Jackson Taylor
Jackson George Taylor (born 1991/1992)[1] is an Australian politician and former councillor. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2018, representing the electorate of Bayswater.
Jackson Taylor | |
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Taylor in 2022 | |
| Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Bayswater | |
| Assumed office 24 November 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Heidi Victoria |
| Deputy Mayor of Knox City Council | |
| In office 2018 – 6 December 2018 | |
| Member of the Knox City Council | |
| In office 6 December 2016 – 6 December 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Joe Cossari |
| Succeeded by | Marcia Timmers-Leitch |
| Constituency | Collier Ward |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1991/1992 (age 30–31)[1] |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Labor |
| Education | Dandenong Primary School Dandenong High School |
| Website | www |
Taylor worked as a police officer before entering politics, and served as deputy mayor of Knox City Council.[2]
Career
In 2016, Taylor was elected to Knox City Council in Collier Ward, with a margin of 5.85%.[3] In 2018, he became the deputy mayor of the council. For five years, Taylor was a serving member of Victoria Police, stationed at Glen Waverley and Lilydale, as well as spending time in the Family Violence Unit. When he was pre-selected by the Labor Party to run for state parliament, he was serving as a police prosecutor, with the rank of senior constable.
At the age of 26, Taylor won his seat at the 2018 state election, with a margin of just 0.4%.[2] He had been preselected by the Victorian Labor Party less than a month out from polling. Over the second term of the Andrews Labor Government, Taylor ran a successful campaign to fund a full rebuild of the CFA fire station at The Basin, and secured funding for projects in many schools in the electorate, including the Bayswater Education Plan, which encompassed several schools.
In his inaugural speech, Taylor detailed experiences in his childhood around witnessing family violence, substance abuse and his mother's mental health battles, as well as his time in out of home care. Taylor discussed how the power of education and support from teachers provided "direction" and "purpose" during his early life.[4]
Taylor is a member of the Integrity and Oversight Committee of the state parliament.[5]
He was re-elected at the 2022 Victorian state election, overcoming a boundary redistribution that made the seat of Bayswater notionally Liberal-held to defeat Nick Wakeling with a nearly five percent swing in his favour.[6]
Originally a member of Labor Right, Taylor defected to Labor Left along with six of his colleagues shortly after the 2022 Victorian state election; the defections of his colleagues and himself meant that Labor Left constituted a majority of the state Labor caucus.[7]
References
- ^ a b "Speech". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ^ a b Green, Antony (2018). "Bayswater". Victorian State Election 2018. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- ^ "2016 local council election results". www.vec.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Jackson Taylor". www.jacksontaylor.com.au. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Member Profile - Mr Jackson Taylor". www.parliament.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/vic/2022/guide/bays
- ^ Baxendale, Rachel. "Daniel Andrews blindsides his factional rivals". The Australian. News Corp. Retrieved 3 December 2022.