Member of the Legislative Council
| Address | The Hon. Mark Latham MLC, Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 |
|---|---|
| Phone | (02) 9230 3682 |
| mark.latham@parliament.nsw.gov.au |
Contact details
Parliamentary activity
Information about members' parliamentary activity including links to speeches made in parliament, notice tracking, questions tracking, positions held and biography.
Current positions
| Position | Start | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Member, Select Committee into the Football in Schools program, Football in Schools program | Wed 24 June 2026 | |
| Chair, Select Committee into the Failure of the Playing Surface at Allianz Stadium, Failure of the playing surface at Allianz Stadium | Wed 15 October 2025 | |
| Member, Procedure Committee | Thu 30 November 2023 | |
| Member, Selection of Bills Committee | Tue 22 August 2023 | |
| Member, Joint Standing Committee on Road Safety | Thu 29 June 2023 | |
| Member, Public Accountability and Works Committee | Tue 23 May 2023 | |
| Member of the NSW Legislative Council | Sat 25 March 2023 |
Prior positions
| Position | Start | End | Period | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chair, Select Committee on Barangaroo sight lines, Barangaroo sight lines | Wed 10 August 2022 | Mon 20 February 2023 | 6 months 11 days | |
| Member, Select Committee on the Greater Sydney Parklands Trust Bill 2021, Greater Sydney Parklands Trust Bill 2021 | Tue 23 November 2021 | Tue 22 February 2022 | 3 months | |
| Member, Chairs' Committee, Chairs' Committee - 2020 meetings | Mon 02 November 2020 | Thu 02 March 2023 | 2 years 4 months 1 day | |
| Member, Joint Select Committee on the Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Religious Freedoms and Equality) Bill 2020 | Thu 18 June 2020 | Wed 31 March 2021 | 9 months 14 days | Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Religious Freedoms and Equality) Bill 2020 |
| Substitute Member, Standing Committee on State Development | Thu 20 June 2019 | Wed 04 March 2020 | 8 months 14 days | Uranium Mining and Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill 2019 |
| Chair, Portfolio Committee No. 3 - Education | Thu 06 June 2019 | Thu 02 March 2023 | 3 years 8 months 25 days | |
| Member, Joint Select Committee on Sydney's Night Time Economy, Sydney's Night Time Economy | Wed 29 May 2019 | Mon 30 September 2019 | 4 months 2 days | |
| Member, Selection of Bills Committee | Tue 28 May 2019 | Thu 02 March 2023 | 3 years 9 months 3 days | |
| Member, Portfolio Committee No. 3 - Education | Wed 15 May 2019 | Thu 02 March 2023 | 3 years 9 months 16 days | |
| Member of the NSW Legislative Council | Sat 23 March 2019 | Thu 02 March 2023 | 3 years 11 months 8 days |
Biography
Political party activity
Following his graduation from University in 1982 Mark has worked for a series of Labor politicians, including John Kerin, Gough Whitlam and Bob Carr. Mark served as Mayor of Liverpool Council between 1991 and 1994, having been elected to Liverpool Council as an East Ward Alderman in 1987.
In national politics, Mark was the Member for Werriwa (1994-2005), a Labor Shadow Minister (1996-98 and 2001-2003) and Leader of the Opposition (2003-2005). After holding an early lead in the polls, he led Labor unsuccessfully in its attempt to win government against John Howard at the October 2004 Federal election.
Personal information
Born on 28 February 1961, Mark grew up in Green Valley near Liverpool in Western Sydney
and went to school at Ashcroft Primary School and Hurlstone Agricultural High
School, where he was Dux in 1978.
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Mark studied Economics at Sydney University, winning the JK Galbraith Prize for Political
Economy in 1980 and graduating with an Honours degree in 1982.
After leaving parliament in 2005, Mark was a columnist for various newspapers, including the
Australian Financial Review (2007-2015) and Sydney’s Daily Telegraph
(2016-2018). He is the author of 13 books, including Civilising Global Capital
(1998), The Latham Diaries (2005), Outsiders (2017) and Take Back Australia
(2018).
Mark is one of Australia’s leading advocates of ‘outsider’ politics. He strongly opposes
the impact of political correctness and identity politics on public debate,
freely speaking his mind on a range of issues. In March 2017 he established an
online platform ‘Mark Latham’s Outsiders’. It ran a successful, high-profile
Save Australia Day campaign in January 2018.