John Kaye

John Kaye is an Australian politician. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council at the 2007 state election. He was the Greens second candidate on a ticket headed by sitting MLC Lee Rhiannon.

Kaye is a former teacher and researcher in electrical engineering at the University of New South Wales where he specialised in sustainable energy and greenhouse issues. He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and over twenty years of research and teaching experience. He is a vocal critic of electricity industry privatisation and a strong advocate for renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Kaye is a longstanding prominent member of The Greens: he has been the Education Spokesperson for the Greens New South Wales and in this capacity has often been quoted by NSW media such as The Sydney Morning Herald. In the 2004 federal election he was the Greens lead candidate for the Australian Senate from New South Wales. Kaye increased the Greens vote in NSW to 7.3% of the primary vote (291,845 votes), however he received less-favourable preference flows than those that elected Kerry Nettle in 2001 thus he failed to gain a seat by a margin of 0.5% of the total vote.

Kaye is Jewish, and a member of Independent Australian Jewish Voices, an organisation critical of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.

References

* [http://johnkaye.org.au/ John Kaye's homepage]

External links

* [http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2004/results/sendNSW.htm The ABC's Antony Green's 2004 NSW senate election analysis]