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About Laurie McGinty
- Laurence Frederick McGinty MBE (16 January 1921 – 2 July 1991) was an Australian politician.
- He was the member for Willoughby in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1968 to 1978, firstly as a member of the Liberal Party and then as an Independent from 1977.
- He was Minister for Housing and Co-operative Societies from 1973 to 1976. McGinty was born in Orange to Laurence Russell Leonard McGinty and Ellen Margaret Elizabeth Magee.
- He was educated at Christian Brothers High School at Lewisham and St Joseph's College at Hunters Hill before studying at the University of Sydney, where he received a Bachelor of Laws in 1944, having worked as an assessor for the Taxation Department from 1939 to 1942.
- He enlisted in the army in 1942, shortly afterwards transferring to the Royal Australian Navy, eventually becoming a lieutenant.
- After his return he was a legal officer with T.S.
- Skillman and Company from 1947 until 1955, when he was admitted as a solicitor.
- He was elected to Willoughby Council in 1957 and was Mayor from 1960 to 1967.
- He was also active in the local Liberal Party.In 1968, following the retirement of long-serving Liberal MP George Brain, McGinty was preselected as the Liberal candidate for Willoughby.
- In 1973 he was made Minister for Housing and Co-operative Services, holding these portfolios until 1976.
- He lost preselection for Willoughby in September 1977 to Nick Greiner and resigned from the Liberal Party, sitting as an Independent.
- He contested the election as such and received 15.5% of the vote, allowing Labor candidate Eddie Britt to defeat Greiner.
- He died in 1991 at Castle Cove.
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