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Daryl Melham
Australian politician

Daryl Melham

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Australian politician
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Place of birth
Sydney, Australia
Age
70 years
Education
Bachelor of Economics
University of Sydney
Bachelor of Laws
Sydney Law School
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Biography

Daryl Melham AM (born 26 November 1954) is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Banks in New South Wales from March 1990 until September 2013.

Early life and education

Melham was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to a family of Lebanese descent and studied law and economics at the University of Sydney, earning an LL.B. and a B.Ec.

Career

Legal career

Melham was a barrister and solicitor and a public defender before entering politics. He was Vice-President of the New South Wales Labor Party from 1999 until 2002.

Melham worked as a solicitor with the Legal Aid Commission of New South Wales, specialising in criminal law from 1979 to 1987. He was subsequently admitted to the bar as a barrister, and was a public defender until his entry into federal politics in 1990. He is also a foundation member of the NSW Society of Labor Lawyers.

Melham is a Life Member and the current President of the Revesby Workers' Club.

Political career

Elected to Parliament in 1990, Melham entered the Opposition Shadow Ministry following Labor's electoral defeat in 1996. He served as Shadow Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs but resigned in 2000 after a policy disagreement with the then Labor leader Kim Beazley. He returned to the Opposition Shadow Ministry in 2001 and he was Shadow Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Local Government from December 2003, resigning from the front bench soon after the Labor Party's election defeat in October 2004.

Melham and colleague Lindsay Tanner were the only Labor MPs to openly speak out against the Howard Government's proposed anti-terrorism legislation which provides for harsher punishments for sedition and grants police new shoot-to-kill powers. Melham also spoke out against the Howard government's changes to the rules concerning political donations, which allowed donations of up to A$10,000 to be given to political parties without public disclosure. Melham was quoted as saying in May 2006:

"We're going to have the best politicians money can buy, but we won't see [how much]."

Melham resigned as the Federal Labor caucus chair on 30 October 2012. Following the 2010 election, Melham's usually high margin in Banks was reduced to a low 1.5%. He lost the seat at the 2013 federal election against the Liberal candidate, David Coleman.

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