Michael Organ
| Michael Keith Organ | |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Cunningham | |
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In office 19 October 2002 – 8 October 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Stephen Martin |
| Succeeded by | Sharon Bird |
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22 September 1956 Bulli, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Greens |
| Children | Andrew, Kyle, India, Emma |
| Occupation | University library archivist |
| Website | Home page (2011) |
Michael Keith Organ (born 22 September 1956) is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Greens member of the Australian House of Representatives between 2002 and 2004, representing the Division of Cunningham, New South Wales. He was the first member of the Greens to win a seat in the House of Representatives, having won a by-election which the Liberal Party did not contest.
Organ was born in Bulli, New South Wales. His mother was a hospital domestic and his father was a brickworker. He studied geology at the University of Wollongong and completed a post-graduate diploma in archive administration at the University of New South Wales, where he subsequently took up a post as an archivist. He has been employed at the University of Wollongong library, as an archivist (1996–2002) and, as of 5 May 2013[update], manager, repository services.
Three months prior to the Cunningham by-election, he unsuccessfully contested the local government election for the lord mayorship of Wollongong.
He has four children, Andrew (b. 1991), Kyle (b. 1993), India (b. 2008) and Emma (b. 2011).
The federal division of Cunningham has been a safe Labor seat since its creation in 1949. On 16 August 2002, the sitting member, Dr. Stephen Martin, unexpectedly resigned, causing a by-election.
The ALP preselected a TAFE teacher, Sharon Bird, by decision of the party executive rather than the usual rank-and-file nomination procedure, and the Liberal party opted not to contest the by-election.
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