Mr Mike Symon MP – Parliament of Australia

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Member for Deakin, Victoria

Party: Australian Labor Party
Chamber: House of Representatives

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Contact details

Parliament Office

PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Telephone:: (02) 6277 4255
Fax:: (02) 6277 8451

Electorate Office

(Principal Office)

Unit 5, 602 Whitehorse Road
Mitcham, VIC, 3132

Postal address
PO Box 232
Mitcham, VIC, 3132

Telephone:: (03) 9874 4544
Fax:: (03) 9874 4644

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Websites: Personal website; Party website

Alternative URL

www.aph.gov.au/M_Symon_MP

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Electorate details

Deakin, Victoria

Biography

Party positions
Personal
Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament
Electorate

Parliamentary service

Elected to the House of Representatives for Deakin, Victoria, 2007 and 2010.

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Parliamentary positions

Member, Speaker's Panel from 7.2.12.

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Committee service

House of Representatives Standing: Employment and Workplace Relations from 11.3.08 to 19.7.10; Industry, Science and Innovation from 11.3.08 to 19.7.10; Education and Training from 17.6.09 to 19.7.10; Education and Employment from 25.10.10; Infrastructure and Communications from 25.10.10; Petitions from 25.10.10; Privileges and Members' Interests from 25.10.10; Social Policy and Legal Affairs from 7.2.12 to 14.8.12.
Joint Standing: National Broadband Network from 22.3.11; Treaties from 6.2.13.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Singapore, January 2010.
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Cambodia, September 2011.

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Party positions

Delegate, ALP State Conference from 1998.
Member, ALP Public Office Selection Committee from 2003.
Member, ALP Industrial Affairs Policy Committee from 2003; Secretary 2005-06.
President, ALP Ringwood Branch 2005; Secretary from 2006.

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Personal

Born 21.2.1965, Box Hill, Vic.
Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

Diploma of Occupational Health and Safety (CFMEU Training Unit, Melbourne).
Licensed electrician (Box Hill TAFE).
Union official.
Campaign officer.

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Electorate

Description: outer metropolitan.
Location: eastern Melbourne; it includes the suburbs of Bayswater North, Blackburn, Blackburn North, Blackburn South, Burwood East, Croydon, Croydon South, Forest Hill, Heathmont, Mitcham, Nunawading, Ringwood, Ringwood East, Ringwood North and Vermont.
Area: 61 sq km (approx.).
Electors enrolled: 87 744 (at 21.8.10).
Industries: light manufacturing, commercial and retail industries.
State electorates: Deakin includes parts of the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorates of Bayswater, Forest Hill, Kilsyth, Mitcham and Warrandyte.

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