Warren Mundine

Warren Mundine
Mundine on The Long Walk in 2014
National President of the Labor Party
In office
26 January 2006 – 10 January 2007
Preceded byBarry Jones
Succeeded byJohn Faulkner
Personal details
Born
Nyunggai Warren Stephen Mundine

(1956-08-11) 11 August 1956 (age 68)
Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Political partyLiberal (since 2019)
Other political
affiliations
Labor (1995–2012)
Spouses
Jenny Ross
(m. 1975; div. 1982)
(m. 1984; div. 2008)
Elizabeth Henderson
(m. 2013)
Children10

Nyunggai Warren Stephen Mundine AO (born 11 August 1956) is an Australian businessman, political strategist, advocate for Indigenous affairs, and former politician. Starting his political career in 1995, Mundine became the first Indigenous person to serve on the City Council of Dubbo in New South Wales. He was the national president of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2006 to 2007 but quit the party in 2012. In 2013, Mundine was appointed chairman of the Coalition government's Indigenous Advisory Council by then-prime minister, Tony Abbott. Mundine was the Liberal Party's unsuccessful candidate for the marginal seat of Gilmore on the south coast of New South Wales in the 2019 Australian federal election.

As of 2023, Mundine was a lead campaigner for the successful "No" campaign in the lead-up to the 2023 Australian referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

He holds various roles in Indigenous initiatives, including Andrew Forrest's Generation One, and received the Officer of the Order of Australia in 2016.