NSW election: Who is Labor Leader Chris Minns wife Anna?

Despite having gone through weeks of non-stop campaigning for the state election, NSW Labor Leader Chris Minns has revealed the other part of his life that was “more difficult than this campaign”.

News.com.au sat down with Mr Minns and his wife Anna in their Kogarah home ahead of the election, which Labor has won in a landslide after less than three hours of counting.

The couple share three boys together and, while Mr Minns is now set to be the next state premier, there was a time when he stepped back from his career to be the primary carer for his children.

“The circumstances were that Anna, who is a wonderful small-business woman, brought a company from America to Australia and was working 24 hours a day it seemed like and her career was taking off. It was amazing,” he explained.

This company was TerraCycle, which lets consumers recycle things like soft plastics, face masks, and cosmetics that would otherwise end up in landfill.

With Anna’s career taking off, Mr Minns said he would “step in and take over the kids”, she said.

“I think it was for about a year in the end,” Anna said, to which Mr Minns jokingly claimed it “felt like 10”.

“I think it was good for everybody,” she said.

For Mr Minns, afternoons were the most challenging part of the day when the kids would go “absolutely nuts just before dinner.

“I remember we would like hide in the front yard when Anna would come walking up the street from the train station, just trying to scare her just to fill in an hour,” he said.

“Anyway, it was more difficult than this election campaign.”

Anna Minns’ impressive career history

Bringing TerraCycle to Australia and New Zealand is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Anna’s impressive career.

Most recently she is the CEO and co-founder of Boomerang Labs, a company that helps connect organisations and government bodies with “founders and innovators to tackle challenges of design, resource use and resource recovery in their organisations and supply chains”.

The company is described as the “first circular economy accelerator” in Australia.

Before moving into the sustainability and environmental space, the mum-of-three also worked as a criminal prosecutor for the Department of Public Prosecutions.

But Anna has also long held an interest in politics, which is how she met Mr Minns.

While studying arts and graduate law at the University of NSW, Anna joined Young Labor, the youth wing of the ALP, after developing an interest in political science.

In 1999, while helping Bob Carr campaign for a second term, she was introduced to another volunteer: her now-husband Chris Minns.

Speaking to NCA NewsWire last month, Mr Minns described Anna as the unseen force driving him to the finish line of the election campaign.

“We’re a team,” he said.

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“She does a lot for me and for us. I really rely on her. I really love her.”

The NSW Labor Leader said juggling work and family life has been a challenge throughout the campaign and something he couldn’t have done without the support of his wife.

“I don’t know what she will do when this is all done, but if I can be there for her (career), I definitely will,” he said.

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