Juliana Addison | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Constituency Am: | Wendouree |
Assembly: | Victorian Legislative |
Term Start: | 24 November 2018 |
Predecessor: | Sharon Knight |
Birth Name: | Juliana Dickinson |
Birth Date: | 1974 8, df=y |
Birth Place: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia |
Party: | Labor Party |
Alma Mater: | Monash University University of Melbourne |
Committees: | Economy and Infrastructure Committee |
Juliana Marie Addison[1] (born 1 August 1974)[2] is an Australian politician serving as the elected member for the Electoral district of Wendouree in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party.
For 11 years prior to the 2018 election, Addison was a teacher at Ballarat Clarendon College,[3] where she taught humanities.[4] She was also a Board Director at Ballarat Health Services[5]
Addison was elected as member for Wendouree at the 2018 Victorian state election after the retirement of her predecessor, Sharon Knight.[6]
, she is chair of the parliamentary environment and planning committee.[7]
Addison was re-elected at the 2022 state election for her second term,[8] defeating Liberal candidate and former mayor of Ballarat Samantha McIntosh.[9]
Addison lives in Ballarat with her husband and two young daughters.[10]