Trish Doyle
Trish Doyle MP | |
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Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Blue Mountains | |
Assumed office 28 March 2015 | |
Preceded by | Roza Sage |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Australian |
Political party | Labor Party |
Children | 2 |
Residence | Lawson |
Alma mater | Macquarie University |
Occupation | Teacher |
Website | www |
Trisha Lee Doyle is an Australian politician who was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Blue Mountains for the Labor Party at the 2015 New South Wales state election.[1]
Career[]
Doyle is a school teacher, and worked on the staff of Blue Mountains MP Phil Koperberg between 2007 and 2011. Doyle ran unsuccessfully as the Labor candidate in 2011 when the then incumbent Keneally Labor Government was swept from power. She was later preselected again ahead of the 2015 New South Wales state election as the Labor candidate. The boundaries of the Blue Mountains electorate were redistributed before the election, increasing the margin for the Liberal Party from 4.7 to 5.4 points.
At the 2015 election Doyle topped the first preference vote with 41.2%. There was a swing of 18.7 points toward her on first preferences. In the two party preferred distribution, she beat sitting MP Roza Sage with 58.1% of the TPP vote, an increase of 13.5% from the previous election. This was the first time in its history that the seat of Blue Mountains was not won by an MP from the party that would form Government after that election, breaking the bellwether status of the electorate.[2]
Doyle was sworn into the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on 5 May 2015 by the Governor of New South Wales and made her inaugural speech to the Legislative Assembly on 13 May 2015.[3][4]
In November 2018, responding to allegations that the then NSW Labor leader, Luke Foley, had — in 2016 — groped an ABC journalist, Doyle called on Mr Foley to resign his leadership[5] by the end of the day and threatened to put a spill motion to the Labor caucus if he refused.[6] He resigned an hour later.[7]
At the New South Wales state election in March 2019, Doyle was re-elected to her second four-year term with a two-party swing toward her of 6.7 points, giving her a final two-party result of 64.9%.[8] This is the highest result achieved by a candidate in the Blue Mountains electorate since its establishment in 1968, besting the previous record holder, Labor's Bob Debus, who received 64.8% of the vote in 2003.
In the July 2019 leadership contest, Doyle supported Jodi McKay against Chris Minns to lead NSW Labor. Doyle was promoted to the Shadow Ministry in July 2019[9] by McKay, being given responsibility for Emergency Services, Women and the Prevention of Domestic Violence. Doyle was not selected by Minns to continue in the Shadow Cabinet when the latter became NSW Labor leader in June 2021,[10] and returned to the backbench.
Personal life[]
Doyle grew up in Canberra. Her father was violent when she was young. At age 8, she was woken by her father at the end of her bed with a rifle. With her younger brother and sister, she grew up in a community house while her mother healed from the trauma of the incident.[11] Doyle, from age 13, grew up near Wagga Wagga in the NSW Riverina before attending Macquarie University for a teaching degree. Her first husband suffered from depression and psychotic episodes. She has two sons, Patrick and Tom, who live with her in Lawson, New South Wales.[3] She is good friends with former Blue Mountains MP Bob Debus and Federal MP Tanya Plibersek.
Electoral History[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Roza Sage | 17,681 | 39.1 | +10.6 | |
Labor | Trish Doyle | 10,253 | 22.7 | -18.1 | |
Independent | Janet Mays | 7,804 | 17.3 | +17.3 | |
Greens | Kerrin O'Grady | 7,647 | 16.9 | +0.7 | |
Christian Democrats | Merv Cox | 1,841 | 4.1 | +4.1 | |
Total formal votes | 45,226 | 97.5 | -0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 1,141 | 2.5 | +0.4 | ||
Turnout | 46,367 | 94.0 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Roza Sage | 20,736 | 54.7 | +15.8 | |
Labor | Trish Doyle | 17,144 | 45.3 | -15.8 | |
Liberal gain from Labor | Swing | +15.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Trish Doyle | 19,995 | 41.2 | +18.7 | |
Liberal | Roza Sage | 17,241 | 35.5 | −4.1 | |
Greens | Alandra Tasire | 7,888 | 16.2 | −0.7 | |
Christian Democrats | Tony Piper | 1,507 | 3.1 | −1.1 | |
Independent | Mark Harrison | 1,470 | 3.0 | +3.0 | |
No Land Tax | Gianna Maiorana | 450 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
Total formal votes | 48,551 | 97.5 | +0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 1,252 | 2.5 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 49,803 | 93.3 | +0.7 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Trish Doyle | 25,866 | 58.1 | +13.5 | |
Liberal | Roza Sage | 18,616 | 41.9 | −13.5 | |
Labor gain from Liberal | Swing | +13.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Trish Doyle | 23,022 | 46.77 | +5.58 | |
Liberal | Owen Laffin | 13,982 | 28.40 | −7.11 | |
Greens | Kingsley Liu | 5,993 | 12.17 | −4.07 | |
Animal Justice | Gregory Keightley | 2,008 | 4.08 | +4.08 | |
Christian Democrats | Cameron Phillips | 1,786 | 3.63 | +0.52 | |
Sustainable Australia | Richard Marschall | 1,496 | 3.04 | +3.04 | |
Keep Sydney Open | Mark Pigott | 941 | 1.91 | +1.91 | |
Total formal votes | 49,228 | 97.52 | +0.04 | ||
Informal votes | 1,250 | 2.48 | −0.04 | ||
Turnout | 50,478 | 91.97 | −1.33 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Trish Doyle | 28,834 | 64.86 | +6.71 | |
Liberal | Owen Laffin | 15,620 | 35.14 | −6.71 | |
Labor hold | Swing | +6.71 |
References[]
- ^ "Ms (Trish) Trisha Lee Doyle, BA, DipEd MP". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ^ "Blue Mountains NSW Elections 2015". ABC News. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ^ a b Gerathy, Sarah (13 May 2015). "NSW Labor MP Trish Doyle tells own story of domestic violence in maiden speech". ABC News. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ^ Trish Doyle (13 May 2015). "Inaugural speech" (PDF). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). NSW: Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ^ "ABC journalist releases explosive statement about Luke Foley". 8 November 2018.
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/trishdoylebluemtns/posts/2103860209676420
- ^ "NSW Labor leader Luke Foley resigns but denies explosive harassment allegations". 8 November 2018.
- ^ "Blue Mountains - NSW Electorate, Candidates, Results".
- ^ Curtin, Jennie (3 July 2019). "Trish Doyle promoted to shadow cabinet". Blue Mountains Gazette. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- ^ Cormack, Lucy (11 June 2021). "Real Generational Change: Chris Minns Reveals New Labor Frontbench". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Trish Doyle shares family domestic violence past in moving maiden speech". Blue Mountains Gazette. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ^ Antony Green. "2011 New South Wales Election: Analysis of Results" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ State Electoral District of Blue Mountains: First Preference Votes, NSWEC.
- ^ State Electoral District of Blue Mountains: Distribution of Preferences, NSWEC.
- ^ "Blue Mountains: First Preference Votes". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
- ^ "Blue Mountains: Distribution of Preferences". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
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