Paul Scully is an Australian politician who has been a member of the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...

since 12 November 2016, representing the seat of

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for the Labor Party, since the

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to replace Noreen Hay. He is currently the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces from April 2023. Before his election, Scully was chief operating officer of the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials at the

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (UOW) is an Australian public university, public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately south of Sydney. , the university had an enrolment of more than 33,000 s ...

. He is married to Alison Byrnes, the member for

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since the 2022 federal election.

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