Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 2007-2011

This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council
New South Wales Legislative Council
The New South Wales Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is referred to as the lower house and the Council as...

, as elected at the 2003

New South Wales state election, 2003

Elections to the 53rd Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday 22 March 2003. All seats in the Legislative Assembly and half the seats in the Legislative Council were up for election...

and 2007 state 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 will not face re-election until 2015.

Name	Party	Term in office
Hon John Ajaka John Ajaka John George Ajaka is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2007. He is the first Liberal Lebanese Australian member of an Australian parliament. Ajaka currently serves as parliamentary secretary for Transport and...	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	2007–present
Hon Robert Borsak Robert Borsak Robert Borsak is an Australian voluntary conservation hunter, recreational hunter and shooter and is now an elected MP of the Shooters and Fishers Party...	Shooters and Fishers	2010–present
Hon Robert Brown Robert Leslie Brown Robert Leslie Brown is an Australian politician. He has been a Shooters and Fishers Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since May 2006, when he filled a casual vacancy sparked by the retirement of long-time party leader John Tingle...	Shooters Party/Shooters and Fishers	2006–present
Hon Tony Catanzariti Tony Catanzariti Antonio Catanzariti is an Australian politician and citrus farmer. Catanzariti represented the Australian Labor Party in the New South Wales Legislative Council from the 2003 election until his retirement...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	2003–2011
Ian Cohen Ian Cohen Ian Cohen is an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1995 to 2011, for The Greens...	Greens Greens New South Wales The Greens New South Wales is the state Greens party in New South Wales. It is a member party of the Australian Greens. The Greens NSW have one member in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly , five members in the New South Wales Legislative Council...	1995–2011
Hon David Clarke David Clarke (Australian politician) David John Clarke, an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council representing the Liberal Party of Australia since 2003. and is considered to have conservative Christian views.-Personal life:...	Liberal	2003–present
Hon Rick Colless Rick Colless Richard Hargrave Colless is an Australian politician and National Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Colless has been a member of the Council since 30 August 2000 and is serving his second term in that Council...	National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	2000–present
Hon Michael Costa	Labor	2001–2008
Hon Sophie Cotsis Sophie Cotsis Sophie Cotsis MLC, is an Australian politician. She is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 7 September 2010, representing the Australian Labor Party....	Labor	2010–present
Hon Catherine Cusack Catherine Cusack (politician) Catherine Eileen Cusack is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, representing the Liberal Party. She was first elected as an opposition member on 22 March 2003 and was re-elected in 2011 when her party won government. Her term is due to expire on 1 March 2019. She is married to...	Liberal	2003–present
Hon John Della Bosca John Della Bosca John Joseph Della Bosca is a former Australian politician, representing the Australian Labor Party in the New South Wales Legislative Council...	Labor	1999–2010
Hon Greg Donnelly	Labor	2005–present
Cate Faehrmann Cate Faehrmann Cate Faehrmann is a Greens Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, environmental activist and former director of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW. She was also a board member of the progressive political organisation GetUp and the public interest environmental law firm, the...	Greens	2010–present
Hon Amanda Fazio Amanda Fazio Amanda Ruth Fazio MLC, an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council representing the Australian Labor Party...	Labor	2000–present
Hon Marie Ficarra Marie Ficarra Marie Ann Ficarra MLC is an Australian politician who has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 24 March 2007. She was previously a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Electoral District of Georges River, but was defeated...	Liberal	2007–present
Hon Luke Foley Luke Foley Luke Aquinas Foley , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 10 June 2010 representing the Australian Labor Party...	Labor	2010-present
Hon Mike Gallacher Mike Gallacher Michael Joseph Gallacher MLC, an Australian politician, is the Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Minister for the Hunter region and Vice-President of the Executive Council in the O'Farrell-Stoner Liberal/National coalitition government since 2011...	Liberal	1996–present
Hon Jenny Gardiner Jenny Gardiner Jennifer Ann Gardiner is an Australian politician and National Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Gardiner has been a member of the Council since 25 May 1991 and is serving her third term in that Council...	National	1991–present
Hon Duncan Gay Duncan Gay Duncan John Gay is an Australian parliamentarian and New South Wales Minister for Roads and Ports. He is also Leader of Government Business in the New South Wales Legislative Council for the NSW Liberals & Nationals Government. -Early life:...	National	1988–present
Hon Kayee Griffin Kayee Griffin Kayee Frances Griffin is an Australian politician and former Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, serving from 2003 until her retirement in 2011....	Labor	2003–2011
Sylvia Hale Sylvia Hale Sylvia Phyllis Hale is a social justice, community and environmental campaigner, and a former Australian politician. She was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2003 to 2010 for the Greens....	Greens	2003–2010
Hon Don Harwin Don Harwin Donald Thomas Harwin MLC , an Australian politician, is the President of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2011. He is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council representing the Liberal Party of Australia since 27 March 1999.-Early years and background:Harwin was born to...	Liberal	1999–present
