Alison Patricia Megarrity (9 February 1961 – 15 November 2022) was an Australian politician, who served as a 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 House ...

representing Menai for the Labor Party between 1999 and

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. Megarrity's father was a railwayman and she grew up in central western

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. She was educated at Our Lady of Mercy College,

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and was awarded a

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. She married Robert Megarrity in 1982 and they have two sons. She was a councillor of the City of Liverpool Council between 1994 and 1999. On 24 September 2010, Megarrity announced her decision to not seek re-election at the 2011 State election, citing personal reasons. In 2013, Megarrity won Labor pre-selection in the Division of Hughes for the 2013 federal election, but was defeated by the sitting member

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. Megarrity died on 15 November 2022, at the age of 61.

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