Bryce James Gaudry (23 November 1942 – 4 October 2019) was an Australian politician who served as the member forNewcastle in theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Gaudry was educated atKendall District Rural School,Taree High School andNewcastle Teachers' College.[1] He received aBachelor of Arts from theUniversity of New South Wales andMacquarie University and became a physical education teacher. He was married with two adult children.
Gaudry represented Newcastle for theLabor Party from 1991 to 2007.[2] He was associated with thesoft left of NSW Labor. In May 2003 he was appointed as aparliamentary secretary by New South Wales PremierBob Carr following thestate election earlier that year.[3] In 2006, the Labor Party State Executive deselected him in favour of theLabor Right-alignedJodi McKay,[4] the preferred candidate of then-premierMorris Iemma.[5] The deselection occurred after Gaudry had revealed that the Labor government were planning to privatise the state's electricity system. The controversy around the selection led to around 130 members of the Newcastle ALP branches, then the largest in the state, leaving or being expelled.[4] On 29 January 2007, Gaudry announced his resignation from the Labor Party and his intention to run as an independent candidate at the next state election. Gaudry was subsequently defeated in the2007 general election by the new Labor candidate, Jodi McKay. However, McKay lost the seatat the following election in 2011.[4]
Gaudry died on 4 October 2019 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.[6]
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