Janelle Saffin
| Janelle Saffin | |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Page |
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In office 24 November 2007 – 7 September 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Ian Causley |
| Succeeded by | Kevin Hogan |
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1 November 1954 Ipswich, Queensland |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Profession | Teacher, lawyer |
Janelle Anne Saffin (born 1 November 1954) is an Australian former politician. She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives seat of Page from the 2007 election until the 2013 election.
She previously served as a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1995 to 2003.
Saffin was born into a working-class family in Ipswich in Queensland. She left school at thirteen, and worked in a range of unskilled jobs before gaining her Intermediate Certificate at TAFE. She moved to Lismore at the age of 24, and began working as the co-ordinator of a women's refuge. She also established a domestic violence liaison committee with the local police, which was the first of its kind outside Sydney. She later gained a teaching qualification at the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education, and taught for a period before deciding to retrain as a lawyer and gaining a degree by correspondence from Macquarie University.
She ran as the Labor candidate for the seat of Lismore at the 1991 state election, but was defeated by incumbent National Party MP Barry Rixon. Four years later, she contested and won preselection for the eighth and last winnable position on the Labor ticket for the Legislative Council at the 1995 state election. Labor's victory at the election thus saw her comfortably elected, albeit on preferences, on election day.
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