Sonia Hornery

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Sonia Hornery JP MP
Member of Legislative Assembly of New South Wales
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 March 2007
Constituency	Wallsend
Personal details
Born	(1961-12-04) 4 December 1961
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Religion	Roman Catholic

Sonia Kathleen Hornery JP MP (born 4 December 1961) is an Australian politician representing the seat of Electoral district of Wallsend for the Australian Labor Party. She has been in Parliament since 24 March 2007.

Hornery grew up in Windale and Edgeworth living in Housing Commission housing, before moving to rented accommodation in Wallsend and West Wallsend.

She attended Newcastle University and studied teaching. She later returned and obtained a Bachelor of Arts, with Honours, in history.

Her first teaching appointment was to Walgett High School. She then taught at Kempsey High School and other schools around the Hunter Region.

In 2002 she was elected to Newcastle City Council.

She was elected to the New South Wales Parliament in 2007. She was appointed Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Minister for Transport being appointed on 8 May 2007 although on the 16 November 2009, Hornery was dumped as a Parliamentary Secretary for opposing the Premier Nathan Rees on privatisation of public owned assets in her electorate and campaigning within the Labor Party caucus to replace Nathan Rees as Premier of New South Wales.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT/hansArt.nsf/V3Key/LA20070509007
↑ http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/sacked-hornery-to-keep-fighting-for-wallsend-centre/1679041.aspx| Newcastele Herald, Retrieved 2009-11-15

Parliament of New South Wales
Preceded by John Mills	Member for Wallsend 2007–present	Incumbent

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Liberal (50)	Greg Aplin Stuart Ayres Mike Baird Bart Bassett Craig Baumann Gladys Berejiklian Glenn Brookes Charles Casuscelli Kevin Conolly Andrew Constance Andrew Cornwell Mark Coure Tanya Davies Victor Dominello Bryan Doyle Garry Edwards David Elliott Lee Evans John Flowers Melanie Gibbons Pru Goward Shelley Hancock Chris Hartcher Brad Hazzard Chris Holstein Tony Issa Matt Kean Geoff Lee Daryl Maguire Bruce Notley-Smith Jonathan O'Dea Barry O'Farrell Tim Owen Robyn Parker Chris Patterson Dominic Perrottet Anthony Roberts Andrew Rohan Jai Rowell Roza Sage John Sidoti Jillian Skinner Greg Smith Mark Speakman Chris Spence Rob Stokes Gabrielle Upton Gareth Ward Darren Webber Ray Williams

Nationals (19)	Kevin Anderson John Barilaro Stephen Bromhead Andrew Fraser Andrew Gee Thomas George Troy Grant Chris Gulaptis Katrina Hodgkinson Kevin Humphries Adam Marshall Don Page Adrian Piccoli Geoff Provest George Souris Andrew Stoner Paul Toole John Williams Leslie Williams

Labor (21)	Richard Amery Clayton Barr Linda Burney Cherie Burton Barry Collier Michael Daley Robert Furolo Noreen Hay Ron Hoenig Sonia Hornery Nick Lalich Paul Lynch Tania Mihailuk Andrew McDonald Ryan Park Barbara Perry Nathan Rees John Robertson Carmel Tebbutt Anna Watson Guy Zangari

Independents (2)	Alex Greenwich Greg Piper

Greens (1)	Jamie Parker

Persondata
Name	Hornery, Sonia
Alternative names
Short description	Australian politician
Date of birth	4 December 1961
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