Jo Briskey

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Jo Briskey
MP
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Briskey in 2025
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Maribyrnong
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 May 2025 (2025-05-03)
OccupationAdvocate, Psychologist, Trade Unionist
Website jobriskey.com.au

Joanna Leigh Briskey is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Parliament for the Division of Maribyrnong after winning the seat in the 2025 Australian federal election. [1]

She ran in the 2012 Queensland state election as Labor's candidate in Cleveland, previously held by her father Darryl Briskey. [2] She is a member of the Labor Left. [3]

Before entering Parliament she was a national coordinator with the United Workers Union. [4]

Briskey serves on the House of Representatives Standing Committee: Regional Development, Infrastructure and Transport. As well as on the Joint Standing Committees: Trade and Investment Growth, and Treaties.[5]

She is a member of the United Workers Union, Electrical Trades Union, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, and the Community and Public Sector Union. [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Maribyrnong Federal Election 2025 Results". www.abc.net.au. 2 May 2025. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Maribyrnong Federal Election 2025 Results". www.abc.net.au. 2 May 2025. Archived from the original on 6 April 2025. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
  3. ↑ Karp, Paul (5 September 2024). "Labor factions draw battle lines for Maribyrnong seat after Bill Shorten's retirement from politics". The Guardian . Archived from the original on 22 May 2025. Retrieved 22 May 2025. From the left faction, Briskey is a former chief executive of not-for-profit The Parenthood and organiser in the Queensland United Voice branch, understood to have support from the Queensland powerbroker Gary Bullock.
  4. ↑ "Labor firms on Queenslander to replace Victorian Bill Shorten". Australian Financial Review. 9 September 2024. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
  5. ↑ https://www.aph.gov.au/-/media/03_Senators_and_Members/32_Members/Register/48p/AB/Briskey_48P.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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Preceded by Member for Maribyrnong
2025–present		Incumbent
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