Kerry Joseph Bartlett (born 15 April 1949) is an Australian politician. He was a

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member of the

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between March 1996 and November 2007, representing the

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. He was born in

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, and was educated at the

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and

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, and has a master's degree in economics from the latter. Before entering politics, he was a school economics and history teacher at

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, a university economics tutor and a financial planner. Bartlett did not attain a ministry but was Chief Government

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from 2004 until 2007. His seat was radically altered ahead of the 2007 election. He'd previously held the seat with a fairly safe majority of eight percent, but a redistribution wiped out Bartlett's majority and turned Macquarie into a marginal Labor seat. He was defeated by former Labor state minister

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on a swing of six percent.

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