Kristina Keneally party room ballot, winning by 47 votes to 21. The Keneally Government went on to suffer a 16.5% swing statewide at the 2011 state election – the biggest swing in Australian political history. She was replaced as leader of the Labor Party by John Robertson, who was elected unopposed, on 31 March 2011. She resigned from parliament in June 2012. In 2014, Keneally joined Sky News Live as a political commentator, later becoming co-host of "To The Point". She took leave in November 2017 to stand as the Labor candidate for the Bennelong by-election, which she lost to previous member
Thomas Keneally He worked as a Sydney schoolteacher before his success as a novelist and was a lecturer at the University of New England (1968–70). His father, Edmund Thomas Keneally, flew for the RAAF in World War II, then returned to work in a small business in Sydney. Keneally was known as "Mick" until 1964 but began using the name Thomas when he started publishing, after advice from his publisher to use what was really his first name. Kenneally's first story was published in the "Bulletin" magazine in 1962 under the pseudonym Bernard Coyle. By February 2014, he had written over 50