Carina Garland
MP
Garland at a 2022 election forum
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Chisholm
Assumed office
21 May 2022
Preceded byGladys Liu
Personal details
Political partyLabor

Carina Mary Lindsay Garland is an Australian politician. She has served as a Labor MP for Chisholm since the 2022 Australian federal election.

Early life and education

Garland was born in Traralgon, Victoria.[1] Her father was a general practitioner and ran a practice in Melbourne's south-east with her mother, a nurse. Her maternal grandfather immigrated to Australia from Italy in the 1950s.[2]

Garland grew up in Clayton.[3][4] She attended Sacré Cœur School in Glen Iris.[1] She later completed an English literature honours degree at Monash University and a PhD in gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney.[5][6]

Political career

Before her election to the Australian House of Representatives, Garland served as the assistant secretary for the Victorian Trades Hall Council, as well as a parliamentary staffer.[5][7][8] Garland was preselected to stand in Chisholm for Labor at the 2022 federal election in July 2021, and won the seat with an 8.1-point swing in her direction, defeating Liberal incumbent Gladys Liu.[5][7] In the Labor caucus, Garland is a member of the Labor Left faction.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "GARLAND, Dr Carina Mary Lindsay". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliamentary Library. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Lucas, Clay (24 May 2022). "Ground game under scrutiny: what it's like to cover a marginal seat campaign". The Age. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  3. ↑ Pappas, Penni (23 February 2022). "Garland's Greek mission to take the Melbourne seat of Chisolm from the Liberals". Neos Kosmos. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022. Growing up in the south-east and now living in Clayton...
  4. ↑ Kolovos, Benita (14 May 2022). "Ultra-marginal Chisholm hopes for a milder ride, but scrabble for votes still intense". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022. The daughter of a doctor and a nurse, Carland (sic) grew up in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne and studied at Monash University.
  5. 1 2 3 Tillett, Andrew (29 July 2021). "Labor picks senior union official for key marginal seat". Australian Financial Review. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  6. ↑ Baxendale, Rachel (19 May 2022). "Chisholm: Feminist text has ALP in Wonderland". The Australian. Archived from the original on 19 May 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022. ...she had recently completed an English Literature honours degree at Monash University and was about to commence a PhD at the University of Sydney.
  7. 1 2 "Labor takes prized Liberal seats of Chisholm, Higgins. Here are the Victorian seats to watch this 2022 federal election". ABC News. 21 May 2022. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  8. ↑ Garland, Carina (6 March 2021). "The Sexual Abuse Scandal Rocking Australia's Parliament Is the Tip of the Iceberg". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2022. I worked as a federal parliamentary staffer (not for the Coalition) both in government and in opposition.
  9. ↑ "The power behind the PM – who are Labor's powerbrokers in government?". The Age. 26 June 2022. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.


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