Labor People - Jason Clare

Jason Clare

Parliamentary Secretary for Employment

Blaxland Electorate Office
Suite 7, Level 1,
400 Chapel Road
Bankstown NSW 2200
Postal Address:
PO Box 153
Bankstown NSW 1885
(02) 9790 2466
(02) 9790 0770

Parliament House Office
PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
(02) 6277 4903
(02) 6277 8417
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Biography

Jason Clare was elected to the federal parliament at the November 2007 election. In 2009, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Employment.

Jason was born and raised in Blaxland and attended Cabramatta Public School and Canley Vale High School. He was the dux of Canley Vale High School in 1989.

When he left school he joined the Labor Party and was the secretary of the Cabramatta Branch for 10 years (1992 to 2001).

Jason has a BA (Hons) LLB from the University of NSW. He was a senior adviser to former NSW Premier Bob Carr and an executive at Transurban, one of Australia’s Top 100 companies.

Electorate Profile: Blaxland

State: New South Wales

Name Derivation: Named after Gregory Blaxland 1778-1853, an early Australian explorer of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.

Area and Location Description: Blaxland covers an area of approximately 58 sq km from Cabramatta, Fairfield East and Yennora in the west, to Greenacre in the east, Guildford West, Chester Hill and Chullora in the north to Rabaul Road, Marion Street and the Sydenham Bankstown railway line in the south. Suburbs include Bass Hill, Birrong, Carramar, Chullora, Fairfield East, Georges Hall, Guildford West, Old Guildford, Landsdowne, Lansvale, Mt. Lewis, Woodpark, Yagoona, Yennora and parts of Bankstown, Cabramatta, Chester Hill, Greenacre, Punchbowl, Sefton, Villawood and Wiley Park.

Products/Industries of the Area: Railway workshops, aircraft repairs, transport and storage industries.

First Proclaimed/Election: 1949

Demographic Rating: Inner Metropolitan

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