Hon John Hatzistergos John Hatzistergos John Hatzistergos is a former Australian politician who was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council representing the Australian Labor Party between 1999 and 2011...	Labor	1999–2011
Dr John Kaye	Greens	2007–present
Hon Tony Kelly	Labor	1987–1988, 1997–2011
Hon Trevor Khan Trevor Khan Trevor John Khan is an Australian politician and National Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Khan has been a member of the Council since 24 March 2007....	National	2007–present
Hon Charlie Lynn Charlie Lynn Charlie John Stuart Lynn is an Australian politician and Liberal Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Lynn has been an MLC since 19 October 1995.-Personal history:...	Liberal	1995–present
Hon Ian Macdonald Ian Macdonald (New South Wales politician) Ian Michael Macdonald BA MLC , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1988 to 2010 representing the Australian Labor Party...	Labor	1988–2010
Hon Matthew Mason-Cox Matthew Mason-Cox Matthew Ryan Mason-Cox is an Australian politician and a Liberal Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 28 September 2006...	Liberal	2006–present
Hon Shaoquett Moselmane Shaoquett Moselmane Shaoquett Moselmane MLC , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2009, representing the Australian Labor Party.-Early years and background:...	Labor	2009–present
Rev Hon Dr Gordon Moyes Gordon Moyes Gordon Keith Mackenzie Moyes AC is an Australian Christian evangelist, broadcaster and former politician.-Early life and career:...	Christian Democrats Christian Democratic Party (Australia) The Christian Democratic Party is a right-wing political party in Australia. Its leader is Fred Nile, a Congregational Church minister and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.-Formation:... /Independent/Family First Family First Party The Family First Party is a socially conservative minor political party in Australia. It has two members in the South Australian Legislative Council...	2002–2011
Rev Hon Fred Nile Fred Nile Frederick John "Fred" Nile is an Australian politician and clergyman. Nile has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 1981, except for a period in 2004 when he resigned to contest the Australian Senate at the 2004 federal election...	Christian Democrats	1981–2004, 2004–present
Hon Eddie Obeid Eddie Obeid Edward Moses Obeid OAM , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served between 1991 and 2011, representing the Australian Labor Party. He was the Minister for Fisheries and the Minister for Mineral Resources from 1999–2003...	Labor	1991–2011
Hon Robyn Parker Robyn Parker Robyn Mary Parker MP , an Australian politician, is the New South Wales Minister for Environment and Minister for Heritage in the O'Farrell-Stoner Liberal/National coalitition government...	Liberal	2003–2011
Hon Melinda Pavey Melinda Pavey Melinda Jane Pavey MLC is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2002, representing the National Party of Australia. A former party staffer, the Coffs Harbour businesswoman attracted attention when she became the party's youngest New South...	National	2002–present
Hon Greg Pearce Greg Pearce (politician) Greg Pearce BA, LLB MLC, an Australian politician, is the Minister for Finance and Services and the Minister for Illawarra in the New South Wales Government...	Liberal	2000–present
Hon Peter Primrose Peter Primrose Peter Thomas Primrose is an Australian politician.He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 1996 and was also the President of the Legislative Council....	Labor	1996–present
Lee Rhiannon Lee Rhiannon Lee Rhiannon , an Australian politician, is a Senator for New South Wales, elected at the 2010 federal election, representing the Australian Greens...	Greens	1999–2010
Hon John Robertson John Robertson (New South Wales politician) John Cameron Robertson MP , an Australian politician, is the Leader of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales and the Leader of the Opposition. Robertson is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Blacktown for Labor since 2011...	Labor	2008–2011
Hon Christine Robertson Christine Robertson Christine Mary Robertson is an Australian politician and former Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, serving from 2003 until her retirement in 2011....	Labor	2003–2011
Hon Eric Roozendaal Eric Roozendaal Eric Roozendaal is an Australian politician, serving as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2004. He is a former General Secretary of the Australian Labor Party....	Labor	2004–present
Hon Penny Sharpe Penny Sharpe Penelope Gail Sharpe is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since October 2005, when she filled a casual vacancy caused by the decision of Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt to move to the Legislative Assembly...	Labor	2005–present
David Shoebridge David Shoebridge David Shoebridge is an Australian politician. He has been a Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since September 2010, when he was appointed to replace outgoing MLC Sylvia Hale....	Greens	2010–present
Hon Roy Smith Roy Smith (Australian politician) Roy Anthony Smith was an Australian politician, and a former manager of the New South Wales Sporting Shooters Association of Australia. He was a member of the Shooters Party, and at the 2007 state election was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council...	Shooters Party/Shooters and Fishers	2007–2010
Hon Henry Tsang Henry Tsang Henry Tsang OAM is an Australian architect, politician and formerly an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Tsang was a member of the Council from 27 March 1999 until his resignation effective 3 December 2009...	Labor	1999–2009
Hon Mick Veitch Mick Veitch Michael Stanley "Mick" Veitch is an Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Veitch has been a member of the Council since 24 March 2007.-Early years:...	Labor	2007–present
Hon Lynda Voltz Lynda Voltz Lynda Voltz is an Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Voltz has been a member of the Council since March 2007....	Labor	2007–present
Hon Ian West Ian West (Australian politician) Ian William West is an Australian politician and former Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, serving from 2000 until his retirement in 2011....	Labor	2000–2011
Hon Helen Westwood Helen Westwood Helen Westwood is an Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Westwood has been a member of the Council since 24 March 2007.-Personal and early life:...	Labor	2007–present

