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Full Name
  
Courtney Roche

Name
  
Courtney Houssos

Role
  
Politician

Spouse(s)
  
George Houssos

Party
  
Australian Labor Party

Children
  
One daughter


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Education
  
University of New South Wales

Profiles


Political party
  
Australian Labor Party

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Courtney Houssos is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since the 2015 state election.

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Houssos was born Courtney Roche in Forster, New South Wales. She was educated at Forster High School. She later studied for a Bachelor of Arts in international relations at the University of New South Wales, where she met her future husband, George Houssos. At university, she entered student politics as a member of the student representative council protesting against university fee reform, and continued in politics as the first female Labor Party organiser for country New South Wales.

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In 2014, the New South Wales Labor Party removed Amanda Fazio from the party's upper house ticket at the 2015 state election, and Houssos was preselected to replace her. She was elected as the youngest Labor member of the Legislative Council.

References

Courtney Houssos Wikipedia