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Jayson Richard Hinder (4 September 1965 – 30 April 2017)Birth Notices
''The Canberra Times'', 6 September 1965] was an Australian lawyer and politician. He was elected as a Australian Labor Party (Australian Capital Territory Branch), Labor Party member of the
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for
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, in a countback conducted on 3 March 2016 to fill a
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caused by the resignation of Mary Porter. He was defeated at the
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in October. Hinder was killed in a motorcycle accident in California in April 2017.


Early life

Hinder was born and raised in
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, the son of a draughtsman and an art teacher. When his father died of emphysema at the age of 43, Hinder was sent to boarding school in the Southern Highlands while his mother sold the family home and moved into Canberra Girls Grammar School as the school's boarding manager.


Legal career

After leaving school, Hinder worked as a motor mechanic and owned his own business. At the age of 30, he decided to become a lawyer, selling his business and studying law at
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. He was a partner in two Canberra law firms before starting his own practice, Jayson Hinder & Associates, in 2004.


Sport

Hinder was a member of the ACT Veterans Rugby Club. He received a "Player of the Day Jacket" in 2015 and was also a member of the winning Australian Parliament XV squad in the 2015 Parliamentary Rugby World Cup in England.


References

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