Sally Sitou

Sally Sitou
MP
Sitou in 2023
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Reid
Incumbent
Assumed office
21 May 2022
Preceded byFiona Martin
Personal details
Born (1982-09-24) 24 September 1982 (age 42)
Canley Vale, New South Wales[1]
NationalityAustralian
Political partyLabor Party
Websitehttps://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]

Early years and background

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]

Politics

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]

References

  1. ^ "Ms Sally Sitou MP". Senators and Members of the Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  2. ^ Pueblos, Monique (22 May 2022). "'A surreal moment': Sally Sitou celebrates diversity in parliament as she claims victory in Reid". SBS News. Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Sally Sitou, Candidate for Reid". Archived from the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  4. ^ Sitou, Sally. "I am the daughter of migrants". Twitter. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Sally Sitou – Labor for Reid". www.alp.org.au. Archived from the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Meet Sally". sallysitou.com. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  7. ^ McKew, Maxine. "Some Labor wins are extra special". Twitter. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Labor candidate calls out racist messages telling her not to contest election". SBS News. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  9. ^ MP, Anthony Albanese. "Labor Announces Candidate for Reid". anthonyalbanese.com.au. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  10. ^ "Reid (Key Seat) - Federal Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.

 

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2022–present 		Incumbent
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