Emma Husar was born at Nepean Hospital in Kingswood, New South Wales, in the local government area of the City of Penrith.
20 Facts About Emma Husar
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Emma Husar attended Caroline Chisholm College and Southport TAFE prior to enrolment at Western Sydney University in a Bachelor of Primary Teaching degree.
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Emma Husar joined the Labor Party in 2013 and became president of the Penrith Branch in 2015.
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Emma Husar was unsuccessful as the ALP candidate for the seat of Penrith in the 2015 New South Wales state election, but won the seat of Lindsay by defeating the sitting Liberal MP Fiona Scott in the 2016 federal election with a swing of 4.1 percent.
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In July 2018, it was reported that Emma Husar had been the subject of an internal assessment commissioned by the NSW Labor Party since March regarding staff complaints of workplace bullying and misconduct.
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Emma Husar denied the allegations and took personal leave shortly afterwards, citing threats of violence directed towards her.
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The investigation upheld complaints that Emma Husar had behaved offensively and unreasonably towards her staff.
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Legal advice based on this assessment prompted the NSW Labor Party to report that there was no basis for Emma Husar to resign from parliament.
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Emma Husar had already been re-endorsed as the party's candidate at the 2019 election, but announced on 8 August 2018 she would not recontest her marginal seat.
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In November 2018, Emma Husar said she had changed her mind and disputed that she had ever ceased to be endorsed as the Labor candidate.
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Emma Husar sought intervention by Labor leader Bill Shorten, who stated that it was not in the best interests of the ALP or Emma Husar for her to recontest the seat.
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On 7 December 2018, NSW Labor formally disendorsed Emma Husar from recontesting the seat of Lindsay.
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Emma Husar subsequently stated that she would challenge the disendorsement.
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Apparently, Emma Husar did not nominate for the ALP preselection ballot.
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In early December 2018, Emma Husar announced that she had launched defamation proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against BuzzFeed, the originator of the investigation-story, and a journalist.
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Emma Husar claimed that the publication of unsubstantiated allegations without the right of reply had led to a media storm which ruined her career, thus causing economic loss.
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In March 2019, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Emma Husar had repaid $2,300 to the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority after an audit found that there had been twenty-one individual breaches of travel expenses in an eighteen-month period.
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Emma Husar explained that approximately ten per cent of the total was related to knee surgery and pneumonia in August 2016.
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Emma Husar reportedly moved to Western Australia after leaving politics.
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In November 2020, Emma Husar stated that she had not worked since she left parliament.