Dawn Walker

Dawn Elizabeth Walker is an Australian politician. She was appointed as a Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Council on 22 February 2017.Walker was born and schooled in Melbourne, graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours, and from the University of Melbourne with a diploma in adult education and training. She then worked for 15 years as a policy adviser for Small Business Victoria, a state government agency. In 2005, she moved with her partner and three children to Tweed Heads on the Far North Coast of New South Wales.Walker ran as the Greens candidate for the Division of Richmond at the 2013 and 2016 federal elections.On 22 February 2017, Walker was elected by a joint sitting of the New South Wales Parliament to fill a casual vacancy resulting from the resignation of Jan Barham. Her preselection was controversial, with the returning officer of the ballot identifying areas of concern about the integrity of the process, and claims that Walker had broken party rules by using its email lists for campaigning purposes. A subsequent meeting of the Greens State Delegates Council ratified the preselection.

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