Daniel Frank Barron-Sullivan (born 9 June 1960 in

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, Sarawak) is an Australian former politician.

Political career

He was a Liberal member and later an independent member of the

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representing the electorate of Mitchell now known as the electorate of Leschenault from December 1996 to September 2008. From 2001 to 2005, Sullivan was the Western Australian Liberal deputy leader, under the leadership of briefly Richard Court and then

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. Sullivan quit the

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in 2008 after losing his seat in an electoral redistribution and expressed dissatisfaction with current Liberal party leader

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. On 20 June 2008, he created a new party by merging with the WA Family First party to create the WAFamilyFirst.com Party (the 'new' party continued to operate as the WA branch of Family First, Australia). In the 2008 election, Sullivan ran for the South-West Region seat in the

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but only managed to attract 3% of the vote, and consequently was unsuccessful in his attempt to get reelected.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sullivan, Dan 1960 births Living people Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly Independent members of the Parliament of Western Australia Family First Party politicians Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia People from Kuching Malaysian emigrants to Australia 21st-century Australian politicians People who lost Malaysian citizenship Naturalised citizens of Australia