Sally Sitou | |
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![]() Sitou in 2023 | |
Member of the Australian Parliament for Reid | |
Assumed office 21 May 2022 | |
Preceded by | Fiona Martin |
Personal details | |
Born | Canley Vale,New South Wales [1] ,Australia | 24 September 1982
Political party | Labor |
Website | https://sallysitou.com/ |
Sally Sitou (born 24 September 1982) is an Australian politician. She currently serves as a member of parliament for the Australian Labor Party,representing the western Sydney seat of Reid.
She was elected at the 2022 Australian federal election,defeating the incumbent Liberal member,Fiona Martin. [2]
Sitou was born in Canley Vale,New South Wales,the second child of Chinese Laotian parents who fled Laos after the Vietnam War. [3]
She attended Canley Vale Public School and Sefton High School,completing a bachelor degree in Psychology at Macquarie University in 2005. [4] [5] Following this,she worked in international development and international education for more than ten years,including a period of time at the Department of Foreign Affairs. [6] Prior to becoming a politician,she was a doctoral researcher at the University of Sydney. [3]
She is married with one child. [7]
Sitou joined the Australian Labor Party in 2006 and worked on the 2007 Bennelong campaign in which Maxine McKew defeated sitting prime minister John Howard. [8] She also worked as an adviser to Jason Clare,member for Blaxland. [6]
In 2021,Sitou was preselected as the Labor candidate for the Division of Reid. [9] She achieved a swing of 8.4 percent to win the seat in the May 2022 federal election. [10]