Barry Joseph Collier is an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2015,representing the electorate of Miranda. Collier retired at the 2011 election,but contested and won a 2013 by-election when his successor,Liberal Graham Annesley,resigned. Collier then retired a second time at the 2015 election. In September 2016,Collier was elected to Sutherland Shire Council,serving as a Councillor representing B Ward.
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.
Michael John Daley is an Australian politician and has been the Attorney-General of New South Wales since 28 March 2023. He was previously the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of New South Wales from November 2018 to March 2019. He is the member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Maroubra for the Australian Labor Party since 2005. Daley is aligned with the Labor Right faction.
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.
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.
Wilfred George Petersen was an Australian politician,affiliated with the Labor Party and elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
George Newhouse is an Australian human rights lawyer and a former local councillor. He is the principal solicitor of the National Justice Project,a human rights and social justice legal service,and currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Macquarie University. and at the University of Technology Sydney.
Lynda Jane Voltz is an Australian politician. She is a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly,representing Auburn since 2019.
Cannabis is a plant used in Australia for recreational,medicinal and industrial purposes. In 2019,36% of Australians over the age of fourteen years had used cannabis in their lifetime and 11.6% had used cannabis in the last 12 months.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) people in the Australian state of New South Wales have most of the same rights and responsibilities as non-LGBT people.
Luke Aquinas Foley is a former Australian Labor Party politician who served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of New South Wales from 2015 to 2018. Foley was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 19 June 2010 until his resignation to contest the Legislative Assembly seat of Auburn at the 2015 New South Wales election. Foley resigned after it was alleged that he had indecently assaulted an ABC journalist. Foley denies the allegations.
Sophie Cotsis is an Australian politician and current New South Wales Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Work Health and Safety in the Minns ministry since April 2023. She was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 7 September 2010 to 16 September 2016,when she resigned in order to contest a by-election for the Legislative Assembly seat of Canterbury.
David Martin Shoebridge is an Australian politician and former barrister. He is a member of the Australian Greens and was elected to the Senate as the party's lead candidate in New South Wales at the 2022 federal election,to a term beginning on 1 July 2022. He previously served in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2010 to 2022 and on the Woollahra Municipal Council from 2004 to 2012.
The McGowen ministry was the 34th ministry of the New South Wales Government,and was led by the 18th Premier,James McGowen. This ministry marks the first Labor ministry in the state of New South Wales.
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.
John Edward Graham is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since October 2016 and has been Special Minister of State and Minister for Roads,the Arts,Music,the Night-time Economy,Jobs and Tourism since 2023.
Anthony Gerard Damien D'Adam is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2019,representing the Australian Labor Party.
The Parliament of New South Wales passed the Roads and Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 on 1 April 2022. The legislation amended the Roads Act 1993 and the Crimes Act 1900 to create new criminal penalties for protest activities. The incumbent Liberal-National Coalition Government introduced the Bill on 30 March 2022 to curtail the use of Non-violent direct action tactics by climate change protestors. The Parliament passed the Bill in the context of repeated disruptions to peak hour traffic on the Spit Bridge by Fireproof Australia activists and the use of Lock-on devices at Port Botany and in the Hunter Region by Blockade Australia. The NSW Greens and Animal Justice Party attempted to Filibuster the Bill in the New South Wales Legislative Council;however,the Government ultimately passed the legislation with the support of the NSW Labor Opposition.
The 2027 New South Wales state election will be held no earlier than 30 January 2027 and no later than 27 March 2027,to elect the 59th Parliament of New South Wales,including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council. The election will be conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC).
The Legalising Cannabis Bill 2023 is a bill introduced to the Australian Senate on 10 August 2023,by Senator David Shoebridge,a Senator for the Australian Greens in New South Wales (NSW). The bill is similar to state legislation introduced in the past as it aims to legalise the sale,production and use of recreational cannabis,however this would provide for legalisation at a federal level. State legislation introduced includes:
