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Linda Scott | |
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Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney | |
In office 17 September 2018 –9 September 2019 | |
Lord Mayor | Clover Moore |
Preceded by | Jess Miller |
Succeeded by | Jess Scully |
Councillor of the City of Sydney | |
Assumed office 8 September 2012 | |
Personal details | |
Political party | Labor |
Website | www |
Linda Scott is a Labor Party Councillor on the City of Sydney Council,first elected in 2012 and re-elected in 2016 and 2021. She served as Deputy Lord Mayor between September 2018 and September 2019.
In November 2020 Councillor Scott was elected unopposed as the President of the Australian Local Government Association,having been vice president since November 2018 and a board member since 2017. Linda serves on the National Federation Reform Council with Australia’s Prime Minister,Premiers and Treasurers,and a range of National Cabinet subcommittees.
Scott previously served as the first female President of Local Government NSW from 2017 to 2021. She also serves as the Chair of CareSuper,an industry superannuation fund with more than 200,000 members,having served as a Director since 2018.
Scott graduated with first class honours in Psychology from the University of New South Wales. She worked at the University of Sydney and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.
Scott won Labor's first community preselection as Labor's candidate for Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney in the 2012 NSW Local Government Elections. [1]
She has campaigned for the preservation of and increase in inner city green spaces and burying cables underground to enable more kerbside space to plant more trees. [2] [3] [4] She is a supporter of public amenities. [5] [6] [7] [8] Scott has campaigned for greater housing affordability and for those in public housing. [9] [10]
Scott moved to have signage identifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait heritage names installed across the City of Sydney. [11] Scott also opposed the sale of heritage public housing in Millers Point,Dawes Point and The Rocks,and campaigned to preserve industrial heritage. [12] [13] [14] [15]
Scott has argued for significant investment in new early education centres,more before-and-after-school care and public libraries. [16] [17] [18] [19] Scott also supported a campaign to build a giant rainbow flag in recognition of the LGBT community in Sydney's Taylor Square,which saw the permanent monument erected in 2012. [20] [21] Scott is a supporter of live music and street art. [22] [23]
In December 2017,Scott was elected to succeed Keith Rhoades as President of Local Government NSW,becoming the first female and first Labor president of the organisation since the merger of the Local Government Association and the Local Shires Association in 2013. [24]
On 17 September 2018,Scott was elected to serve a single term as Deputy Lord Mayor. [25]
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