Barry Collier (politician)
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Barry Collier OAM |
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| Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Miranda |
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In office 27 March 1999 – 4 March 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Ron Phillips |
| Succeeded by | Graham Annesley |
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In office 19 October 2013 – 6 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Graham Annesley |
| Succeeded by | Eleni Petinos |
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Barry Joseph Collier 5 December 1949 Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Jeanette |
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University of New South Wales University of Sydney |
| Occupation | Teacher, solicitor and barrister |
Barry Joseph Collier OAM (born 5 December 1949) is an Australian politician. He was an Australian 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.
From 1973 to 1989, Collier was a high school economics teacher with the NSW Education Department. During his teaching career, Collier also served as NSW economics curriculum consultant and chairman of the NSW Higher School Certificate Economics Examination Committee. He wrote three textbooks and accompanying workbooks for high school students in Years 11 and 12 entitled Introducing Economics, published by Jacaranda-Wiley.
From 1989 to 1999, he practiced criminal law as a solicitor with both the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Legal Aid Commission of NSW, and later as a barrister in private practice. As a Legal Aid solicitor, Collier appeared in the 1993 ABC Television reality local court documentary So Help Me God.
Collier was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in the 1999 NSW state election.
From 2007 until his retirement from Parliament in 2011, he served as Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Attorney General & Minister for Justice, Assisting the Minister for Corrective Services, Assisting the Treasurer and Assisting the Minister for Ports & Waterways.
Collier made over 700 speeches in the NSW Legislative Assembly.
Collier is notable for switching from the right faction to the left faction in 2005 and causing the Government to back down on a proposal to resurrect the long-standing plan to build the Southern Freeway (or F6) through his electorate. He returned to the right faction of the Labor Party in September 2008.
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