David Shoebridge

David Shoebridge
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 September 2010
Personal details
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Greens New South Wales
Residence	Woollahra, New South Wales
Website	http://davidshoebridge.org.au/

David Shoebridge is an Australian politician. He has been a Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since September 2010, when he was appointed to replace outgoing MLC Sylvia Hale.

Shoebridge's portfolio responsibilities within the Greens include: Forestry; Industrial Relations; Planning & Heritage; Firearms (including the Game Council NSW); Justice and Local Government.^[1]

Early career

After a brief stint as a cellarman and superintendent for the Royal Agricultural Society, Shoebridge started his career as an associate to Family Court justice Eric Baker.

Shoebridge then went on to become a lawyer and worked six years as a solicitor at Taylor and Scott, a union law firm, and more than seven years as a barrister at Denman Chambers, with a focus on employment, discrimination, industrial and tort law. While no longer practicing, he still keeps his ticket.

Political career

Shoebridge outside Parliament House in Sydney

Shoebridge was elected to Woollahra Municipal Council in 2004 and reelected in 2008.^[2] He served one term as Deputy Mayor.

He was the Greens candidate for the state seat of Vaucluse in the 2007 state election, coming in second place.^[3]

He was preselected to the first position on the Greens' upper house ticket for the 2011 state election despite not having served in parliament but, after Sylvia Hale resigned from the Legislative Council in September 2010, he was deemed eligible to take her position which allowed him to contest the election as a sitting MP.^[4]

On 2 June 2011, Shoebridge took the record for longest speech in the NSW Legislative Council while talking continuously for over five hours and 58 minutes. ^[5]

Shoebridge is currently campaigning to curb the use of police drug sniffer dogs and stun guns.^[6][7]

References

1. ^ Greens NSW MPs portfolio responsibilities, as of May 2011
2. ^ "Cooper Ward". New South Wales Electoral Commission. 2008. http://www.pastvtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/LGE2008/result.Woollahra.councila2d5.html?wardid=X080914902W01. Retrieved 7 September 2010. 
3. ^ "Election Results: Vaucluse". ABC Elections. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2 April 2007. http://www.abc.net.au/elections/nsw/2007/results/vauc.htm. Retrieved 7 September 2010. 
4. ^ "NSW Greens upper house MP Sylvia Hale quits parliament early". The Australian. 31 August 2010. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/nsw-greens-upper-house-mp-sylvia-hale-quits-parliament-early/story-fn59niix-1225912364819. Retrieved 7 September 2010. 
5. ^ http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/time-freezes-as-recordbreaking-mp-speaks-for-nearly-six-hours-20110603-1fjgn.html
6. ^ http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/barely-a-sniff-of-trouble-so-greens-say-its-time-to-call-off-the-dogs-20110708-1h6sv.html
7. ^ http://davidshoebridge.org.au/2011/06/28/taser-use-on-the-rise/

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