Sally Sitou | |
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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] | 24 September 1982
Nationality | Australian |
Political party | Labor Party |
Website | https://sallysitou.com/ |
Sally Sitou (born 24 September 1982[ citation needed ]) is an Australian politician who is the Labor member for the Division of Reid as of the 2022 Australian federal election. She defeated the incumbent Liberal member,Fiona Martin. [2]
Sitou was born in Canley Vale,New South Wales,the second child of Chinese parents who fled Laos after the Vietnam War. [3] She went to Canley Vale Public School and Sefton High School and completed a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology –Honours) at Macquarie University. [4] She spent more than a decade working in the international education and international development sectors,and was most recently employed at the University of Sydney. [5]
She is married with one child. [6]
Sitou has been a member of the Australian Labor Party since 2006,working on a number of campaigns,including the 2007 Bennelong campaign in which Maxine McKew defeated sitting prime minister John Howard. [7] She worked as an adviser to Jason Clare,member for Blaxland. [8]
In 2021,Sitou was preselected as the ALP's candidate for the Division of Reid, [9] and she achieved a swing of 8.4 percent to win the seat in the May 2022 federal election. [10]
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