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Barry O'Keefe
Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
In office
1993–2004
Commissioner of the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption
In office
14 November 1994 – 13 November 1999
Preceded byIan Temby
Succeeded byIrene Moss
Personal details
Born
Barry Stanley John O’Keefe[1]

(1933-05-20)20 May 1933
Waverley, New South Wales, Australia
Died24 April 2014(2014-04-24) (aged 80)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
SpouseJan (née Markovina)
RelationsJohnny O'Keefe (brother)
Children5 including Andrew O'Keefe
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
ProfessionJurist

Barry Stanley John O’Keefe AM QC, (20 May 1933 – 24 April 2014) was an Australian judge and lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1993 to 2004 and the Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) from 1994 until 1999.[2][3]

He also served as the mayor of Mosman. An influential member of Australia's Roman Catholic community, O'Keefe was appointed to the Truth, Justice and Healing Council in 2012, where he organized the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference's response to the findings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. He remained the Chairman of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council until his death in 2014.[2][3]

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  • Hurstville Centenary - 1987
  • Rob Bagnall
  • Paul Delprat

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bjbj Our centenary has been there since March 1987. I was fortunate to be the town clerk of Hurstville municipal council as it was then, at that time and I consider that a privilege to be involved. As town clerk I was required to make reports to the council and suggest ways in which celebrations could be organised and as it turned out we had a yearlong party which was absolutely fantastic. The actual date of the original proclamation of the Hurstville municipality was the 25th of March 1987. So exactly 100 years later on the 25th of March 1987 the council will hold a special council meeting to commemorate the proclamation. The very operative word that the [misunderstood 1:41- 1:58] The first formation of [ ] at Hurstville municipal council was held at the Blue post in which was a popular meeting place. It was in Forest Road opposite where Hurstville Public School stands now. There were eighteen candidates, nine of whom were elected. A special guest at the meeting was Barry O Keefe, president of the New South Wales library government of RCAC. animals and farm, the staple diet of the place now known as Hurstville. A name which came to it because a respective school decided in 1876, that the school in the area should bear that name. Why that name is hard to tell. Hurst is said to be an English word meaning high ground and ville of course, the village of. From that it s derived or not, I don t know but it s a comfortable way or deriving its name. During that meeting, Barry O Keefe presented the council with the [ ] of arms and it was the first time that the [ ] of arms and the coat of arms were displayed publicly together with the municipal flag. The sportsman dinner was a remarkable event but the capacity it housed, I must confess that whilst I always knew that St George and Hurstville have great sporting conditions, I was amazed on the night at the depth of sporting achievement in this area. There was champion after champion, gold medallist after gold medallist that was brought forward, presented with a medallion and it stretched virtually back to the turn of the century. The greatest satisfaction from [ ] effort and it was a big effort and a lot of work for a lot of people was that the community didn t respond to what was done and they turned out literarily in their thousands. The St George Great Train Festival, for example, it s estimated through that week there were 100, 000 people who attended and took part in it. Hurstville has got some connections with railways and it was the first line to be electrified in a railway line to Hurstville. So it was from a very, very small beginning but the festival started to be put together the enthusiasts involved in it and the result from all those efforts was the festival, the gray festival that attracted virtually international attention and certainly national attention. Through the weekdays there were steam train rides predominantly for the children of the area and as I recall during the week there were 8,000 school children that took part in that and had the excitement of having a ride on a steam train probably for the first time in their life. Another part of the train festival activities was the train [ s dinner and that was an exciting night comprising people at that dinner and we were head over heels in love with trains and night went on and on and on with speaker after speaker reminiscing about their experiences with trains. One of the speakers on that night was Jack Sparks who helped organise the train festival because Jack was the original driver of 3801. The main aim we wanted to achieve was to involve the community and in retrospect, we did that, much better than we imagined we would at the time. A lot of credit for that goes to the council but secondly to the magnificent community committee that was formed. The major outcome of the whole year s activities really was the depth of feeling in the community for Hurstville. People are very much involved with this community and the celebrations that the council put on, became a focus for that involvement. It was obvious with the huge participation in every event that was put on. It was good that people were interested in what we were doing. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you here tonight. Quite a number of sporting events were [ ] through the year. We had a horse race named after us in Randwick which was a pretty enjoyable day and that rush was the Hurstville hundred. The twin town idea was through these [..] and it was based on the origins of both Timber town and Hurstville. Of course Timber town was located in Hasting Shire with Port Macquarie. The long term benefit really is that it highlights how far the area had travelled in 100 years since its beginning and they ve come a very long way and the celebrations pointed to the future of Hurstville and a very rosy future that it s got and the people here are capable of doing even bigger and better things in the next 100 years. hPG~ [Content_Types].xml Iw}, $yi} _rels/.rels theme/theme/themeManager.xml sQ}# theme/theme/theme1.xml w toc'v )I`n 3Vq%'#q :\TZaG L+M2 e\O* $*c? )6-r IqbJ#x ,AGm T[XF64 E)`# R>QD =(K& =al- 4vfa 0%M0 theme/theme/_rels/themeManager.xml.rels 6?$Q K(M&$R(.1 [Content_Types].xmlPK _rels/.relsPK theme/theme/themeManager.xmlPK theme/theme/theme1.xmlPK theme/theme/_rels/themeManager.xml.relsPK <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <a:clrMap xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main" bg1="lt1" tx1="dk1" bg2="lt2" tx2="dk2" accent1="accent1" accent2="accent2" accent3="accent3" accent4="accent4" accent5="accent5" accent6="accent6" hlink="hlink" folHlink="folHlink"/> Normal Microsoft Office Word Title Microsoft Office Word 97-2003 Document MSWordDoc Word.Document.8

