Balmain Greens MP Jamie Parker to quit politics at state election | LucyCormack Rabe9
Long-serving Greens MP Jamie Parker will quit politics after almost 12 years as the member for Balmain, leaving the seat within reach for Labor for the first time in more than a decade.
Parker said he was committed to keeping the Greens in power in the Balmain electorate, after steadily growing his margin over the past three terms. Parker won Balmain in 2011, unseating then-education minister Verity Firth in the final term of the last Labor government. It has the state’s third-highest proportion of high-income families, with almost a quarter of the 58,000-strong population earning more than $4500 a week and the second-highest female workforce participation rate.
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