The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Sydney is the head of the Council of the City of Sydney, which is the local government area covering the central business district of Sydney in the State of New South Wales, Australia. The Lord Mayor has been directly elected since 1995, replacing the previous system of being internally elected annually by the Councillors, and serves a four-year term. The most recent election was held on 4 December 2021, at which the incumbent Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, was re-elected to a fifth term. The Lord Mayor is assisted in their work by a Deputy Lord Mayor, who is elected on an annual basis by the elected councillors.
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The office of the Mayor of Sydney along with the City of Sydney was created on 20 July 1842 pursuant to the Sydney City Incorporation Act 1842 by Governor Sir George Gipps. Prior to the first municipal election, the governor nominated magistrate Charles Windeyer to serve as interim mayor.[1] The first council, consisting of 24 aldermen elected across six wards, was declared elected on 3 November 1842 and first met in the George Street Market Building (now the site of the Queen Victoria Building) on 9 November and elected John Hosking as the first elected mayor of Sydney.[2]
The title of Mayor (in full: The Right Worshipful the Mayor[3]) was elevated to "Lord Mayor" on 23 November 1902 by King Edward VII, and as part of this process received the honorific The Right Honourable, a title which attaches to the title of Lord Mayor and not to the individual holding the office.[4] In December 1915, the Parliament of New South Wales passed the Sydney Corporation (Election of Mayor) Act, 1915 which amended the 1902 act to allow for the governor to appoint the lord mayor should the council be unable to elect a candidate on or before 30 December of any year.[5] This occurred three times, in 1916, 1920 and 1934.
The office of lord mayor, along with the City of Sydney, was governed by the Sydney Corporation Act, 1932 until the passing of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948, which placed Sydney under the terms of the Local Government Act 1919, which governed all other local governments in the state. This meant that the election of lord mayor (until 1971 in December of each year, and then in September) marked the beginning of the term, instead of the previous system, where the lord mayoral term began on 1 January and expired on 31 December. When the City of Sydney Act 1988 was passed, the City of Sydney was once again governed under a separate law, but the election of lord mayor did not change until the Local Government Legislation Amendment Act 1995, which allowed for popular direct elections from 1995.[6]
Vestments of office
As head of the council, the lord mayor is entitled to wear the chains and robes of office, as befitting the ancient status of lord mayor of a large city. In 1902 the Sydney Chamber of Commerce commissioned the first link of a mayoral chain. In 1903, the governor of New South Wales, Sir Harry Rawson presented the first lord mayor, Thomas Hughes, with the chain of office. It features the coat of arms of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce and the Stock Exchange and a pendant depicting the coat of arms of Sydney. Successive mayors each added a medallion, on which was embossed their term of office. By 1945, this practice had ended because of the size and weight of the chain. Today, the chain is worn with the robes of office only for rare civic ceremonies, a smaller collar being worn for most civic duties.
The original civic robe for the mayor of Sydney in 1842 was purple, trimmed with ermine and worn with a court dress hat. The current robes worn by the lord mayor and deputy lord mayor are black, trimmed with ermine, and worn with bicorne hat, lace jabot and white gloves. They are worn rarely and only at major civic functions.[7] Recently, it has become the custom not to wear the robes.
