Frank Sartor

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The Hon.
Frank Sartor
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Frank Sartor
Member of the New South Wales Parliament
for Rockdale
In office
22 March 2003  – 26 March 2011

As Minister for Water Utilities, Sartor introduced a number of sweeping changes to the water supply system, and championed water conservation, recycling and innovation in Sydney, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains. Sartor's changes in water and energy included: oversighting the introduction of an energy and water sustainability index for new homes; implementing a government energy and water savings fund to support innovative ideas to reduce water and energy consumption; encouraging the uptake of water conservation rebates, household devices and rainwater tanks; and requiring all local councils in the Sydney metropolitan area to develop water savings plans. Sartor also oversaw the development of water infrastructure projects - including large recycling projects in Sydney. He also released the Metropolitan Water Plan which first envisaged the potential for a desalination plant to supplement Sydney's water supplies. After Sartor left the Water portfolio and became Planning Minister, despite an extremely vocal anti-desalination campaign in Kurnell during the 2007 State election, the government was returned. Desalination was Labor policy established by Sartor, whereas Opposition Liberal policy advocated the use of recycled water. Sartor and the NSW Government rejected the use of recycled water in Sydney.

Redfern Waterloo

In 2005 Premier Bob Carr appointed Sartor as the first Minister for Redfern Waterloo overseeing the Redfern-Waterloo Authority and exercising planning powers over an area of inner Sydney. [14] In this role he invoked the ire of the Redfern indigenous population with his rejection of a plan by the Aboriginal Housing Company to redevelop "The Block" and for suggesting on Koori Radio that the Company's chairman, Mick Mundine should "Get off your backside ... and bring your black arse in here to talk about it." Sartor later apologised for this remark. The creation of the Redfern Waterloo portfolio was greeted with some cynicism given the long history of similar attempts to rejuvenate the area. Despite this, the Authority was able to deliver urban renewal projects for a number of derelict sites including the former Redfern Public School and a substantial redevelopment of the Australian Technology Park to incorporate headquarters for the Sydney television station Channel Seven. As part of Sartor's broader reforms in the area, the Australian Technology Park was established, and due to the reforms established by Mr Sartor, the NSW Government is able to continue active investigations into better use of disused land in the inner-west, such as the former Eveleigh railway workshops and disused industrial land.

Minister for Planning

Upon the appointment of Morris Iemma as Premier in late 2005, Sartor relinquished the Energy and Water portfolios and was sworn in as Minister for Planning. His administration was marked by a series of planning reforms to reduce the concurrence and consultation processes required for major developments in NSW. In a column in the Sydney Morning Herald , journalist and former City of Sydney Councillor Elizabeth Farrelly was scathing of Sartor for his support for advertising billboards along NSW roadways, his approval of the Anvil Hill Coal Mine, and for his moves to reduce the planning powers of local government. [15]

Sartor was re-elected as Member for Rockdale at the 2007 State election with a slightly reduced majority, [16] [17] and was sworn in as Minister for Planning, Minister for Redfern Waterloo and Minister for the Arts.

In 2008 the NSW Greens demanded a Royal Commission into alleged links between Sartor's planning approvals and Labor Party donations by major developers. [18] Sartor denied his planning decisions had been influenced by developer donations and threatened legal action against media outlets which repeated the claims. [19] In 2009, Sartor was damaged by a Land and Environment Court judgment that described a decision he made to allow development at Catherine Hill Bay by a political donor, Rose Group, in exchange for conservation land as being influenced by a "land bribe". On announcing his resignation, Sartor described his time as planning minister as the most difficult of his career. [3]

On 7 September 2008 Frank Sartor was defeated in a ballot for ministerial positions and returned to the backbench [20] with reports of internal polling by Labor revealing that Sartor was one of the government's most unpopular ministers. [3]

Minister for Climate Change and the Environment

In December 2009, a no confidence motion was passed; and Nathan Rees stood down as Leader of NSW Labor. [21] Sartor contested a Labor right faction ballot and narrowly lost the ballot to Kristina Keneally, who was then made Premier. [3] Keneally returned Sartor to the NSW Cabinet; appointed to the role of Minister for Climate Change and the Environment. He was also returned to his old role of Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), an area of personal interest and commitment.

Personal life

The dancer Hephzibah Tintner was his partner until her death from cancer in 2001. She was the daughter of the Austrian-born orchestral conductor Georg Tintner. [22] [23]

He is now married to Monique Sartor, an interior decorator and lives in Glebe a suburb of Sydney.

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  1. ↑ Mitchell, Alex (10 November 2002). "Exclusive poll a gift for Sartor's Rockdale bid". The Sydney Morning Herald . Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 16 May 2010. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
  2. ↑ Nicholls, Sean (4 December 2010). "Keneally begs for second chance". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
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  10. ↑ "Report of Parliamentary Ethics Committee". New South Wales Legislative Council Hansard. New South Wales Parliament. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012.
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Preceded by Lord Mayor of Sydney
1991 – 2003		Succeeded by
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Member for Rockdale
2003–2011		Succeeded by
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