Meredith Anne Burgmann AM (born 26 July 1947) is an Australian politician and Labor Party member and a former President of the New South Wales Legislative Council.

[2] She attended Sydney University and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1969, majoring in English and Government.

[7] As an upper house member of parliament, she served as the chair on the Parliamentary Privileges and Ethics Committee.

In that committee, she led an inquiry into certain paedophile conspiracy allegations made by the former politician Franca Arena.

[8] It was generally acknowledged that the committee observed procedural fairness during that inquiry[8] and that her time as a politician has shown her to be an "independent and intellectual member" of the New South Wales Parliament.

[1] As President, she continued to reduce the size and the scale of the traditional opening of State Parliament.

[2][10] She further angered monarchists by ordering the removal of the Queen's portrait from the President's Office and replacing it with an Aboriginal dot painting.

In 1998 Burgmann and her sister Verity wrote Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation.