Preceded by Verity Firth Nationality Australian Majority 4.9 points (2015) Alma mater Macquarie University | Preceded by Carolyn Allen Name Jamie Parker Succeeded by Rochelle Porteous | |
Full Name Jamie Thomas Parker Role Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Office Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 2011 Education Macquarie University, Thammasat University, University of Sydney Profiles | ||
Political party Greens New South Wales | ||
Jamie Thomas Parker is the member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Balmain for the Greens since 2011. Parker is the first Green to represent his party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
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Personal
Parker was marketing manager of Cat Media, a company which was the subject of 41 complaints upheld by the Therapeutic Goods Administration between 2000 and 2006 for misleading advertising and exploiting consumers. Parker denied responsibility, saying "It wasn't my role to be putting together advertising and copywriting, I was positioning the stuff in pharmacies".
Political career
Parker has been active in social justice and environmental issues for many years and while at university was elected the NSW president and subsequently the national environment officer of the National Union of Students.
Parker stood for and was elected to Leichhardt Council in 1999 as a Green. Parker was subsequently re-elected in 2004 and 2008. While on Council he has served as chair of the Environment Committee, as deputy mayor and, since 2008, as the mayor of Leichhardt. He retired from Council at the 2012 election.
Parker has served as the convenor (state party chairman) of the NSW Greens.
Parker won the seat of Balmain from Labor's Verity Firth at the 2011 State election. He is the first member of the NSW Greens to sit in the Lower House of the New South Wales Parliament.