2006 National President of the ALP

Warren Mundine was born in Grafton, NSW, the ninth child of eleven children to Olive Bridgette (Dolly) Mundine (nee Donovan) and Roy Mundine. Dolly is a Gumbayngirr woman and Roy a Bundjalung man. Warren was brought up in a proud Aboriginal family with strong Labor and Catholic beliefs.

Warren is the Chief Executive Officer of NSW Native Title Services Ltd., Chair of NSW Labor's Indigenous Policy Committee, a member of the Australian Workers Union, the former Deputy Mayor of Dubbo and former Chair of NSW Country Labor.

He also is an Executive member of the St. Joseph's College Indigenous Fund, a Board member of NAISDA and had previously served on the NSW PCYC State Board, as President of the NSW Local Government Aboriginal Network, as an Executive member of the Local Government Association of NSW, as a commissioner with the NSW Local Government Grants Commission. Warren formerly was also a member of the NSW Attorney General's Juvenile Crime Prevention Committee.