Biography for CHEESEMAN, Darren LeicesterMember for Corangamite (Vic)
Australian Labor Party
Parliamentary Service
Elected to the House of Representatives for Corangamite, Victoria, 2007. Re-elected 2010. Defeated at general elections 2013.
Parliamentary Positions
Member of the Speaker's Panel from 29.11.2012 to 5.8.2013.
Committee Service
Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit from 25.10.2010 to 5.8.2013; Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity from 6.2.2013 to 5.8.2013.
Joint Select: Australia's Clean Energy Future Legislation from 14.9.2011 to 7.10.2011.
House of Representatives Standing: Industry, Science and Innovation from 19.2.2008 to 19.7.2010; Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government from 19.2.2008 to 19.7.2010; Agriculture, Resources, Fisheries and Forestry from 25.10.2010 to 5.8.2013; Privileges and Members' Interests from 25.10.2010 to 21.8.2012; Climate Change, Environment and the Arts from 13.2.2013 to 5.8.2013.
Party Positions
President of the Australian Labor Party Ballarat West Branch, 1998.
Personal
Born 8.6.1976, Christchurch, New Zealand
Married
Qualifications and Occupations before entering Federal Parliament
Union organiser from 2001 to 2007.
Local Government Service
Councillor, City of Ballarat from 1999 to 2002.
Electorate
Name: Corangamite
Location: south-western Victoria; it includes the outer southern Geelong suburbs of Belmont, Grovedale and Highton, and the towns of Anglesea, Apollo Bay, Barwon Heads, Colac, Inverleigh, Linton, Lorne, Ocean Grove, Portarlington, Torquay and Winchelsea.
Area: 7,724 Sq km
Electors enrolled: 101,569 (at 21.8.2010)
Industries: beef and dairy cattle, crops, fishing, forestry, horticultural and organic farming, sheep, food processing, manufacturing, retail and tourism.
Includes: Corangamite includes the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate of South Barwon, and parts of Ballarat East, Bellarine, Geelong, Polwarth and Rippon.