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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Carina Mary Lindsay Garland is an Australian politician. She has served as a Labor MP for Chisholm since the 2022 Australian federal election.

Early life and education

Garland was born in Traralgon, Victoria.[1] Her father was a general practitioner and ran a practice in Melbourne's south-east with her mother, a nurse. Her maternal grandparents immigrated to Australia from Italy in the 1950s.[2] Her grandfather was a maths teacher at Emmaus College in Burwood.[3]

Garland grew up in Clayton.[4][5] She attended Sacré Cœur School in Glen Iris, where she was a School Prefect.[1] She later enrolled in an Arts/Law degree at Monash University, being awarded first class honours in English Literature. She received a scholarship to complete a PhD in the humanities at the University of Sydney.[6]

Career

Garland worked as an academic at the University of Sydney.[7]Шаблон:When After completing her PhD in the humanities, Garland worked as a parliamentary staffer for Simon Crean.[8] "Simon was the first person I voted for in any election and my first boss in politics," she said in 2023.[8] She described him as a "generous boss" who gave her support and advice during her election campaign in 2022.[8]

From 2016 to 2018, Garland was Senior Vice-President of the Australian Labor Party (Vic).[7]

Garland served as the Assistant Secretary for the Victorian Trades Hall Council from 2018 - 2021.[1] Her responsibilities included the Young Workers Centre and the Migrant Workers Centre. In 2019 she was a witness in the Victorian Government's Legislative Assembly Economy and Infrastructure Committee Inquiry into sustainable employment for disadvantaged jobseekers, where she advocated for marginalised and migrant workers.[9]

Political career

Garland was preselected to stand in Chisholm for Labor at the 2022 federal election in July 2021, and won the seat with an 8.1-point swing in her direction, defeating Liberal incumbent Gladys Liu.[6][10] During the 2022 election campaign, Garland and her supported knocked on 60,000 doors in Chisholm, phoned 72,000 people and had more than 25,000 conversations with voters in the electorate.[11] Garland was endorsed by Kevin Rudd.[12] Anthony Albanese described her as "a local champion who understands Chisholm and its needs".[13]

In the Labor caucus, Garland is a member of the Labor Left faction.[14]

Former Chisholm MP, Anna Burke, is a friend and mentor to Garland, and Garland has said that Burke showed her "what it means to be a really hard-working, active local member of parliament."[11]

In Parliament, Garland advocates for education, healthcare, climate change, workers rights, small business, local manufacturing and multiculturalism.[3] In April 2023 she signed a letter calling for a substantial increase to JobSeeker.[15] She is an advocate for life long learning and building a thriving higher education system in Australia.[16]

Garland's electorate office is in Mount Waverley.[17]

Personal life

Garland lives in Clayton.[4]

Garland is a descendant of Mary and Edith Garland, who signed the 1891 petition to grant Victorian women the right to vote.[3]

Garland has Italian heritage,[18] and her family credits the Federal Labor Government for transforming their lives.[4]

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