Moins d'un mois plus tard, Keneally conteste et défait Rees pour devenir le 42e Premier ministre de la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud et la première femme, et la première ancienne Américaine, à occuper ce poste.
Kristina Kerscher Keneally -LRB- born 19 December 1968 -RRB- is an American born Australian politician and the 42nd Premier of New South Wales. On 3 December 2009 the Australian Labor Party caucus elected Keneally to replace Nathan Rees as leader of the parliamentary party and she became the first woman Premier of the State of New South Wales.