Franca Arena

Last updated

  1. "Joseph ARENA Death Notice - Sydney, New South Wales | Sydney Morning Herald".
  2. "My Life with Joe".
  3. "Gay Group Plans 'Outing' For NSW Politician", Sonya Voumard, The Age , 9 August 1991.
  4. "Enhancing Aboriginal Political Representation" (PDF). Parliament of New South Wales .
  5. the Standing Committee on Social Issues (November 1998). "Enhancing Aboriginal Political Representation" (PDF). Parliament of New South Wales .
  6. "Error" (PDF). Parliament of New South Wales .
  7. "Suicide of sex-row QC shocks Australia". Independent.co.uk . 6 November 1996.
  8. "Arena defiant in face of expulsion calls", Jonathan Este, The Australian , 6 November 1996.
  9. "Conduct of the Honourable Franca Arena MLC (Inquiry)".
  10. Standing Committee on Parliamentary Privilege and Ethics (June 1998). Report on Inquiry into the Conduct of the Honourable Franca Arena MLC (PDF). Vol. 1. Parliament of New South Wales. ISBN   0-7313-8822-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 May 2011.
  11. "Paedophile chaser concedes defeat", Trudy Harris, The Australian, 14 April 1999.
  12. Hansard transcript, 16 September 1998.
  13. Franca Arena, "Mother and sons", edited extract from Franca: My Story, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 April 2002; Retrieved 13 April 2013

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 2003–2007</span>

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served in the 54th Parliament were elected at the 2003 and 2007 elections. As members serve eight-year terms, half of the Council was elected in 2003 and did not face re-election in 2007, and the members elected in 2007 did not face re-election until 2011. The President was Meredith Burgmann.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1999–2003</span>

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served in the 54th Parliament were elected at the 1995 and 1999 elections. As members serve eight-year terms, half of the Council was elected in 1995 and did not face re-election in 1999, and the members elected in 1999 did not face re-election until 2007. The President was Meredith Burgmann.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Penny Sharpe</span> Australian politician (born 1970)

Penelope Gail Sharpe is an Australian politician. She has served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2005, representing the Labor Party. Since March 2023, Sharpe is the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council and the Vice-President of the Executive Council since Labor's election victory in March 2023, having previously served as leader of the opposition in the Legislative Council between 2021 and 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lee Rhiannon</span> Australian politician (born 1951)

Lee Rhiannon is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales between July 2011 and August 2018. She was elected at the 2010 federal election, representing the Australian Greens. Prior to her election to the Federal Parliament, Rhiannon was a Greens NSW member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1999 and 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ian Cohen</span> Australian politician

Ian Cohen is a former Australian politician and member of the Greens New South Wales. Cohen was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1995 as its first Green member. He retired from parliament in 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1995–1999</span>

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served in the 51st Parliament were affected by the 1991 referendum. The Council consisted of 42 members, 6 elected in 1988, 15 elected in 1991 and 21 elected in 1995. As members serve eight-year terms, half of the Council did not face re-election in 1995, and the members elected in 1995 did not face re-election until 2003. The President was Max Willis until 29 June 1998 and then Virginia Chadwick.

Francis Neville (Frank) Arkell was an Australian politician. Arkell was a long-serving Lord Mayor of Wollongong and an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Wollongong. In 1998 Arkell was violently murdered in his home, aged 62 years by Mark Valera. At the time of his death, he was under police investigation for child sex offences. Continued investigation largely cleared Arkell of wrongdoing, with police concluding that a tape that supposedly recorded Arkell making sexual advances to a teenager had in fact been faked by former Wollongong mayor and pedophile Tony Bevan as blackmail. Arkell was a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy, according to his biography on the Parliament of NSW site.

Deirdre Mary Grusovin was a Labor member of the New South Wales Parliament for over twenty five years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1988–1991</span>

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served in the 49th Parliament were elected at the 1981, 1984 and 1988 elections. Members served for three terms of the Legislative Assembly, which, as a result of the 1981 referendum meant the maximum term was twelve years. The 15 members elected in 1981 did not face re-election until 1992, the 15 members elected in 1984 did not face re-election until 1996 and the 15 members elected in 1988 did not face re-election until 2000. The terms of members were cut short by the 1991 referendum which reduced the term to two terms of the Legislative Assembly, a maximum of 8 years. The President was Johno Johnson.

Marie Ann Ficarra is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2007 to 2015. She was previously a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Georges River, but was defeated during the landslide election of 1999. She was the Shadow Minister for the Environment for the New South Wales Opposition.

Jennifer Ann Gardiner is an Australian politician and former Nationals member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1991 to 2015.

Kayee Frances Griffin is an Australian politician and former Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, serving from 2003 until her retirement in 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helen Westwood</span> Australian politician

Helen Mary Westwood AM is a former Australian politician and Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Westwood was a member of the Council from 2007 to 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Meredith Burgmann</span> Australian politician

Meredith Anne Burgmann is an Australian politician and Labor Party member and a former President of the New South Wales Legislative Council.

There have been 60 women in the New South Wales Legislative Council since its establishment in 1856. Women have had the right to stand as a candidate since 1918; the Council introduced direct election in 1978.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 2011–2015</span>

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served in the 55th Parliament were elected at the 2007 and 2011 elections. As members serve eight-year terms, half of the Council was elected in 2007 and did not face re-election in 2011, and the members elected in 2011 did not face re-election until 2019. The President was Don Harwin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tania Mihailuk</span> Australian politician

Tania Mihailuk is an Australian politician, currently serving as member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2023. She served as mayor of the City of Bankstown from 2006 to 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2015 New South Wales state election</span> State election for New South Wales, Australia in March 2015

The 2015 New South Wales state election was held on Saturday 28 March 2015. Members were elected to all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly using optional preferential voting. Members were also elected to 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council using optional preferential proportional representation voting. The election was conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission.

Courtney Houssos is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since the 2015 state election. She is currently Minister for Finance, Domestic Manufacturing and Government Procurement and Natural Resources in the Minns government.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 2019–2023</span>

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served in the 57th Parliament were elected at the 2015 and 2019 elections. As members serve eight-year terms, half of the Council was elected in 2015 and did not face re-election in 2019, and the members elected in 2019 will not face re-election until 2027. The President was John Ajaka until March 2021 and then Matthew Mason-Cox from May 2021.

References

Public online resources

Franca Arena
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council

Newspapers