Labor MLC Michael Costa resigned on 22 September 2008. Unions NSW

Labor Council of New South Wales

The Labor Council of New South Wales is a representative body of Trade union organisations in the State of New South Wales, Australia. As of 2005 there are 67 unions and 8 Rural and Regional Trades & Labor Councils affiliated to the Labor Council, representing 800,000 workers in NSW...

secretary John Robertson

John Robertson (New South Wales politician)

John Cameron Robertson MP , an Australian politician, is the Leader of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales and the Leader of the Opposition. Robertson is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Blacktown for Labor since 2011...

was nominated by Labor as his successor, and was formally appointed at a joint sitting of parliament on 28 October.

Christian Democratic Party MLC Gordon Moyes

Gordon Moyes

Gordon Keith Mackenzie Moyes AC is an Australian Christian evangelist, broadcaster and former politician.-Early life and career:...

was expelled from the party in March 2009 and subsequently sat as an independent. In November 2009 he joined the Family First Party

Family First Party

The Family First Party is a socially conservative minor political party in Australia. It has two members in the South Australian Legislative Council...

Labor MLC Henry Tsang

Henry Tsang

Henry Tsang OAM is an Australian architect, politician and formerly an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Tsang was a member of the Council from 27 March 1999 until his resignation effective 3 December 2009...

resigned effective 3 December 2009. Former Mayor

Mayor

In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

of the City of Rockdale

City of Rockdale

The City of Rockdale is a Local Government Area in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The city centre is located 12 kilometres south-south-west of the Sydney central business district, on the western shores of Botany Bay...

Shaoquett Moselmane

Shaoquett Moselmane MLC , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2009, representing the Australian Labor Party.-Early years and background:...

was nominated by Labor as his successor, and was formally appointed at a joint sitting of parliament on 3 December.

Labor MLC Ian Macdonald

Ian Macdonald (New South Wales politician)

Ian Michael Macdonald BA MLC , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1988 to 2010 representing the Australian Labor Party...

resigned on 7 June 2010. Assistant general secretary of the NSW branch of the ALP Luke Foley

Luke Foley

Luke Aquinas Foley , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 10 June 2010 representing the Australian Labor Party...

was nominated by Labor as his successor, and was formally appointed at a joint sitting of pariliament on 10 June 2010.

Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon

Lee Rhiannon

Lee Rhiannon , an Australian politician, is a Senator for New South Wales, elected at the 2010 federal election, representing the Australian Greens...

resigned on 19 July 2010 to contest a seat for the Federal Senate

Australian Senate

The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...

at the 2010 election. She was replaced by former Director of the NSW Conservation Council Cate Faehrmann

Cate Faehrmann

Cate Faehrmann is a Greens Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, environmental activist and former director of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW. She was also a board member of the progressive political organisation GetUp and the public interest environmental law firm, the...

on 7 September 2010.

Labor MLC John Della Bosca

John Della Bosca

John Joseph Della Bosca is a former Australian politician, representing the Australian Labor Party in the New South Wales Legislative Council...

resigned on 30 July 2010. Sophie Cotsis

Sophie Cotsis

Sophie Cotsis MLC, is an Australian politician. She is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 7 September 2010, representing the Australian Labor Party....

was appointed his successor on 7 September 2010.

Shooters and Fishers MLC Roy Smith

Roy Smith (Australian politician)

Roy Anthony Smith was an Australian politician, and a former manager of the New South Wales Sporting Shooters Association of Australia. He was a member of the Shooters Party, and at the 2007 state election was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council...

died on 30 July 2010. Robert Borsak

Robert Borsak

Robert Borsak is an Australian voluntary conservation hunter, recreational hunter and shooter and is now an elected MP of the Shooters and Fishers Party...

was appointed as his successor on 7 September 2010.

Greens MLC Sylvia Hale

Sylvia Hale

Sylvia Phyllis Hale is a social justice, community and environmental campaigner, and a former Australian politician. She was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2003 to 2010 for the Greens....

resigned on 6 September 2010. Hale had already announced her retirement at the coming election; her preselected replacement David Shoebridge

David Shoebridge

David Shoebridge is an Australian politician. He has been a Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since September 2010, when he was appointed to replace outgoing MLC Sylvia Hale....

was appointed as her successor on 7 September 2010.

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