Joe Tripodi
| Joe Tripodi | |
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| Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Fairfield |
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In office 25 March 1995 – 4 March 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Geoff Irwin |
| Succeeded by | Guy Zangari |
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Joseph Guerino Tripodi 25 November 1967 Fairfield, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party (1983–2014) |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Tripodi |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Occupation | Economist and union organiser |
| Website | NSW Parliament profile |
Joseph Guerino "Joe" Tripodi (born 25 November 1967), a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Fairfield for the Australian Labor Party between 1995 and 2011. He was Minister for Finance, Infrastructure, Regulatory Reform, Ports and Waterways under former Premier Nathan Rees. He was a controversial figure during his time in politics, known as a factional boss, within the NSW Labor Right whose Terrigals sub-faction has twice dumped the sitting Labor Premier during 2007 and 2010. On 11 November 2010, he announced his decision to not contest the 2011 state election. Tripodi had his membership of the Labor Party terminated in June 2014 after the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption found that Tripodi acted in corrupt conduct by deliberately failing to disclose to his Cabinet colleagues his awareness of the Obeid family's financial interests in Circular Quay leases.
Tripodi was born in 1967 and raised in Fairfield, a suburb in south-western Sydney, the eldest of four children to Italian migrants Angelo and Iolanda, receiving his early years of education at Westfields High School, West Fairfield. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from the University of Sydney and became an economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1989 to 1991. At age 16, Tripodi joined the Labor Party and served as State Secretary of NSW Young Labor, later becoming an official with the NSW Labor Council from 1993 to 1995.
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