Justine Keay Australian Labor Party - Tasmania

Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Braddon, Tasmania, 2016.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Agriculture and Water Resources from 15.9.16; Public Works from 15.9.16.

Party positions

• Member, ALP, 2002- present.
• Delegate, ALP State Conference, 2008.
• Delegate, ALP National Conference, 2009.
• Member, ALP Administration Committee, 2009-12.
• Vice President, Leven Branch ALP, 2009-11; 2013.
• President, Leven Branch ALP, 2011-12; 2014-16.

Personal

• Born 18.3.1975, Devonport, Tas.
• De Facto.

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BA (U. Tas.)
• B. Environmental Impact Assessment (Murdoch).
• Post Grad. Dip. Environmental Management (Murdoch).
• Grad. Dip. Psych. (Monash).
• Assistant manager, Coles Supermarket, 1994-96.
• Traffic clerk, Souther Cross TV, 1996-99.
• Traffic clerk, WIN TV WA, 1999-2002.
• Administrative assistant, Hon. Bryan Green MHA, Minister for Environment, Water and Primary Industries (Tas.), 2002-04.
• Personal Assistant, Department for Constitutional Affairs (London, UK), 2005-06.
• Personal Assistant, Hon. Bryan Green MHA, Deputy Premier of Tasmania, 2004-05.
• Adviser, Hon. Lara Giddings MHA, Premier of Tasmania, 2013-14.
• Electorate Officer, 2007-13; 2014-16.

Electorate

Description: rural.
Location: north-west and west Tasmania; it includes the cities of Burnie and Devonport, and the towns of Currie, Latrobe, Penguin, Queenstown, Rosebery, Smithton, Somerset, Stanley, Strahan, Ulverstone, Waratah, Wynyard and Zeehan. It also includes King Island.
Area: 20 826 sq km.
Electors enrolled: 72 529 (at 2.7.16).
Industries: forestry, fishing, kelp harvesting, dairying, cheese, beef cattle production, vegetable growing and processing, poppies, pyrethrum, sawmills, paper mills, weaving mills, lead, zinc, iron ore, manufacturing, wind industry, telecommunications, ports, airports and tourism.
State electorates: Braddon is co-extensive with the Tasmanian House of Assembly electorate of the same name.