Sally Sitou

Sally Sitou (Chinese: 陳莎莉) is an Australian politician who is the Labor member for the Division of Reid as of the 2022 Australian federal election. She defeated the incumbent Liberal member, Fiona Martin.[2]

Sally Sitou
MP
陳莎莉
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Reid
Assumed office
21 May 2022
Preceded byFiona Martin
Personal details
Born (1982-09-24) 24 September 1982
Canley Vale, New South Wales[1]
NationalityAustralian
Political partyLabor Party
Websitehttps://sallysitou.com/

Early years and background

Sally was born in Canley Vale, the second child of Chinese parents who fled Laos after the Vietnam War.[3] She went to Canley Vale Public School and Sefton High School and completed a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology – Honours) at Macquarie University.[4] She spent more than a decade working in the international education and international development sectors, and was most recently employed at the University of Sydney.[5]

She is married with one child.[6]

Politics

Sally has been a member of the Australian Labor Party since 2006, working on a number of campaigns, including the 2007 Bennelong campaign when Maxine McKew defeated former Prime Minister John Howard.[7] She worked as an adviser to Jason Clare MP, Member for Blaxland.[8] In 2021 Sally was pre-selected as the ALP’s candidate for the Division of Reid[9] and achieved a swing of 8.4 percent to win the seat in the May 2022 federal election.[10]

References
  1. "Ms Sally Sitou MP". Senators and Members of the Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  2. Pueblos, Monique (22 May 2022). "'A surreal moment': Sally Sitou celebrates diversity in parliament as she claims victory in Reid". SBS News. Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  3. "Sally Sitou, Candidate for Reid". Archived from the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  4. Sitou, Sally. "I am the daughter of migrants". Twitter. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  5. "Sally Sitou – Labor for Reid". www.alp.org.au. Archived from the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  6. "Meet Sally". sallysitou.com. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  7. McKew, Maxine. "Some Labor wins are extra special". Twitter. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  8. "Labor candidate calls out racist messages telling her not to contest election". SBS News. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  9. MP, Anthony Albanese. "Labor Announces Candidate for Reid". anthonyalbanese.com.au. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  10. "Reid (Key Seat) - Federal Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.

 


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