Ms Janelle Saffin MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• State: elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council 25.3.1995 to 28.2.2003.
• Federal: elected to the House of Representatives for Page, New South Wales, 2007 and 2010.

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Parliamentary positions

• Member, Speaker's Panel from 18.2.08.

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: House from 19.2.08 to 19.7.10; Petitions from 25.10.10; Selection from 30.9.10 to 14.5.13; Appropriations and Administration from 13.2.13; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from 14.5.13.
• Joint Statutory: Public Works from 25.10.10 (Chair from 28.10.10).
• Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 18.2.08 (Chair, Trade Sub-Committee from 12.3.08).
• Joint Select: Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples from 29.11.12.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Timor-Leste, August 2009.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Japan, January 2012.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Timor-Leste, March 2012.

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Parliamentary party positions

• Government Whip from 27.11.12 to 13.5.13.

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Party positions

• Member, ALP from 1982.
• Secretary and President, ALP Lismore Branch.
• Secretary and President, ALP Lismore State Electorate Council.
• Secretary and President, ALP Richmond Federal Electorate Council.
• Delegate, ALP State and Federal Electorate Councils.
• Delegate, ALP Country, State and National Conferences.
• Vice-President, NSW Parliamentary Country Labor.
• Member, Country Labor Advocacy Committee.

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Personal

• Born 1.11.1954, Ipswich, Queensland.
• Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BLegS (Macq), DipT (Northern Rivers CAE).
• Community consultant and advocate 1990-95.
• Solicitor 1993-94.
• Member, NSW Legislative Council (see Parliamentary service above) 1995-2003.
• Senior Political Adviser to HE Dr Jose Ramos-Horta 2004-07.

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Electorate

• Description: rural.
  Location: New South Wales north coast; it includes the centres of Alstonville, Ballina, Casino, Evans Head, Grafton, Iluka, Kyogle, Lismore and Yamba.
  
  Area: 16 143 sq km (approx.).
  
  Electors enrolled: 94 360 (at 21.8.10).
  
  
  Industries: dairy and beef cattle, pigs, maize, tropical fruit, sugar cane, fishing, prawning, oysters, butter and dairy factories, timber mills, several abattoirs and tourism.
  State electorates: Page includes parts of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorates of Ballina, Clarence and Lismore.
  

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