Ernest Neville Quinn (3 June 1926 – 24 July 1992) was an Australian politician, elected as a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the western Sydney seat of Wentworthville.
He held the seat for 26 years and was elected nine consecutive times in the period from 1962 until his retirement in 1988.
[1] Initially a member of the NSW Right-wing faction of the Labor Party, Quinn defected to the Left in 1978.
[2] Much of his parliamentary work was focussed on the needs of his electorate, which at the time of his initial election was an unsewered semi-rural area without one single set of traffic lights.
The development and implementation of better infrastructure in the working-class area was the prime focus of Quinn's career.