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Luke Foley (Luke Aquinas Foley) was born on 27 June, 1970 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is an Australian Labor Party politician. Discover Luke Foley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?

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Age 53 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 27 June 1970
Birthday 27 June
Birthplace Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1970

Luke Aquinas Foley (born 27 June 1970) is a former Australian Labor Party politician who served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of New South Wales from 2015 to 2018.

1988

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.

1992

Foley is a member of the Summer Hill Seniors Cricket Club, a member of the Sydney Cricket Ground since 1992, and an executive member of the Victor Trumper Society.

He is also a supporter of the Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Club.

1996

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:

"For seven years I organised and represented workers predominantly working in the social and community services sector. These men and women work with the downtrodden, the excluded and the marginalised. They are ordinary workers who do extraordinary things. They are passionate and dedicated and they are underpaid and undervalued. What does it say about our values as a society when these men and women are among our lowest paid workers? Community workers make a difference every day. It is time we properly recognised them for the work they do."

1999

In 1999, he worked as an accredited Triple J cricket correspondent reporting from the Australian/West Indies series in the Caribbean.

2003

A member of Labor's left faction, before his appointment to the Legislative Council, Foley was the assistant general secretary of the New South Wales Labor Party from 2003 to 2010.

2009

Foley was a sportswriter for The Punch from 2009.

Foley was appointed to the Legislative Council to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ian MacDonald.

He describes himself as a "practising Catholic on the Left of politics"

2010

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 resigned after it was alleged that he had indecently assaulted an ABC journalist.

Foley denies the allegations.

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.

Foley is a keen cricketer.

Foley voted in favour of same sex adoption bill in 2010 and in 2015 announced his support behind federal legislation for same-sex marriage.

Foley said: "I have an open mind. I continue to talk to many people, including gay and lesbian friends of mine about this issue".

2015

Following the resignation of John Robertson as leader of the parliamentary Labor Party, Foley contested the leadership in the vote held on 5 January 2015.

After the withdrawal of Michael Daley and Steve Whan as leadership contenders, Foley was elected unopposed.

He was endorsed as the Labor candidate for the safe Labor seat of Auburn at the 2015 state election, after the incumbent member Barbara Perry stood aside to allow him to transfer to the lower house from the Legislative Council.

He went on to win the seat, however, with a small swing against his party in the electorate.

Foley did manage to pick up a 14-seat swing, and recovered much of what Labor had lost four years earlier.

Notably, Labor regained many seats in its longstanding heartlands of west Sydney, the Central Coast, and the Hunter that had been swept up by the Coalition.

It reduced the Coalition majority from 22 seats to seven.

2016

Later that month, ABC journalist Ashleigh Raper released a statement, alleging that at an event in November 2016, Foley "placed his hand down the back of her dress and inside her underpants."

Hours later, Foley read a statement in which he resigned as leader of the Labor Party, but denied the allegation and said he would commence defamation proceedings against Raper in the Federal Court.

Later in November, he dropped the case against Raper.

Foley has stated his values are "social democratic values":

2018

In October 2018, NSW Corrections Minister David Elliott raised an allegation in the Legislative Assembly about an incident where Foley had "a little bit too much to drink at a party and harassed an ABC journalist."

In 2018, Foley talked about White flight.

He was condemned by Premier Gladys Berejiklian for his view that an influx of people of non-European descent had driven many Anglo Australians to leave parts of Sydney.

Foley is married to Edel McKenna and they have three children.