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The Hon. Linda Jean Burney (b.1957) is a Wiradjuri woman and was the first Aboriginal person to be elected to the New South Wales Parliament, in which she became Deputy Leader of the Opposition and held shadow portfolios including Family and Community Services, Aboriginal Affairs, Sport and Recreation. In 2016 she resigned from her state post to become the first Aboriginal woman to serve in the House of Representatives. Burney worked as a teacher, education policy adviser and as Director General of the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs before being elected Member of the Legislative Assembly for Canterbury (NSW) in 2003. Between 2007 and 2009, she held Ministerial positions in the NSW Labor Government including Fair Trading, Youth and Volunteering, Community Services, the State Plan and as Coordinating Minister for the Department of Human Services. She has been a member of the National Social Justice Task Force of ATSIC and the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, and has represented Aboriginal Australians at the United Nations. Burney holds an honorary doctorate from Charles Sturt University. She was one of Riley’s closest and earliest friends in Sydney.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
© Michael Riley/Copyright Agency, 2021
Accession number: 2013.50.2
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On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves: who we read, who we watch, who we listen to, who we cheer for, who we aspire to be, and who we'll never forget. The Companion is available to buy online and in the Portrait Gallery Store.
Linda Burney, Brenda Croft and Darrell Sibosado share memories of Michael Riley and his photographic practice.
Michael Riley’s early portraits by Amanda Rowell.
Bare: Degrees of undress celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.