Luke Foley
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Luke Foley MP |
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Leader of the Opposition in New South Wales Elections: 2015 |
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Assumed office 5 January 2015 |
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| Premier |
Mike Baird Gladys Berejiklian |
| Deputy |
Linda Burney Michael Daley |
| Preceded by | John Robertson |
| Leader of the Labor Party in New South Wales | |
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Assumed office 5 January 2015 |
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| Deputy |
Linda Burney Michael Daley |
| Preceded by | John Robertson |
| Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council | |
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In office 19 June 2010 – 6 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Ian Macdonald |
| Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Auburn | |
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Assumed office 28 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Barbara Perry |
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27 July 1970 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Edel McKenna |
| Children | Three |
| Alma mater | University of New South Wales |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | lukefoley |
Luke Aquinas Foley (born 27 July 1970) is an Australian politician who serves as the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of New South Wales and as parliamentary leader of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. Foley was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 19 June 2010 until his resignation to contest the Legislative Assembly seat of Auburn at the 2015 New South Wales election.
Foley was born in Sydney and from the age of seven was raised solely by his mother. In an interview conducted when he became NSW Opposition Leader, Foley stated his mother instilled in him a triple faith of “the Labor Party, the Catholic Church and the Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Club”.
Foley was active in student representative politics at university and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales, the first in his family to attend university.
Luke is a keen cricketer. In 1999 he worked as an accredited Triple J cricket correspondent reporting from the Australian/West Indies series in the Caribbean.
Starting his working life while a student as a telemarketer for the Guide Dog Association of NSW 1988–90, Foley became NSW President of the National Union of Students 1991, and then worked in the office of Labor Senator Bruce Childs 1992–96.
Between 1996 and 2000, he was a union organiser with the NSW branch of the Australian Services Union and became Secretary of that branch between 2000 and 2003. This involved representing the interests of charity and drug and alcohol rehabilitation workers. Referring to that period in his first speech in the NSW Parliament, Foley stated:
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