1. Timothy Ayres was born on 18 December 1973 and is an Australian politician and trade unionist who was elected as a Senator for New South Wales at the 2019 federal election.
10 Facts About Tim Ayres
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Tim Ayres is a member of the Australian Labor Party and was previously a trade union official with the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union.
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Tim Ayres was raised on a farm near Lismore, New South Wales.
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Tim Ayres completed his schooling at Glen Innes High School, before going on to study industrial relations at the University of Sydney.
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Tim Ayres was elected state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union in 2010.
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In July 2017, Tim Ayres won preselection for the ALP Senate ticket in New South Wales, replacing retiring senator Doug Cameron.
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Tim Ayres defeated former federal MP Chris Haviland by a substantial margin in a ballot of Labor Left factional delegates.
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Tim Ayres was elected to the Senate at the 2019 federal election, running in second place on the ALP ticket in New South Wales.
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Tim Ayres made his first speech to parliament on 30 July 2019, in which he offered that "a cruel pea-heart beats inside the chest of this mean-spirited government".
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In 2022, following the ALP's victory at the 2022 federal election, Tim Ayres was appointed assistant trade minister in the Albanese government.