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Leaders of the Opposition in the NSW Legislative Assembly by Party affiliation 1901 present

Leaders of the Opposition in the NSW Legislative Assembly by Party affiliation 1901 present

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NAMEPERIOD SERVED
AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY
James Sinclair Taylor McGOWEN20.09.1904 - 21.10.1910
Ernest DURACK22.11.1916 - 19.02.1917
John STOREY22.02.1917 - 13.04.1920
James DOOLEY20.04.1922 - 09.03.1923
John Joseph Gregory McGIRR09.03.1923 - 16.04.1923
William Fraser DUNN16.04.1923 - 16.04.1923
John Thomas LANG31.07.1923 - 17.06.1925
18.10.1927 - 04.11.1930 
22.06.1932 - 05.09.1939
William John McKELL05.09.1939 - 16.05.1941
John Brophy RENSHAW14.05.1965 - 23.07.1968
Patrick Darcy HILLS30.07.1968 - 03.12.1973
Neville Kenneth WRAN03.12.1973 - 14.05.1976
Robert John CARR06.04.1988 - 04.04.1995
John Cameron ROBERTSON31.03.2011 - 23.12.2014
Linda Jean BURNEY*05.01.2015 - 08.04.2015
​Luke Aquinas FOLEY^​
​08.04.2015 - 08.11.2018
​Michael John DALEY​10.11.2018 - 25.03.2019
​Ryan John PARK  (Acting)​07.05.2019 - 29.06.2019
​Jodi Leyanne MCKAY
​29.06.2019 - 28.05.2021
​(Chris) Christopher John MINNS
​04.06.2021 - 28.03.2023
NON-LABOR
LIBERAL REFORM
Charles Alfred LEE28.03.1901 - 18.09.1902
Joseph Hector CARRUTHERS18.09.1902 - 30.08.1904
NATIONALIST
George Warburton FULLER14.04.1920 - 13.04.1922
23.06.1925 - 24.09.1925
Thomas Rainsford BAVIN24.09.1925 - 18.10.1927
25.11.1930 - 05.04.1932
UNITED AUSTRALIA PARTY
Bertram Sydney Barnsdale STEVENS05. 04.1932 - 13.05.1932
Alexander MAIR19.05.1941 - 09.12.1943
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Alexander MAIR09.12.1943 - 10.02.1944
Reginald Walter Darcy WEAVER10.02.1944 - 20.04.1945
LIBERAL
Charles Gregory WADE21.10.1910 - 15.11.1916
Reginald Walter Darcy WEAVER20.04.1945 - 12.11.1945
Alexander MAIR13.11.1945 - 20.03.1946
Vernon Haddon TREATT20.03.1946 - 10.08.1954
Ewan Murray ROBSON17.08.1954 - 20.09.1955
Philip Henry MORTON20.09.1955 - 17.07.1959
Robert (Robin WIlliam) ASKIN17.07.1959 - 13.05.1965
Eric Archibald WILLIS15.05.1976 - 16.12.1977
William Peter COLEMAN16.12.1977 - 07.10.1978
John Marsden MASON24.10.1978 - 29.05.1981
Bruce John McDONALD01.06.1981 - 12.10.1981
John Robert Arthur DOWD27.10.1981 - 15.03.1983
Nicholas Frank GREINER15.03.1983 - 25.03.1988
Peter Edward James COLLINS04.04.1995 - 07.12.1998
Kerry Anne CHIKAROVSKI07.12.1998 - 28.03.2002
John Gilbert BROGDEN28.03.2002 - 29.08.2005
Peter John DEBNAM01.09.2005 - 04.04.2007
Barry Robert O'FARRE​LL04.04.2007 - 28.03.2011
(Knighthoods omitted from this listing) 



* Acting Leader of the Opposition 23.12.2014 to 05.01.2015 following the resignation of John Robertson.
^ Elected Leader of the Australian Labor Party on 05.01.2015 and assumed responsibilities of the Leader of the Opposition.​

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