Carina Garland

Carina Mary Lindsay Garland is an Australian politician. She has served as a Labor MP for Chisholm since the 2022 Australian federal election.

Early life and education

Garland was born in Traralgon, Victoria. Her father was a general practitioner and ran a practice in Melbourne's south-east with her mother, a nurse. Her maternal grandfather immigrated to Australia from Italy in the 1950s.

Garland grew up in Clayton. She attended Sacré Cœur School in Glen Iris. She later completed an English literature honours degree at Monash University and a PhD in gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney.

Political career

Before her election to the Australian House of Representatives, Garland served as the assistant secretary for the Victorian Trades Hall Council, as well as a parliamentary staffer. Garland was preselected to stand in Chisholm for Labor at the 2022 federal election in July 2021, and won the seat with an 8.1-point swing in her direction, defeating Liberal incumbent Gladys Liu. In the Labor caucus, Garland is a member of the Labor Left faction.