Ben Keneally 2003. However, Labor's affirmative action rules required a female candidate, so he stood down in favour of Kristina. Since retiring from council, Keneally has been an Associate Director for The Boston Consulting Group. Ben Keneally Ben Keneally is an Australian Labor Party politician. He was the Mayor of Botany Bay from 2012–2016. He is the husband of former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally. Keneally grew up in Gladesville, New South Wales. Educated at Holy Cross College, Ryde and the University of Sydney, Keneally previously worked as a management consultant, for Medical Imaging Australia Limited (MIA), as a director within the NSW
Thomas Keneally novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980, Keneally met Pfefferberg in the latter's shop, and learning that he was a novelist, Pfefferburg showed him his extensive files on Oskar Schindler, including the original list itself. Keneally was interested, and Pfefferberg became an advisor for the book, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and the sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated "Schindler's Ark" to Pfefferberg: "who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written." He said in an interview in 2007 that what attracted him to Oskar