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Linda Jean Burney (born 25 April 1957), an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Canterbury for the Australian Labor Party since 2003. Upon her election, she became the first Aboriginal person to serve in the New South Wales Parliament.〔 Burney is the New South Wales Deputy Leader of the Opposition and also Shadow Minister for Education and Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.〔http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/0/8D837093FE30EC35CA256CFA0011AA15〕 In the Keneally ministry, she was the Minister for the State Plan and Minister for Community Services. During 2008 and 2009, Burney was National President of the Australian Labor Party. ==Early life and background== Burney is of Wiradjuri descent and grew up in Whitton, a small town in south west NSW near Leeton. In her inaugural speech to Parliament she said: Burney attended the local primary school in Whitton. She did her first four years of secondary school at Leeton High School and final two at Penrith High School. She was the first Aboriginal graduate from the Mitchell College of Advanced Education where she obtained a Diploma of Teaching. She began her career teaching at Lethbridge Park public school in western Sydney in 1979. She has been involved in the New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group since the mid-1980s and has participated in the development and implementation of the first Aboriginal education policy in Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Australian Women )〕 She has held senior positions in the non-government sector, serving on a number of boards including SBS, the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board and the NSW Board of Studies. Burney was an executive member of the National Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, President of the NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group and is a former Director-General of the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs, and in 2006 she was elected National Vice President of the Australian Labor Party. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Linda Burney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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