Trent Zimmerman
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Trent Zimmerman MP |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for North Sydney |
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Assumed office 5 December 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Joe Hockey |
| Councillor of the City of North Sydney Council | |
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In office 27 March 2004 – 8 September 2012 |
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| Constituency | Wollstonecraft Ward |
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| Born |
Trent Moir Zimmerman 15 October 1968 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Political party | Liberal Party |
| Parents | Roy Zimmerman OAM Brenda Zimmerman |
| Education |
Newington College University of Sydney |
Trent Moir Zimmerman (born 15 October 1968) is an Australian politician. He was elected to succeed Joe Hockey as the Liberal Party of Australia member of the House of Representatives seat of North Sydney at the 2015 by-election. Zimmerman is one of eight openly LGBTI current members of the Parliament of Australia and the first openly LGBTI member of the House of Representatives.
He was a vice-president and acting-President of the NSW Division of the Liberal Party of Australia and was also previously Deputy Chief Executive and Director, Transport Policy, of the Tourism and Transport Forum of Australia. He is a member of the board of Epilepsy Action Australia.
Zimmerman was born in Sydney and is one of two children of Roy and Brenda Zimmerman. His father, Roy Zimmerman OAM, was Master-in-Charge of the GPS preparatory school Wyvern House from 1966 until 1996. Zimmerman attended Newington College, commencing in Wyvern House in 1974 and completing his HSC in 1986. He then studied for a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney.
After working in the NSW Parliament, Zimmerman became a ministerial adviser in the federal government of John Howard in the environment and heritage portfolio and later as an adviser to then Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey.
He was President of the Young Liberal Movement of NSW from 1992 to 1993. Zimmerman was a councillor on North Sydney Council for two terms until the local government elections of 2012. During his time as a councillor, Zimmerman lived openly as a gay man and worked actively on LGBT issues, describing the de-funding of the NorthAIDS program as "unforgivable". He also served as Vice President of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Business Association.
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