2009 New South Wales Labor Party Spill motion
Leadership election
Deputy leadership election
The 2009 New South Wales Labor Party leadership spill was held on 3 December 2009 to elect the leader of the New South Wales Labor Party and, ex officio , Premier of New South Wales .[ 1] [ 2]
Sitting premier Nathan Rees lost a spill motion after several months of speculation about a possible challenge.[ 3] [ 4] leadership election , but was defeated by planning minister Kristina Keneally .[ 5] [ 6] Carmel Tebbutt was returned unopposed as deputy leader (and Deputy Premier ), creating the first all-female leadership team in Australia at a state or federal level.[ 7] [ 8]
Keneally was sworn in as premier the following day, becoming the first female Premier of New South Wales and the state's fourth premier in as many years.[ 9] [ 10] landslide defeat less than two years later at the 2011 New South Wales state election .[ 11] [ 12]
Prior to the spill, Rees said that any challenger "would be a puppet" of factional powerbrokers Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi .[ 13] [ 14] [ 15] [ 16]
Frank Sartor was defeated by Keneally in a vote of Labor Right MPs, with Keneally becoming the Right's candidate for leader.[ 23] [ 24]
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