Who is the member for balmain

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Jamie Parker. MP for Balmain. He claims Balmain has become "Greens heartland" in the seven years since he unseated Ms Firth in — a victory which cemented him in the history books as the party's first-ever lower house MP.

Credit: James Brickwood. In , he thwarted a comeback attempt by Ms Firth, and his margin now nudges five per cent. But a third-straight victory would go a long to way to extinguishing the murmurings that Balmain's green tinge is a passing flirtation, and prodigal Labor voters will soon return home.

Ms Howse is no stranger to campaigning. She joined young Labor while studying at the University of Sydney, and cut her political teeth in campus politics, ultimately becoming president of the Sydney University SRC in As a volunteer on Ms Firth's ill-fated re-election campaign, she had a ringside seat as the then-education minister conceded defeat to Mr Parker. Mr Parker may have been a newcomer to state politics when he took his seat in NSW Legislative Assembly in , but he was no political novice.

Nor did he face - as Ms Howse does - the added challenge of being largely unknown to the electorate. He served on Leichhardt Council for 13 years, including a term as mayor, before quitting local politics in Apparatchiks in Labor's Sussex Street headquarters are also war-gaming plans for two other lower house seats snapped up by the Greens in — Ballina and Newtown. Shadow Minister for Water and Infrastructure from Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport from Shadow Minister for Tourism from Shadow Minister for Cities from Leader of the Opposition from Party positions Member of the Australian Labor Party from Personal Born 2.

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