Stephen Lawrence (politician)
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Stephen Lawrence | |
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Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council | |
Assumed office 25 March 2023 | |
Mayor of Dubbo | |
In office 3 June 2021 – 23 December 2021 | |
Preceded by | Ben Shields |
Succeeded by | Mathew Dickerson |
Deputy Mayor of Dubbo | |
In office 2019–2021 | |
Succeeded by | Anne Jones |
Councillor of the Dubbo Regional Council for Dubbo East ward | |
In office 2017–2021 | |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1975 |
Political party | Labor |
Residence | Dubbo |
Alma mater | Australian National University[1] |
Occupation | Barrister |
Stephen Lawrence is an Australian barrister and politician who is currently serving a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He previously served as the Mayor of the Dubbo Regional Council. He also co-hosts Australian legal podcast ‘The Wigs’, with Jim Minns, Emmanuel Kerkysharian and Felicity Graham.
Early life
Lawrence was born in Griffith, New South Wales in 1975 to a family of five children. He was educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Laws and Masters of Laws from the Australian National University.
Career
Legal
Lawrence has been a lawyer since 2001 specialising in criminal and administrative law. He was a specialist family violence and sexual assault prosecutor in Canberra, Australia. He has specialised in transitional justice, having been a public defender in the Solomon Islands as part of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands and an Australia Government Justice Advisor in Afghanistan as part of Australia’s involvement in the international intervention there. He has also been involved in criminal defence work in Nauru and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Lawrence moved to Dubbo in 2010 to work at the Aboriginal Legal Service. Lawrence worked as a barrister from 2015 until he was elected to parliament in 2023.[2]
Politics
Lawrence first joined the Labor Party at the age of eighteen and is a member of the United Services Union.[2]
He was endorsed as the Labor candidate for the state seat of Dubbo at the 2015 election[3][4] and again at the 2019 election.[5][6]
He was elected to Dubbo Regional Council in 2017, the first endorsed Labor candidate to be elected to local government in Dubbo. He was elected as Deputy Mayor in 2019 and Mayor in 2021.
In 2019 he was elected as the Vice President (Rural and Regional) of Local Government NSW, a peak body for local government in NSW.
He retired from local government at the December 2021 election and was later endorsed as a Labor candidate for the Legislative Council at the 2023 state election.[7]
References
- ^ "Resume" (PDF). Stephen Lawrence. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
- ^ a b "About". Stephen Lawrence. Stephen Lawrence. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
- ^ State Electoral District of Dubbo: First Preference Votes, NSWEC.
- ^ State Electoral District of Dubbo: Distribution of Preferences, NSWEC.
- ^ "Dubbo: First Preference Votes". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
- ^ "Dubbo: Distribution of Preferences". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
- ^ Smith, Alexandra (20 September 2022). "NSW Labor frontbencher delivers extraordinary attack on one of her own". The Sydney Morning Herald. Nine Entertainment. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
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