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# | Officeholder | Party/Affiliation | Title | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes |
1 | Charles Windeyer | n/a | Mayor | 12 August 1842 | 9 November 1842 | 89 days | [1] |
2 | John Hosking | 9 November 1842 | 1843 | | [8] |
3 | James Robert Wilshire | 25 September 1843 | November 1844 | | [9] |
4 | George Allen | November 1844 | November 1845 | | [10] |
5 | Henry Macdermott | 1846 | 1846 |
6 | Thomas Broughton | 1847 | 1847 |
7 | Joshua Frey Josephson | 1848 | 1848 |
8 | Edward Flood | 1849 | 1849 |
9 | George Hill | 1850 | 1850 |
10 | William Edward Thurlow | 1851 | 1852 |
11 | Daniel Egan | 1853 | 1853 |
n/a | Gilbert Elliot | Chief Commissioner | 1854 | 1856 |
Frederick Orme Darval | Commissioner |
John Rae |
12 | George Thornton | Mayor | 1857 | 1857 |
13 | John Williams | 1858 | 1858 |
14 | George Smith | 1859 | 1859 |
15 | James Murphy | 1860 | 1860 |
16 | John Sutherland | 1861 | 1861 |
17 | James Oatley | 1862 | 1862 |
18 | Thomas Spence | 1863 | 1863 |
19 | William Speer | 1864 | 1864 |
20 | John Woods | 1865 | 1865 |
21 | John Sutton | 1866 | 1866 |
22 | Charles Moore | 1867 | 1869 |
23 | Walter Renny | 1869 | 1870 |
24 | Michael Chapman | 1871 | 1872 |
25 | James Merriman | 1873 | 1873 |
26 | Stephen Styles Goold | 1874 | 1874 |
27 | Benjamin Palmer | 1875 | 1876 |
– | James Merriman | 1877 | 1878 |
28 | Charles James Roberts | 1879 | 1879 |
29 | Robert Fowler | 1880 | 1880 |
30 | John Harris | 1881 | 1883 |
31 | John Hardie | 1884 | 1884 |
32 | Thomas Playfair | 1 January 1885 (1885-01-01) | 31 December 1885 (1885-12-31) | 364 days | [11] |
33 | John Young | 1 January 1886 | 31 December 1886 | 364 days | [12] |
34 | Alban Joseph Riley | | Independent | 1 January 1887 | 31 December 1887 | 364 days | [13] |
35 | John Harris | | Independent | 1 January 1888 | 31 December 1889 | 1 year, 364 days | [14][15] |
36 | Sydney Burdekin | | Independent | 1 January 1890 | 10 April 1891 | 1 year, 99 days | [16][17][18][19] |
37 | Sir William Patrick Manning | | Independent | 10 April 1891 | 31 December 1894 | 3 years, 265 days | [20][21][22][23] |
38 | Samuel Edward Lees | | Independent | 1 January 1895 | 31 December 1895 | 364 days | [24][25] |
39 | Isaac Ellis Ives | | Independent | 1 January 1896 | 31 December 1897 | 1 year, 364 days | [26][27][28] |
40 | Sir Matthew Harris | | Independent | 1 January 1898 | 31 December 1900 | 2 years, 364 days | [29][30][31] |
41 | Sir James Graham | | Independent | 1 January 1901 | 31 December 1901 | 364 days | [32] |
42 | Thomas Hughes | | Independent | 1 January 1902 | 23 November 1902 | 326 days | [33][34] |
Lord Mayor | 23 November 1902 | 31 December 1903 | 1 year, 38 days | [4][35] |
– | Samuel Edward Lees | | Independent | 1 January 1904 | 31 December 1904 | 365 days | [36] |
43 | Allen Taylor | | Independent | 1 January 1905 | 31 December 1906 | 2 years, 364 days | [37][38] |
– | Thomas Hughes | | Independent | 1 January 1907 | 31 December 1908 | 1 year, 365 days | [39][40] |
– | Sir Allen Taylor | | Independent | 1 January 1909 | 1 May 1912 | 3 years, 121 days | [41][42][43][44][45] |
44 | George Thomas Clarke | | Independent | 1 May 1912 | 31 December 1912 | 244 days | [46][47] |
45 | Sir Arthur Cocks | | Independent | 1 January 1913 | 31 December 1913 | 364 days | [48] |
46 | Richard Watkins Richards | | Independent | 1 January 1914 | 31 December 1915 | 1 year, 364 days | [49][50][51][52][53] |
47 | Richard Meagher | | Labor | 15 January 1916 | 31 December 1917 | 1 year, 350 days | [54] |
48 | James Joynton Smith | | Independent | 1 January 1918 | 31 December 1918 | 364 days | [55][56][57] |
49 | John English | | Labor | 1 January 1919 | 8 March 1919 | 66 days | [58][59][60] |
– | Sir Richard Watkins Richards | | Independent | 11 March 1919 | 12 March 1920 | 1 year, 1 day | [61][62][63] |
50 | William Patrick Fitzgerald | | Labor | 16 March 1920 | 31 December 1920 | 290 days | [64] |
51 | William Lambert | | 1 January 1921 | 31 December 1921 | 364 days | [65][66] |
