Morris Iemma
Morris Iemma ( born July 21, 1961 in Sydney ) is an Australian politician of the Australian Labor Party (ALP ) and was among other things, between August 2005 and September 2008, Prime Minister of New South Wales.
Life
Professional Activities and deputy
After schooling Iemma first completed a degree in economics from the University of Sydney, which he finished with a Bachelor of Economy ( B.Ec. ). Another study of law at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS ), he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ). After having worked as a trade union official with the union of employees of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia between 1984 and 1986, he was in 1986 environmental and social policy advisor to Senator Graham Richardson and remained in this position until 1991.
On May 25, 1991 Iemma member of the Legislative Assembly ( Legislative Assembly ) of New South Wales was chosen as the candidate of the Australian Labor Party for the first time. In this he represented initially by 5 March 1999 constituency Huntsville and thereafter until 19 September 2008 constituency Lakemba.
During his long parliamentary membership Iemma was between July 1991 and March 2005 Member of the Regulation Review Committee and at the same time from October 1991 to September 1992 Member of the Joint Constitutional Committee of the Parliament of New South Wales.
In April 1995 he took his first government post as Parliamentary Secretary at the Attorney General and the Minister for Industrial Relations. Subsequently, he was Parliamentary between December 1997 and April 1999 Secretary to Prime Minister Bob Carr.
Ministers and Prime Minister
In April 1999 he was appointed by Prime Minister Bob Carr as Minister to the Prime Minister of Citizenship Affairs and Minister of Public Works and Services for the first time in a government. In addition, he was between November 2001 and April 2003, Minister of Sport and Recreation in the Carr -led government. In a cabinet reshuffle in April 2003, he was then Minister of Health and remained in this position until August 2005.
On 3 August 2005, Iemma 's successor Bob Carr as premier of New South Wales and held the post of head of government of the state until his replacement by his party colleague Nathan Rees on 5 September 2008. During this period he was also Chairman of the ALP in New South Wales.
During this time, he was criticized in September 2007 because of his behavior during the APEC conference in Sydney, among others, representatives of the Stop the War Coalition. During this summit, the largest safety action took place in Australia's history, involving 3,500 police and security forces, and 1,500 defense forces. The Prime Minister John Howard, Ieamma and the police have been heavily criticized due to this action, which was termed tactics heavy-handed ( " ruthless hand " ) because Greg Mcleay, a 53 -year-old accountant was arrested with his eleven years old son without bail, as he crossed a road and too close came to an official motorcade, a 2.8 meter high barrier for protection from the public in the town was erected, a 600,000 AUD expensive high-pressure water cannon was specifically purchased for this protest and during the demonstration had been taken by numerous police officers identification numbers.
During his tenure as Prime Minister also took place in July 2008, the XXIII. World Youth Day held in Sydney. On 1 July 2007, he had taken along with Prime Minister Howard, the World Youth Day Cross in a ceremony at Darling Harbour in reception.
In addition, he was from August 2005 to February 2006 and Minister of the Treasury ( ' Treasurer ), and at the same time between August 2005 and September 2008, Minister of Citizenship matters. He was also from February 2006 and April 2007 Minister for State Development in his cabinet.