Michael John Daley (born 1 November 1965[1]) is an Australian politician and has been the Attorney-General of New South Wales since 28 March 2023.

He was previously the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of New South Wales from November 2018 to March 2019.

He is the member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Maroubra for the Australian Labor Party since 2005.

[4][5] In 1998, having completed his legal studies he was admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales as a legal practitioner and began to pursue a career as a lawyer, and worked for a year in a law firm in central Sydney before spending five years as a senior in-house lawyer with NRMA Motoring and Services.

On 19 March 2019, a few days before the state election, a video from September 2018 surfaced in which Daley made comments about Asian immigration in Sydney.

[14] On 4 June 2021, he pulled out of the leadership contest, allowing Chris Minns to be elected leader unopposed.