Khaldoun Asfour is an Australian politician currently serving as the Mayor of the

City of Canterbury-Bankstown The City of Canterbury Bankstown (also known as Canterbury-Bankstown Council) is a local government, local government area located in the South Western Sydney, South Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The council was formed on ...

, the largest

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by population, and fourth most-populous local government in

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. He previously served as a councillor for the

City of Bankstown The City of Bankstown was a local government area in the south-west region of Sydney, Australia, centred on the suburb of Bankstown, from 1895 to 2016. The last Mayor of the City of Bankstown Council was Clr Khal Asfour, a member of the Labor ...

from 2004 to 2016, serving as its mayor from 2011 to 2014 and again from 2015 to 2016.

Career

Asfour is a member of the

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, and publicly announced his intention to nominate as the party's endorsed candidate for the New South Wales state seat of Lakemba for 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 ...

. He was not successful, with the party choosing eventual MP

Jihad Dib Jihad Dib (born 1973) is an Australian politician who was elected at the 2015 New South Wales state election to the Legislative Assembly as the member for Lakemba representing the Labor Party. He was the only Muslim MP to represent the Lakemb ...

without a local pre-selection contest taking place. In 2018, Asfour announced that the City of Canterbury-Bankstown would establish a pilot program to provide free childcare to all local asylum seeker families in its council-run centres, the first program of its kind in Australia.

References

Living people Mayors of Bankstown Deputy mayors of places in Australia Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-mayor-stub