A State Funeral for Professor the Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO will take place on Wednesday, 4 February 2026 at St James\u2019 Church, King Street, Sydney at 10:30am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dame Marie Bashir served our state with distinction as the 37th<\/sup> Governor of New South Wales from March 2001 to October 2014 and was the first woman to be appointed to the role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She bought immense dignity and compassion to the role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She passed away in Sydney on 20 January 2026, aged 95, surrounded by family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She was a distinguished psychiatrist and a long-standing advocate for mental health, education and social inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The people of New South Wales held Dame Marie in great respect and affection, reflecting the trust and goodwill she earned over a lifetime of service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A large screen will be available in Martin Place for members of the public wishing to pay their respects and watch the State Funeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The service will also be available to watch online on the NSW Government website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All details of the State Funeral can be found at: https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/mariebashir<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A State Funeral for Professor the Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO will take place on Wednesday, 4 February 2026 at St James\u2019 Church, King Street, Sydney at 10:30am. Dame Marie Bashir served our state with distinction as the 37th Governor of New South Wales from March 2001 to October 2014 and was the first woman … Continue reading “Details of State Funeral for Professor the Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37097,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37096\/revisions\/37097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}