Yasmin Maree Catley is an Australian politician who was elected to the

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as the member for

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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 ...

. Formerly a librarian with the

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, she has worked in the offices of Federal Labor MPs Greg Combet and

Anthony Albanese Anthony Norman Albanese ( or ; born 2 March 1963) is an Australian politician serving as the 31st and current prime minister of Australia since 2022. He has been leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2019 and the member of parlia ...

. She is married to Robert Coombs who himself served as the member for Swansea from 2007 to 2011. Yasmin was appointed to the Shadow Ministry by

NSW Labor The New South Wales Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) and commonly referred to simply as NSW Labor, is the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. The parliamentary leader is elect ...

Leader Luke Foley as the Shadow Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation in March 2015. From June 2019 to May 2021, Catley was Deputy Leader of the ALP and hence Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Catley resigned as deputy leader on 28 May 2021 along with leader Jodi McKay.

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