Frank Sartor

Francesco Ernest Frank Sartor AO a former Australian politician, was New South Wales Minister for Climate Change and the Environment and Minister Assisting the Minister for Health between 2009 and 2011. He was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Rockdale for the Australian Labor Party between 2003 and 2011. Sartor has previously been Minister for Planning, Redfern Waterloo and the Arts, and Minister for Water and Utilities in the Iemma and Carr governments. Before being elected to the New South Wales Parliament, Sartor was the longestserving Lord Mayor of Sydney, having held the post for nearlyyears from September 1991 to March 2003. Sartor retired from politics at the 2011 state election.

Sartor was born in Yenda near Griffith, New South Wales. His migrant parents named him Francesco Ernest Sartor, but he decided life would be easier if he called himself Frank. He attended St Thereses Primary School, Yenda, followed by Griffith High School. His mother died of melanoma when Sartor was 16.

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