Timothy Carson Crakanthorp is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor 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 25 October 2014, when he was elected in a

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben ...

to the seat of Newcastle. Mr Crakanthorp was an elected Councillor on Newcastle City Council for 8 years. When he was elected to the Legislative Assembly he was still a serving Councillor on Newcastle City Council. Crakanthorp was the Minister for Skills, TAFE and Tertiary Education, and the Minister for the Hunter in the NSW Minns ministry before stepping down amid allegations of breaching the Ministerial Code of Conduct due to failing to disclose his pecuniary interests of land holdings in an urban redevelopment project within his portfolio. On 10 April 2024, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) announced that it was terminating its preliminary investigation because it was "s''atisfied that there are no reasonable prospects of finding Mr Crakanthorp’s conduct is sufficiently serious to justify a finding of corrupt conduc''t". In June 2024, a teenager was charged with terrorism offences after entering Crakanthorp's office with weapons. The teen had filmed the minister and had made threats.

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Labor Left politicians Living people Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly New South Wales local councillors Place of birth missing (living people) Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-NewSouthWales-MP-stub