52 | William McElhone | | Independent | 1 January 1922 | 31 December 1922 | 364 days | [67][68] |
53 | David Gilpin | | Civic Reform | 1 January 1923 | 31 December 1924 | 1 year, 365 days | [69][70][71][72] |
54 | Patrick Vincent Stokes | | Labor | 1 January 1925 | 31 December 1926 | 1 year, 364 days | [73][74] |
55 | John Harold Mostyn | | 1 January 1927 | 3 January 1928 | 1 year, 2 days | [75][76][77] |
n/a | Edmund Patrick Fleming | n/a | Chief Commissioner | 3 January 1928 | 3 October 1928 | 274 days | [78][79][80] |
John Garlick | Commissioner | 30 October 1928 | 301 days |
Henry Edgar Morton |
n/a | John Garlick | n/a | Chief Commissioner | 30 October 1928 | 30 June 1930 | 1 year, 243 days | [81][82] |
Henry Edgar Morton | Commissioner | [82][83] |
Gordon Bennett |
56 | Ernest Marks | | Civic Reform | Lord Mayor | 1 July 1930 | 31 December 1930 | 183 days | [84] |
57 | Joseph Jackson | | 1 January 1931 | 31 December 1931 | 364 days | [85][86] |
58 | Sir Samuel Walder | | 1 January 1932 | 31 December 1932 | 365 days | [87] |
59 | Richard Hagon | | Independent | 1 January 1933 | 31 December 1933 | 364 days | [88] |
60 | Sir Alfred Parker | | Civic Reform | 1 January 1934 | 18 October 1935 | 1 year, 290 days | [89][90][91] |
61 | Arthur McElhone | | Independent | 22 October 1935 | 31 December 1935 | 70 days | [92] |
62 | Archibald Howie | | Civic Reform | 1 January 1936 | 31 December 1937 | 1 year, 364 days | [93][94] |
63 | Sir Norman Nock | | 1 January 1938 | 31 December 1939 | 1 year, 364 days | [95][96] |
64 | Stanley Crick | | 1 January 1940 | 31 December 1942 | 2 years, 364 days | [97][98][99] |
65 | Reg Bartley | | 1 January 1943 | 31 December 1944 | 1 year, 365 days | [100][101] |
66 | William Harding | | 1 January 1945 | 31 December 1945 | 364 days | [102] |
– | Reg Bartley | | 1 January 1946 | 31 December 1948 | 2 years, 348 days | [103][104][105] |
67 | Ernest Charles O'Dea | | Labor | 1 January 1949 | 9 December 1952 | 3 years, 361 days | [106][107][108][109] |
68 | Pat Hills | | 9 December 1952 | 30 November 1956 | 3 years, 357 days | [110] |
69 | Harry Jensen | | 1 December 1956 | 3 December 1965 | 9 years, 2 days | [111][112] |
70 | John Armstrong | | 4 December 1965 | 13 November 1967 | 1 year, 344 days | [113] |
n/a | Vernon Treatt | n/a | Chief Commissioner | 14 November 1967 | 26 September 1969 | 1 year, 316 days | [114] |
John Shaw | Deputy Chief Commissioner |
William Pettingell | Commissioner |
71 | Sir Laurence Emmet McDermott | | Civic Reform | Lord Mayor | 7 October 1969 | 25 September 1972 | 2 years, 364 days | [115] |
72 | David Griffin | | 25 September 1972 | 24 September 1973 | 364 days | [116] |
73 | Sir Nicholas Shehadie | | 24 September 1973 | 26 September 1975 | 2 years, 2 days | [117][118] |
74 | Leo Port | | 26 September 1975 | 26 August 1978 | 2 years, 334 days | [119] |
75 | Nelson Meers | | 26 August 1978 | 19 September 1980 | 2 years, 24 days | [120][121] |
76 | Doug Sutherland | | Labor | 20 September 1980 | 26 March 1987 | 6 years, 187 days | [122] |
n/a | Sir Eric Neal | n/a | Administrator | 26 March 1987 | 6 April 1987 | 11 days | [123] |
Chief Commissioner | 7 April 1987 | 31 December 1988 | 1 year, 268 days | [124] |
Sir Nicholas Shehadie | Deputy Chief Commissioner | [125] |
Norman Oakes | Commissioner | [126] |
77 | Jeremy Bingham | | Civic Reform | Lord Mayor | 3 January 1989 | 18 September 1991 | 2 years, 258 days | [127][128] |
78 | Frank Sartor | | Living Sydney Independents | 23 September 1991 | 7 April 2003 | 11 years, 201 days | [129][130] |
79 | Lucy Turnbull | | 7 April 2003 | 6 February 2004 | 305 days | [131][132][133] |
n/a | Tony Pooley | n/a | Commissioner | 6 February 2004 | 27 March 2004 | 50 days | [134] |
Garry Payne |
Lucy Turnbull |
80 | Clover Moore | | Clover Moore Independent Team | Lord Mayor | 27 March 2004 | Incumbent | 20 years, 161 days | [135][136][137] |
