Born: 25 April 1957, Australia
Died: NA
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: NA
This biography is republished from The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Written by Caitlin Stone, The University of Melbourne. See below for full attribution.
Linda Burney was born in Leeton, New South Wales in 1957. She was Director-General of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in New South Wales before she entered parliament as a member of the Australian Labor Party in 2003, when she became the first Indigenous person to be elected to the New South Wales parliament. In 2007 she was appointed to the ministry. Following the defeat of the Labor Government in 2011, she became Deputy Leader of the Opposition in New South Wales.
Work cited
Caitlin Stone, ‘Burney, Linda Jean’, in The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Australian Women’s Archives Project, 2014, https://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0317b.htm, accessed 16 January 2022.