Jamie Parker (politician)


Jamie Thomas Parker is the member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Balmain for the Greens since 2011. Parker is the first Green to represent his party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Parker is a career politician, having entered local government politics shortly after university.

Political career

Parker has been active in social justice and environmental issues for many years and while at university was elected the NSW president and subsequently the national environment officer of the National Union of Students.
Parker stood for and was elected to Leichhardt Council in 1999 as a NSW Greens member. Parker was subsequently re-elected in 2004 and 2008. While on Council he has served as chair of the Environment Committee, as deputy mayor and, since 2008, as the mayor of Leichhardt. He retired from Council at the 2012 election.
Parker has served as the convenor of the NSW Greens.
Parker won the seat of Balmain from Labor's Verity Firth at the 2011 State election. He is the first member of the NSW Greens to sit in the Lower House of the New South Wales Parliament.