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The position of Deputy Lord Mayor was made a permanent council position when the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948 placed the City of Sydney under the main body of local government legislation. Prior to 1 January 1949, "Deputy" Lord Mayors were occasionally elected to act for the council during times of absence or illness of a sitting Lord Mayor, but the position was not permanent under the Sydney Corporation Act 1932 or any previous acts. The following individuals have been elected as Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney:
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1 | John James Carroll | | Labor | 1 January 1949 | 14 December 1950 | 1 year, 347 days | [138][139] | O'Dea |
2 | Jack Byrne | | 14 December 1950 | 15 December 1952 | 2 years, 1 day | [140] |
3 | Frank Green | | 15 December 1952 | 6 January 1954 | 1 year, 22 days | [141] | Hills |
4 | Kevin Dwyer | | 6 January 1954 | 13 December 1954 | 341 days | [142][143] |
5 | Anthony Doherty | | 13 December 1954 | 12 December 1955 | 364 days | [144] |
– | Kevin Dwyer | | 12 December 1955 | 17 December 1956 | 1 year, 5 days | [145] |
– | Jack Byrne | | 17 December 1956 | 17 December 1959 | 3 years, 0 days | [146][147][148] | Jensen |
6 | Francis Joseph Dixon | | 17 December 1959 | 11 December 1961 | 1 year, 359 days | [149] |
7 | Henry Burland | | 11 December 1961 | 16 December 1963 | 2 years, 5 days | [150][151] |
8 | Clifford Noble | | 16 December 1963 | 14 December 1964 | 364 days | [152] |
– | Henry Burland | | 14 December 1964 | 16 December 1965 | 1 year, 2 days | [153] |
9 | Tony Bradford | | 16 December 1965 | 13 November 1967 | 1 year, 332 days | [154] | Armstrong |
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10 | Nicholas Shehadie | | Civic Reform | 7 October 1969 | 24 September 1973 | 3 years, 352 days | [115] | McDermott Griffin |
11 | Barrett Lewis | | 24 September 1973 | 30 September 1974 | 1 year, 6 days | [118] | Shehadie |
12 | Leo Port | | 30 September 1974 | 25 September 1975 | 360 days | [155] |
13 | Andrew Briger | | 25 September 1975 | 27 September 1976 | 1 year, 2 days | [156][157][158] | Port |
– | Barrett Lewis | | 27 September 1976 | 10 October 1977 | 1 year, 13 days | [159] |
14 | Nelson Meers | | 10 October 1977 | November 1978 | 1 year, 28 days | [160] |
15 | Jeremy Bingham | | November 1978 | 20 September 1980 | 1 year, 318 days | [161] | Meers |
– | Tony Bradford | | Labor | 29 September 1980 | 28 September 1981 | 364 days | [162] | Sutherland |
16 | Jack Calpis | | 28 September 1981 | 31 December 1981 | 94 days | [163] |
17 | Bill Hartup | | 4 January 1982 | 13 September 1982 | 252 days | [164] |
– | Tony Bradford | | 13 September 1982 | 29 September 1983 | 1 year, 16 days | [165] |
– | Jack Calpis | | 29 September 1983 | 1 May 1984 | 215 days | [166] |
18 | Stanley Ashmore-Smith | | 1 May 1984 | 16 September 1985 | 1 year, 138 days | [167] |
– | Bill Hartup | | 16 September 1985 | 26 March 1987 | 1 year, 191 days | [168][169][170] |
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19 | Ross Bonthorne | | Civic Reform | 3 January 1989 | 18 September 1991 | 2 years, 258 days | [127] | Bingham |
20 | Henry Tsang | | Labor | 23 September 1991 | 11 September 1999 | 7 years, 353 days | [130] | Sartor |
21 | Lucy Turnbull | | Living Sydney Independents | 18 September 1999 | 7 April 2003 | 3 years, 201 days | [132][133] |
22 | Dixie Coulton | | 7 April 2003 | 14 September 2003 | 305 days | [131][171] | Turnbull |
| Sydney Independents | 14 September 2003 | 6 February 2004 |
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23 | John McInerney | | Clover Moore Independent Team | 19 April 2004 | 12 September 2005 | 1 year, 146 days | [172] | Moore |
24 | Verity Firth | | Labor | 12 September 2005 | 18 September 2006 | 1 year, 6 days | [173] |
25 | Chris Harris | | Greens | 18 September 2006 | 17 September 2007 | 364 days | [174] |
26 | Tony Pooley | | Labor | 17 September 2007 | 13 September 2008 | 362 days | [175] |
27 | Marcelle Hoff | | Clover Moore Independent Team | 29 September 2008 | 21 September 2009 | 357 days | [176] |
