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Tim James (Australian Politician)
Timothy Charles James is an Australian politician. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the 2022 Willoughby state by-election. In 2022, in his third preselection attempt to run for the Liberal Party, he was successful in becoming the candidate for the 2022 Willoughby state by-election, defeating popularly-elected local Mayor and member of the moderate faction Gail Giles-Gidney. He held the seat on 12 February 2022 despite a 19.2% swing to independent candidate Larissa Penn. Professional and political life Born and raised in the northern Sydney suburb of Artarmon, James joined the Liberal Party in 1993. From 1996, he worked in the offices of Joe Hockey and the then Prime Minister, John Howard in conjunction with completing his law and economic studies at the University of Technology Sydney. Admitted as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of NSW in 2002, James worked as a commercial lawyer for Allens Arthur Robinson and then as a legal adviser to Pfizer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is presided over by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The Assembly has 93 members, elected by single-member constituency, which are commonly known as seats. Voting is by the optional preferential system. Members of the Legislative Assembly have the post-nominals MP after their names. From the creation of the assembly up to about 1990, the post-nominals "MLA" (Member of the Legislative Assembly) were used. The Assembly is often called ''the bearpit'' on the basis of the house's reputation for confrontational style during heated moments and the "savage political theatre and the bloodlust of its professional players" attributed in part to executive dominance. History The Legislati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
