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Place of Birth: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
About Penny Sharpe
- Penelope Gail Sharpe (born 22 October 1970) is an Australian politician.
- She has served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2005, representing the Labor Party. In the Labor Party leadership contest in November 2018, Sharpe was elected Deputy Leader under Michael Daley.
- After Daley's resignation in the aftermath of the March 2019 state election, Sharpe became interim Leader, serving until the June leadership election, which she did not contest.
- She was succeeded as leader by Jodi McKay and as deputy leader by Yasmin Catley.Sharpe was briefly absent from the Legislative Council in 2015 when she resigned to contest the Legislative Assembly seat of Newtown at the 2015 state election.
- Newtown was a new seat partially replacing Carmel Tebbutt's abolished seat of Marrickville, which had been left open by Tebbutt's retirement.
- Sharpe was defeated in Newtown by Greens candidate Jenny Leong, and was subsequently re-appointed to the Legislative Council to fill her own vacancy. Sharpe, a mother of three, was the first open lesbian to serve in the New South Wales parliament.
- Sharpe is aligned with the Labor Left faction.
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