28 | Phillip Black | | 21 September 2009 | 13 September 2010 | 357 days | [177] |
– | Marcelle Hoff | | 13 September 2010 | 19 September 2011 | 1 year, 6 days | [178] |
29 | Robert Kok | | 19 September 2011 | 21 September 2012 | 1 year, 2 days | [179] |
30 | Robyn Kemmis | | 21 September 2012 | 26 December 2015 | 3 years, 96 days | [179][180][181] |
31 | Irene Doutney | | Greens | 29 February 2016 | 10 September 2016 | 194 days | [182] |
32 | Kerryn Phelps | | Clover Moore Independent Team | 23 September 2016 | 27 June 2017 | 360 days | [183][184][185] |
| Independent | 27 June 2017 | 18 September 2017 |
33 | Jess Miller | | Clover Moore Independent Team | 18 September 2017 | 17 September 2018 | 364 days | [186][187] |
34 | Linda Scott | | Labor | 17 September 2018 | 9 September 2019 | 357 days | [188] |
35 | Jess Scully | | Clover Moore Independent Team | 9 September 2019 | 19 September 2022 | 3 years, 10 days | [189][190][191][192] |
36 | Sylvie Ellsmore | | Greens | 19 September 2022 | 18 September 2023 | 364 days | [193] |
– | Robert Kok | | Clover Moore Independent Team | 18 September 2023 | Incumbent | 352 days | [194] |
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The first Town Clerk of Sydney was appointed on 3 September 1842 on a provisional basis by the Governor, pending the election of aldermen. When the council was dismissed in December 1853 and replaced by a board of three commissioners, the post of town clerk was left vacant.[195] The Local Government Act, 1993 removed the requirement that the administrative head of a council be a "Town or Shire Clerk" and specified that the head was to be known as the general manager. The Sydney City Council had previously recognised the changing nature of role in appointing their first general manager in December 1992. In May 2005, the title of general manager was changed to chief executive officer (CEO).[196]
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1 | Richard O'Connor | Provisional Town Clerk | 3 September 1842 | 16 November 1842 | 74 days | |
2 | Charles Henry Chambers | Town Clerk | 16 November 1842 | 27 July 1843 | 253 days | |
3 | John Rae | 27 July 1843 | December 1853 | | |
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4 | Charles Henry Woolcott | Town Clerk | 1857 | 1887 | | [197] |
5 | Henry J. Daniels | 1887 | 31 January 1898 | | |
6 | John R. Palmer | 19 July 1898 | 4 October 1899 | 1 year, 77 days | |
7 | Robert Anderson | 24 October 1899 | 25 January 1901 | 1 year, 93 days | |
– | John R. Palmer | Acting Town Clerk | 19 February 1901 | 31 December 1901 | 315 days | |
8 | Thomas Huggins Nesbitt | Town Clerk | 1 January 1902 | 30 June 1924 | 22 years, 181 days | [198][199] |
9 | William Glazebrook Layton | 1 July 1924 | 31 May 1931 | | [200] |
10 | Roy Hendy | 1 June 1931 | 28 February 1956 | 24 years, 272 days |
[201] |
11 | Edward William Adams | 1 March 1956 | July 1962 | | [202] |
12 | Jack Hercules Luscombe | July 1962 | 30 March 1974 | | [203][204] |
13 | Leon Parmeter Carter | 1 April 1974 | August 1992 | | |
14 | Graham Joss | Acting Town Clerk | 17 August 1992 | 4 December 1992 | 109 days | |
15 | Katie Lahey | General Manager | 14 December 1992 | 25 August 1995 | 2 years, 254 days | [205][206] |
16 | Greg Maddock | 1 February 1996 | January 2001 | | |
17 | Murray Douglas | February 2001 | June 2001 | | |
18 | John Kass | Acting General Manager | July 2001 | October 2001 | | |
19 | Robert Domm | General Manager | November 2001 | September 2004 | | [134] |
20 | Petar Vladeta | Acting General Manager | October 2004 | March 2005 | | |
21 | Peter Seamer | General Manager | March 2005 | May 2005 | | [207] |
Chief Executive Officer | May 2005 | April 2006 | 11 months | |
22 | Monica Barone | 7 August 2006 | incumbent | 18 years, 28 days | [208] |
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In 1995, the Local Government Legislation Amendment Act 1995[209] amended the City of Sydney Act 1988, to allow for popular direct elections of the Lord Mayor from September 1995.
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