Barry Collier was the Labor MP for the southern Sydney seat of Miranda in the NSW Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2011. Having retired after three terms, he returned to Parliament in 2013 with a record 27% by-election swing against the Liberal Government. A barrister and former high school Economics teacher, Barry Collier was awarded the Order of Australia Medal 'for service to the Parliament of New South Wales, to the law and to education' in 2017.