Clement Arundel Newton-Brown (born 3 September 1967) is an Australian former politician who served as the member for

Prahran Prahran (), also pronounced colloquially as Pran, is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City ...

in the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding ...

Political career

Prior to his election, he worked as a barrister, specialising in planning law as well as running a series of small businesses—including the first Yarra River water taxi service, BBQ Boats and a café on an island under the Southgate footbridge. He was elected the youngest ever Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne in 1999 at 32 years of age. Newton-Brown stood for the seat of Prahran in 2006 but was unsuccessful. At the 2010 Victorian election, he ran a high-profile campaign and defeated two-term Labor Party member, Tony Lupton. He lost the seat at the 2014 Victorian election to the Greens candidate

Sam Hibbins Samuel Peter Hibbins (born 18 February 1982) is an Australian politician. He has been a Australian Greens Victoria, Greens member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2014, representing the electoral district of Prahran. Along wi ...

. It was only the second Victorian Lower House seat to be won by the Greens.

Post Politics

From 2018 onwards, he founded Skyportz, a company working on urban infrastructure for flying taxis.

Personal life

Newton-Brown was born in Hawthorn and is a long-term resident of

. He graduated with a degrees in Law and Arts from Monash University in 1991. In 2019 he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to the Victorian Parliament and the community of Melbourne. Clem is married with 3 teenage children.

References

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