1. Susan Raye Templeman was born on 30 July 1963 and is an Australian politician.
36 Facts About Susan Templeman
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Susan Templeman is the member for Macquarie in the Australian House of Representatives and is Australia's Special Envoy for the Arts.
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Susan Templeman is a member of the Australian Labor Party and defeated the Liberal Louise Markus at the 2016 federal election.
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At the 2016 election, Susan Templeman defeated Louise Markus, winning the Division of Macquarie with a 6.7-point two-party preferred swing towards her.
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On primary votes, Susan Templeman saw a 4.5-point swing towards her.
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Susan Templeman was re-elected in 2019 despite a 2.0-point two-party preferred swing against the Australian Labor Party in Macquarie.
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Susan Templeman was born in Sydney, and is the daughter of an accountant father and public school music teacher mother.
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The family owned newsagencies in West Lindfield and Strathfield, with Susan Templeman regularly working the morning paper run with her father.
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Susan Templeman attended Killara High School and Strathfield Girls High School.
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Susan Templeman spent an additional six months of her secondary education at Colegio Mochis in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico as part of a year as a Rotary exchange student.
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Susan Templeman graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in communications.
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Susan Templeman began her career in January 1985, during the second Hawke term, as a journalist in the Canberra Press Gallery, at Old Parliament House.
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Susan Templeman then became the News Editor for LBC, before moving back to Australia to work as the Media Relations officer for Telecom.
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In 1991, Susan Templeman became a media trainer, establishing Media Skills.
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Susan Templeman has been described as "one of Australia's most successful media trainers".
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Susan Templeman joined the Labor Party during John Howard's term in office.
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Susan Templeman sought to be preselected as Labor's candidate for Macquarie at the 2010 federal election, and was the preferred candidate of the outgoing member, and former minister, Bob Debus.
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Searle was backed by the members of the soft left, members of the Labor Right faction and factional powerbroker Mark Arbib, but Susan Templeman ultimately prevailed in the rank-and-file preselection, gaining 84 votes against the only other nominee, former policewoman Donna Ritchie.
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Susan Templeman, who was touted as a "Western Sydney soccer mum", lost, with Labor suffering a 1.54-point two-party preferred swing, delivering the seat to former Member for Greenway and Liberal candidate for Macquarie, Louise Markus.
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Susan Templeman was pre-selected again in 2013, suffering a 3.32-point swing against her.
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Susan Templeman was pre-selected for a third time in 2016.
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At the 2016 election, Susan Templeman defeated the incumbent Louise Markus, winning the Division of Macquarie with a 6.7-point two-party preferred swing towards her.
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On primary votes, Susan Templeman saw a 4.5-point swing towards her, as well as the largest swing at an ordinary polling booth on Election Day in the country, where she recorded a 31.55-point swing in Kurrajong East.
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Susan Templeman is a member of the Joint Standing Committee on the Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings, and the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts.
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Susan Templeman announced that she would seek preselection to recontest the seat of Macquarie in 2019 Australian federal election.
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In 2019, Susan Templeman defeated Liberal candidate and Hawkesbury City Councillor Sarah Richards, with the vote so close that counting continued for 16 days before a result was announced.
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Susan Templeman was returned to the seat with a margin of 0.38 points, or 371 votes making it the most marginal Federal seat in Australia.
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Susan Templeman is a supporter of marriage equality and LGBTIQ+ rights, and is an avid supporter of the Australian Republican Movement, citing the push for Australia to become a republic as one of the driving forces for her membership of the Australian Labor Party.
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Susan Templeman is a member of EMILY's List Australia, an organisation dedicated to the election of Labor women.
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Susan Templeman has expressed similar opposition, contrary to party policy, to the Australian live export industry following the release of footage showing 2,400 live export sheep dying during the journey.
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Susan Templeman was the subject of media criticism for opposing the planned Western Sydney Airport.
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Susan Templeman was forcibly and controversially removed from the protest by police, and was issued with two infringement notices for failing to move on from the protest site.
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Susan Templeman has been an advocate for the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, and has described Israeli settlements in the Palestinian Territories as imprisoning Palestinians.
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Susan Templeman was a critic of Australia's decision to vote against an independent inquiry into Israel's response to the 2018 Gaza border protests, and joined with other parliamentarians in signing a statement against Israel's treatment of Palestinian children in the military detention system.
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Susan Templeman has been an ongoing critic of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its successor, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Susan Templeman said that she would push for side letters with parties to the TPP-11 to be sought to remove the ISDS provisions.