Abigail Boyd

Abigail Selina Boyd is an Australian politician living on the Central Coast in New South Wales. She has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2019, representing the Greens.

Boyd was a corporate lawyer specialising in global banking regulation before her election.

Boyd's areas of policy interest include climate change, economic inequality, domestic and family violence, animal welfare, disability and young people. before graduating from Macquarie University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), and from the University of New South Wales in 1999 with a Bachelor of Laws. This experience has been critical in her work on reducing economic inequality and developing a progressive economy.

Boyd is currently the Chair of NSW Parliament's Public Accountability and Works Committee, Chair of Portfolio Committee No. 3 – Education, Deputy Chair of the Regulation Committee, Temporary Chair of Committees and a member of the Procedure Committee and the Joint Select Committee on Arts and Music Education and Training in New South Wales. She was previously Chair of Portfolio Committee No. 6 – Transport and a member of the Select Committee on the Greyhound Welfare and Integrity Commission and the Joint Select Committee on Coercive Control. Following the production of those documents, Boyd was successful in establishing an inquiry into residual costs to the NSW Government resulting from those sale arrangements.

In 2019, she fought to revoke the approvals given to the Wallarah 2 coal mine near Wyong with the Central Coast Drinking Water Catchments Protection Bill 2019. The Bill was negatived in November 2019.

In 2020, Boyd put forward a motion pushing for the "complete decarbonisation of our economy and a transition to a jobs-rich future powered by 100 percent renewable energy", done through a Just Transition framework.

In early 2020, she launched a universal basic income initiative known as the Universal Wellbeing Payment and was subsequently a keynote speaker at BIEN's 2022 conference in Brisbane.

After giving notice in June 2020, Boyd introduced the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Amendment (Coercive and Controlling Behaviour) Bill 2020 in November 2020. The Bill, which Boyd consulted on for over a year, seeks to change the law to recognise coercive control as domestic abuse.

In March 2021, Boyd put forward a motion to address sexual assault and harassment in the NSW Parliament, including requiring sexual consent training for all staff, which passed unopposed.

In 2021, she launched a campaign for a Public Bank of NSW.

Boyd has introduced bills in relation to recognising animal sentience, establishing an Independent Office of Animal Welfare, and implementing Whole-of-Life Greyhound Tracking.

In October 2023, Boyd signed an open letter which condemned attacks against Israeli and Palestinian civilians during the Gaza war.