Meryl Swanson

Meryl Jane Swanson (born 3 September 1970) is an Australian politician who has represented the Division of Paterson in the Australian House of Representatives for the Australian Labor Party since the 2016 federal election.

Swanson has spent many years in radio broadcasting in Melbourne and Newcastle, and most recently worked for station 2NUR. She also worked for Hunter MP Joel Fitzgibbon in Canberra in the 1990s. She has also worked as business manager at the Hunter Regional Organisation of Councils and as executive director of Hunter Tourism.