Elizabeth Farrelly

Dr Elizabeth Farrelly
Councillor of the City of Sydney
In office
1991–1995
Personal details
BornDunedin, New Zealand
Political partyElizabeth Farrelly Independents (2022–present)
Other political
affiliations		Independent (1991–2021, 2022)
Labor (2021)
ResidenceHomebush, New South Wales[1]
Alma materUniversity of Sydney (PhD)
OccupationWriter and academic

Elizabeth Margaret Farrelly (born Dunedin, New Zealand), is a Sydney-based author, architecture critic, essayist, columnist and speaker who was born in New Zealand but later became an Australian citizen. She has contributed to current debates about aesthetics and ethics; design, public art and architecture; urban and natural environments; society and politics, including criticism of the treatment of Julian Assange.[2][3][4][5] Profiles of her have appeared in the New Zealand Architect, Urbis, The Australian Financial Review, the Australian Architectural Review, and Australian Geographic.

Farrelly's range of interests and contributions are wide enough to have caused her to be described by broadcaster Geraldine Doogue as a "Renaissance woman".[6] She was elected to the 2021 board of the National Trust of Australia (NSW).[7]

Her portrait by Mirra Whale was a finalist in the 2015 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[8]

  1. ^ "Candidates – Legislative Council Group H: ELIZABETH FARRELLY INDEPENDENTS". Elections NSW. New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Elizabeth Farrelly". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
  3. ^ Farrelly, Elizabeth (12 April 2012). "Truth of Assange is stranger than fiction". The National Times. Retrieved 29 November 2012. In the case of Assange, truth is actively and repeatedly punished
  4. ^ Farrelly, Elizabeth (29 November 2012). "Ambassador's rage doesn't dispel facts". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 November 2012. Assange had not been charged with any crime
  5. ^ Farrelly, Elizabeth (29 February 2020). "The only questions that should matter in the Assange extradition battle". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  6. ^ Doogue, Geraldine (12 September 2009). "Creative Thinking: Elizabeth Farrelly". Interview (and transcript). ABC Radio National. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
  7. ^ "The National Trust of Australia (NSW) Board Members 2021". National Trust. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Archibald Prize Finalists: Elizabeth". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 July 2015.