Tim Ayres

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Senator
Tim Ayres
Senator for New South Wales
Assumed office
1 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1973-12-18) 18 December 1973 (age 48)
Sydney, New South Wales
Political partyLabor
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
OccupationTrade unionist

Timothy Ayres (born 18 December 1973)[1] is an Australian politician and trade unionist who was elected as a Senator for New South Wales at the 2019 federal election. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party and was previously a trade union official with the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU).

Early life[]

Ayres was raised on a farm near Lismore, New South Wales. He completed his schooling at Glen Innes High School, before going on to study industrial relations at the University of Sydney.[2]

Career[]

Ayres worked as a union organiser in the Riverina until 2000, when he moved to Sydney. He was elected state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) in 2010.[2]

In July 2017, Ayres won preselection for the ALP Senate ticket in New South Wales, replacing retiring senator Doug Cameron. He defeated former federal MP Chris Haviland by a substantial margin in a ballot of Labor Left factional delegates. According to The Australian, the vote was "highly controversial and acrimonious", and was boycotted by two major left-wing unions, the Maritime Union of Australia and the CFMEU.[3]

Ayres was elected to the Senate at the 2019 federal election, running in second place on the ALP ticket in New South Wales.[4][5] He 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".[6]

In April 2020, Ayres wrote an op-ed for the Northern Daily Leader which outlined ways for Australia to rectify the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Senator Tim Ayres". Senators and Members of the Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Tim Ayres". Australian Labor Party. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  3. ^ Bramston, Troy (25 July 2017). "Ayres' early claim for Senate splits Labor left". The Australian. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Senate Results". ABC News. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Qualification checklist" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  6. ^ Coughlan, Matt (30 July 2019). "Labor senator urges better ties to country". Canberra Times.
  7. ^ Ayres, Tim (17 April 2020). "After COVID-19, reconstructing rural and regional Australia". Northern Daily Leader.

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