Chris Minns


Christopher John Minns is an Australian politician who was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Kogarah for the Labor Party at the 2015 New South Wales state election. He is currently the Shadow Minister for Transport and Corrections. He was previously the Opposition spokesman for Water and head of the opposition's waste watch committee.

Political career

Minns was first elected to office in 2004 as a Penshurst Ward Councillor of the Hurstville City Council and was elected for a term as deputy mayor in 2007–2008; he left council at the 2008 election after serving a single term. He also worked on the staff of Carl Scully and John Robertson.
Minns was Assistant Secretary of the NSW Labor Party. In his inaugural speech in the Legislative Assembly, Minns called for reducing union influence in the Labor Party, 'and increasing representation of ordinary members of our party who have more diverse voices'. Bob Nanva, National Secretary of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union, while acknowledging that Minns had been 'an extraordinarily effective Assistant General Secretary of the ALP', rebuked him for being 'seriously mistaken'.
Following Luke Foley's resignation of the role, Minns nominated for the role of New South Wales Labor leader and Leader of the New South Wales Opposition. On 10 November 2018, Minns lost the leadership spill to Michael Daley 33 votes to 12. In 2019, it was reported that Minns received a donation from a businessman and organisation linked to the Communist Party of China.