John Bernard "Jack" Mundey was an Australian communist,union and environmental activist. He came to prominence during the 1970s for leading the New South Wales Builders' Labourers Federation (BLF) in the famous green bans,whereby the BLF led a successful campaign to protect the built and natural environment of Sydney from excessive and inappropriate development. Mundey was the patron of the Historic Houses Association of Australia.
Morris Iemma is a former Australian politician who was the 40th Premier of New South Wales. He served from 3 August 2005 to 5 September 2008. From Sydney,Iemma attended the University of Sydney and the University of Technology,Sydney. A member of the Labor Party,he was first elected to the Parliament of New South Wales at the 1991 state election,having previously worked as a trade union official. From 1999,Iemma was a minister in the third and fourth ministries led by Bob Carr. He replaced Carr as premier and Leader of the New South Wales Labor Party in 2005,following Carr's resignation. Iemma led Labor to victory at the 2007 state election,albeit with a slightly reduced majority. He resigned as premier in 2008,after losing the support of caucus,and left parliament shortly after,triggering a by-election. He was replaced as premier by Nathan Rees.
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.
John Joseph Della Bosca is an Australian former politician,representing the Labor Party in the New South Wales Legislative Council. From 1999 to 2009,Della Bosca served a range of ministerial portfolios,including Minister for Health and Minister for the Central Coast in the NSW State Government.
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.
Kristina Marie Kerscher Keneally is an American-born Australian politician who was 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. She previously served as the first female Premier of New South Wales from 2009 to 2011.
Rose Butler Jackson MLC is an Australian Labor Party politician serving as a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 8 May 2019. Since 5 April 2023,she has been serving in the Minns ministry as Minister for Water,Minister for Housing,Minister for Homelessness,Minister for Mental Health,Minister for Youth,and Minister for the North Coast. She is the former Assistant General Secretary of NSW Labor.
Philip Christian Koperberg,is the Chairman of the New South Wales Emergency Management Committee,responsible for advising the New South Wales government on emergency response strategies,since 2011.
Paul Bernard Gibson,is an Australian former politician and former rugby league footballer. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly,and represented the electorates of Blacktown between 1999 and 2011 and the electorate of Londonderry from 1988 to 1999,for the Labor Party.
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.
Verity Nancy Burgmann is Adjunct Professor of Politics in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne,where she is Director of the Reason in Revolt website. In 2013 she was Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Visiting Professor of Australian Studies in the Institut für Englische Philologie at the Freie Universität Berlin.
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.
Meredith Anne Burgmann is an Australian politician and Labor Party member and a former President of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
Elections to the 55th Parliament of New South Wales were 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.
The Digital Education Revolution (DER) was an Australian government–funded educational reform program,promised by then prime minister of Australia Kevin Rudd during the launch of his 2007 Australian federal election campaign in Brisbane. It was officially launched in late 2008,with the first deployments announced by then Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Education,Employment and Workplace Relations,Julia Gillard and then New South Wales counterpart,Verity Firth. The first deployment took place at Fairvale High School in August that year.
Jamie Thomas Parker is an Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Balmain for the Greens from 2011 until his retirement in 2023. Parker was the first Green to represent his party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
The Rees ministry was the 91st ministry of the Government of New South Wales,and was led by the 41st Premier Nathan Rees.
The Iemma ministry (2007–08) or Second Iemma ministry is the 90th ministry of the Government of New South Wales,and was led by the 40th Premier Morris Iemma. It was the second and subsequent of two occasions when Iemma was Premier.
An election for the leadership of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party,the party of opposition in the New South Wales,was held on 5 January 2015. The election was triggered following the resignation of Opposition Leader John Robertson on 23 December 2014.
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.
