Jordon Steele-John
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Senator Jordon Steele-John |
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| Senator for Western Australia | |
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Assumed office 10 November 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Scott Ludlam |
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Jordon Alexander Steele-John 14 October 1994 Northampton, England |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Greens |
| Alma mater | Macquarie University |
| Occupation | Disability advocate |
Jordon Alexander Steele-John (born 14 October 1994) is an Australian disability rights advocate and politician, who is a member of the Australian Senate representing Western Australia for the Australian Greens replacing Scott Ludlam, who resigned after realising his New Zealand citizenship had not been renounced.
Steele-John was appointed at age 23, the youngest sitting member in the Australian parliament, and youngest ever senator. On 27 October 2017 the High Court of Australia, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, ordered the Australian Electoral Commission to conduct a recount of senate ballots in Western Australia, and Steele-John was elected in that recount.
Born in the United Kingdom, Steele-John came as a young child to Australia with his parents. Steele-John is a disability advocate and university student, who has stood for the Greens in both federal and state elections. He uses a wheelchair due to mild cerebral palsy, and is studying politics at Macquarie University by correspondence. A deferral of studies is expected.
He has an English accent, but is "absolutely sure" of his single-citizenship of Australia, having renounced British citizenship in preparation for the 2013 federal election.
Prior to being listed as third senate candidate for the Greens in the 2016 federal election (behind Scott Ludlam and Rachel Siewert), Steele-John had been a candidate for the WA Greens three times. At the March 2013 state election in the electorate of Warnbro (receiving 8.8% primary vote), the September 2013 federal election in the electorate of Fremantle (receiving 11.9% primary vote) and in the April 2014 special half-senate election which followed the result of the 2013 election being voided by the Court of Disputed Returns (as the fourth candidate on the Greens' list).
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