Julia Dorothy Finn is an Australian politician who is the member for Granville in the

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. Finn is a member of the Labor's NSW Left faction.

Career

Finn holds a masters degree in environmental science and worked previously for the

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Department of Energy, Utilities and Sustainability. Finn served on

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from 1999 to 2012. She became lord mayor in 2004 at the age of thirty-one. In this role, she committed the council to water conservation measures during the millenium drought and expanded the

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program at Parramatta, with the council becoming a sponsor. She was elected as the member for Granville 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 th ...

. Finn voted no to the Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019. Finn was appointed Shadow Minister for Consumer Protection and Shadow Minister for Carers in the McKay shadow cabinet in July 2019. In June 2020, Finn temporarily stepped down from her portfolios after she was named in an internal party investigation into branch stacking issues. McKay did not sack Finn and the latter officially remained a shadow minister. In 2021, she was appointed as Shadow Minister for Sport and Youth in the

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. She was not appointed to the

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but was appointed as a Parliamentary Secretary in 2023.

References

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