Joanna Elizabeth Haylen is an Australian politician who was elected to the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...

as the member for Summer Hill for the Labor Party at the

2015 New South Wales state election A general election for the 56th Parliament of New South Wales (NSW) was held on Saturday 28 March 2015. Members were elected to all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly using optional preferential voting. Members were also elected to 21 of ...

. She is currently the state's

Minister for Transport A ministry of transport or transportation is a ministry responsible for transportation within a country. It usually is administered by the ''minister for transport''. The term is also sometimes applied to the departments or other government ag ...

since March 2023.

Early life

Haylen grew up on Sydney's North Shore. She attended Artarmon Public and

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. She graduated from the

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with a

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Career

Haylen served as youngest ever female Mayor of

Marrickville Marrickville is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Marrickville is located south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the largest suburb in the Inner West Council local gove ...

from 2013 to 2014. She previously worked as a director of administration in the office of former prime minister Julia Gillard and as deputy chief of staff for former deputy prime minister Anthony Albanese. At the 2013 state redistribution, the seat of the

was abolished and was replaced with the seats of Newtown and Summer Hill. In November 2013 the sitting member for Marrickville, Carmel Tebbutt, announced she would not be recontesting at the 2015 state election. Haylen later won pre-selection for Summer Hill. She was elected to the seat in 2015 and spent five months as a member of the Select Committee on the Regulation of Brothels. Haylen was re-elected to the seat of Summer Hill in 2019 with a swing of +11.8 points and was appointed as Shadow Minister for Active Transport, the Cost of Living, Seniors and Volunteers in the

shadow Ministry of Jodi McKay The Shadow Ministry of Jodi McKay was the Labor opposition from July 2019 to May 2021, opposing the Berejiklian government in the Parliament of New South Wales. It was led by Jodi McKay following her election as leader of the party and NSW Lead ...

. Haylen was appointed as the Shadow Minister for

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in the

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in 2021. At the

2023 New South Wales state election The 2023 New South Wales state election will be held on 25 March 2023 to elect the 58th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council. The election will be ...

, Haylen retained her seat of Summer Hill and was subsequently announced as the

on 26 March.

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