Biography

O'Keefe's father was Ray O'Keefe, a former Mayor of Waverley Municipal Council, and a furniture salesperson. Barry O'Keefe was the brother of the late rock singer, Johnny O'Keefe, who died in 1978. Their parents sent both brothers to Waverley College, a private Roman Catholic school. Both Barry and John then earned Commonwealth scholarships to the University of Sydney, where Barry O'Keefe studied law. O'Keefe was admitted to the New South Wales Bar Association in 1958 and appointed to Queen's Counsel in 1974.[2][3]

In 1977, O'Keefe was elected to the Mosman Municipal Council, a position he held for thirteen years, including three terms as the Mayor of Mosman.[2]

He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1993, where he headed its Commercial law Division,[3] and was an additional judge of the Court of Appeal, and as a judge of the Common Law Division and the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal.

In 1989, O'Keefe received the Order of Australia. He was also inducted as a Freedom of the City of London in 1991 and was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003.[3] A former president of the Local Government Association of NSW and President of the National Trust of Australia in NSW from 1991 until 2006, O’Keefe was also an energetic member of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Australian Catholic University. Two days before O’Keefe's death, Pope Francis created him a Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Order of St Gregory the Great.[1]

O'Keefe died on 24 April 2014, at the age of 80. He was survived by his wife, and their five children including former television host Andrew O'Keefe.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b O'Keefe, Philip; McCann, Kevin (23 May 2014). "Obituary: Barry O'Keefe: A life of public service for 'the Mild One'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e Murphy, Damien (26 April 2014). "Former ICAC chief Barry O'Keefe dies aged 80". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Former NSW Supreme Court judge Barry O'Keefe dies". ABC News. Australia. 26 April 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
Civic offices
Preceded by
Peter Mellish
Mayor of Mosman
1978–1983
Succeeded by
Peter Abelson
Preceded by
Peter Abelson
Mayor of Mosman
1985–1986
Succeeded by
Dominic Lopez
Preceded by
Dominic Lopez
Mayor of Mosman
1987–1990
Succeeded by
Peter Clive
Legal offices
Preceded by Commissioner of the Independent Commission
Against Corruption

1994–1999
Succeeded by
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