Anthony David Chisholm (born 24 February 1978) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the

Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also simply known as Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia, one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms t ...

(ALP) and has been a

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for

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since 2016. He was appointed an assistant minister in the Albanese government following the party's victory at the 2022 federal election. He previously served as the party's state secretary from 2008 to 2014.

Early life

Chisholm was born in

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. He is the youngest of five children born to Marion () and Neville Chisholm, who moved from Tasmania to Queensland shortly before he was born. He grew up in the city's northern suburbs and attended Wavell State High School. He later graduated from

Griffith University Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian ...

with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in politics and international relations.

Politics

Chisholm joined the ALP in 1995. He was the party's candidate in Warrego at the

2001 Queensland state election An election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 17 February 2001 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The result of the election was the return of the Labor Party (ALP) government of Premier Peter Beattie ...

, aged 22. He worked as an organiser from 2004 to 2007, initially with the national secretariat and then with the state branch. He then joined the staff of opposition leader

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as an advisor. Chisholm served as state secretary of the ALP in Queensland from 2008 to 2014. He directed the party's successful campaign at the 2015 state election. Immediately prior to his election to parliament he work for

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, "providing advice on maintaining mainstream political support amid an ongoing campaign against the coal seam gas (CSG) industry by environmental and landholder groups".

Parliament

Following the retirement of Senator

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, Chisholm won ALP

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for the 2016 federal election and was elected to the Senate. He has served on a number of committees, and in February 2020 was made chair of the Select Committee on Administration of Sports Grants. He was Deputy Chair on the "Inquiry into the destruction of 46,000 year old caves at the

Juukan Gorge Juukan Gorge is a gorge in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, about from Mt Tom Price. It was named by the daughter of Puutu Kunti Kurrama man Juukan, also known as Tommy Ashburton, who was born at Jukarinya (Mt B ...

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/ref> Chisholm is a member of the right faction of the Labor Party. In June 2022, Chisholm was appointed Assistant Minister for Education and Assistant Minister for Regional Development in the Albanese government.

References

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