Linda Burney

Linda Burney

Linda Jean Burney (born 1957) is an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

Burney is of Wiradjuri descent and grew up in Whitton, near Leeton. She obtained a Diploma of Teaching from the then Mitchell College of Advanced Education and she began teaching at Lethbridge Park public school in western Sydney in 1979. She has been involved since the mid-1980s in the New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group and has been involved in the development and implementation of the first Aboriginal education policy in Australia. [cite web
title =Burney, Linda Jean (c. 1957 - )
publisher =Australian Women
url =http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE1256b.htm
accessdate = 2007-02-26 ] Burney was later the Director-General of the New South Wales Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [cite web
title =Linda Burney
publisher =University of Western Sydney
url =http://www.uws.edu.au/about/university/governance/boardoftrustees/boardmembership/lburney
accessdate = 2007-02-26 ] In 2006 she was elected National Vice President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

Burney was elected as the ALP member for Canterbury in 2003. In her inaugural speech to the Legislative Assembly she said, referring to the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) Act, 1967:quote|For the first ten years of my life, like all indigenous people at that time, I was not a citizen of this country. We existed under the Flora and Fauna Act of New South Wales. [cite web
title =Linda Burney's Inaugural Speech To Parliament
publisher =NSW/ACT Independent Education Union
url =http://www.ieu.asn.au/issues/general/51.html
accessdate = 2007-02-26 ] Currently Burney is Minister for Fair Trading, Minister for Youth, and Minister for Volunteering [cite web
title =Ms Linda Jean Burney, HonDEd, DipEd MP
work =Members of Parliament
publisher =Parliament of New South Wales
url =http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/Parlment/Members.nsf/d890a06557517cedca256e700008765e/8d837093fe30ec35ca256cfa0011aa15!OpenDocument
accessdate = 2007-04-10 ] - the first Aboriginal person to be appointed as a minister in NSW. [cite web
title =NIT
publisher =National Indigenous Times
url =http://www.nit.com.au/News/story.aspx?id=10322!OpenDocument
accessdate = 2007-04-10 ]

Her partner, until his death in May 2006, was Rick Farley.

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