Luke Foley took which position in Nov 2018?
Luke Foley Luke Aquinas Foley ( born 27 July 1970 ) is a former Australian Labor Party politician who served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of New South Wales from 2015 to 2018 . Foley was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 19 June 2010 until his resignation to contest the Legislative Assembly seat of Auburn at the 2015 New South Wales election . Foley resigned after it was alleged that he had indecently assaulted an ABC journalist . Foley denies the allegations . Early years and education . Foley was born in Sydney and from the age of seven was raised solely by his mother . In an interview conducted when he became NSW Opposition Leader , Foley stated his mother instilled in him a triple faith of the Labor Party , the Catholic Church and the Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Club . Foley was active in student representative politics at university and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales , the first in his family to attend university . Foley is a keen cricketer . In 1999 he worked as an accredited Triple J cricket correspondent reporting from the Australian/West Indies series in the Caribbean . Career . Starting his working life while a student as a telemarketer for the Guide Dog Association of NSW 1988–90 , Foley became NSW President of the National Union of Students 1991 , and then worked in the office of Labor Senator Bruce Childs 1992–96 . Between 1996 and 2000 , he was a union organiser with the NSW branch of the Australian Services Union and became Secretary of that branch between 2000 and 2003 . This involved representing the interests of charity and drug and alcohol rehabilitation workers . Referring to that period in his first speech in the NSW Parliament , Foley stated : A member of Labors left faction , before his appointment to the Legislative Council , Foley was the assistant general secretary of the New South Wales Labor Party from 2003 to 2010 . Foley was a sportswriter for The Punch from 2009 . Political career . Foley was appointed to the Legislative Council to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ian Macdonald . He describes himself as a practising Catholic on the Left of politics Foley voted in favour of same sex adoption bill in 2010 and in 2015 announced his support behind federal legislation for same-sex marriage . Foley said : I have an open mind . I continue to talk to many people , including gay and lesbian friends of mine about this issue . Following the resignation of John Robertson as leader of the parliamentary Labor Party , Foley contested the leadership in the vote held on 5 January 2015 . After the withdrawal of Michael Daley and Steve Whan as leadership contenders , Foley was elected unopposed . He was endorsed as the Labor candidate for the safe Labor seat of Auburn at the 2015 state election , after the incumbent member Barbara Perry stood aside to allow him to transfer to the lower house from the Legislative Council . He went on to win the seat , however , with a small swing against his party in the electorate . Foley did manage to pick up a 14-seat swing , and recovered much of what Labor had lost four years earlier . Notably , Labor regained many seats in its longstanding heartlands of west Sydney , the Central Coast , and the Hunter that had been swept up by the Coalition . It reduced the Coalition majority from 22 seats to seven . In October 2018 , NSW Corrections Minister David Elliott raised an allegation in the Legislative Assembly about an incident where Foley had a little bit too much to drink at a party and harassed an ABC journalist . Later that month , ABC journalist Ashleigh Raper released a statement , alleging that at an event in November 2016 , Foley placed his hand down the back of her dress and inside her underpants . Hours later , Foley read a statement in which he resigned as leader of the Labor Party , but denied the allegation and said he would commence defamation proceedings against Raper in the Federal Court . Later in November , he dropped the case against Raper . Views . Foley has stated his values are social democratic values : In 2018 , Foley talked about White flight . He was condemned by Premier Gladys Berejiklian for his view that an influx of people of non-European descent had driven many Anglo Australians to leave parts of Sydney . Personal life . Foley is married to Edel McKenna and they have three children . Foley is a member of the Summer Hill Seniors Cricket Club , a member of the Sydney Cricket Ground since 1992 , and an executive member of the Victor Trumper Society . He is also a supporter of the Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Club .