ‘Metro Link’,the plan was modified and renamed later that year. After half a billion dollars was spent on planning,property acquisitions and a tender process,it was cancelled in 2010.
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