Geoffrey Stewart (Geoff) Irwin (born 30 March 1948) is an Australian politician. He was a
Labor
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member of the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...
from 1984 to 1995.
Irwin was first elected to state parliament at the
1984 state election as the Labor member for the safe seat of
Merrylands
Merrylands is a suburb in Western Sydney, Australia. Merrylands is located 25 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is in the local government area of the Cumberland City Council.
History
Merrylands was named after the for ...
. His district was abolished at the
1988 state election, at which point he transferred to the similarly safe seat of
Fairfield. Re-elected again at
1991 state election, Irwin retired at the
1995 state election.
Irwin was born in the western Sydney suburb of
Guildford
Guildford ()
is a town in west Surrey, around southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildf ...
. He is married to former federal Labor MP
Julia Irwin
Julia Claire Irwin (; born 8 November 1951) is a former Australian politician. She represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2010, holding the New South Wales seat of Fowler.
Early life
Irwin was ...
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References
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1948 births
Living people
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales