Gordon Reid | |
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Member of the Australian Parliament for Robertson | |
Assumed office 22 May 2022 | |
Preceded by | Lucy Wicks |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] | 16 August 1992
Nationality | Australian |
Political party | Australian Labor Party |
Alma mater | University of Newcastle |
Occupation | Emergency Department doctor |
Gordon James Reid (born 16 August 1992) is an Australian medical practitioner and politician. He has been the Labor MP for Robertson,New South Wales since the 2022 Australian federal election.
Reid is a Wiradjuri man who was on born 16 August 1992 on Darkinjung country and grew up on the Central Coast. [2] [3]
He attended Umina Beach Public School and Central Coast Grammar School,before studying medicine at the University of Newcastle,completing his B.Med. in 2016. [2]
Reid previously worked as an emergency doctor. [4] He said that he decided to run for Parliament while working in the Emergency Department at Wyong Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia,seeing people waiting for treatment. [5]
In the 2022 Australian federal election,Reid defeated Liberal incumbent Lucy Wicks in Robertson. [6] He became one of six First Nations people in the Labor Caucus. [3]
In 2023,Andrew Bolt —a columnist whose views have been found to breach the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 —alleged that Dr Reid had lied about his indigenous heritage. [7]
He is co-chair of Parliamentary friends of the Uluru Statement ,a non-partisan group launched on 13 February 2023 to support the "Yes" campaign for the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum,along with the Liberal Party's Bridget Archer and Independent Allegra Spender. [8]
Reid speaks Indonesian and plays the saxophone. [3]
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