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Jan Barham is a 62-year-old Australian politician who has been a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2007. She is a member of the Australian Greens and was the party's leader in the Legislative Council from 2011 to 2015.
Barham was born in Unanderra, New South Wales, and attended the University of New England, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1981. She then worked as a teacher and a librarian before entering politics.
Barham was first elected to the Legislative Council in 2007 and was re-elected in 2011 and 2015. She has served as the Greens' spokesperson for Education, Environment, and Planning and Infrastructure.
Barham is married to John Barham and has two children. She is a keen gardener and enjoys reading, walking, and swimming.
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In 2016, Barham took a leave of absence from parliament, suffering from exhaustion and depression. On her return in October, she announced that she had decided to resign from the parliament for health reasons. On 22 February, Dawn Walker was elected by a joint sitting of the parliament to fill the casual vacancy.
In 2012 Barham had to resign as Mayor of Byron Shire, as a result of new state laws (labelled in the media as the "Get Clover" laws) preventing dual membership of state parliament and local councils.
She was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council at the 2011 state election.
In 2011, Barham's portfolio responsibilities within the Greens included: Family and Community Services, Ageing, Disability Services, Aboriginal Affairs, Arts, and Tourism.
Barham grew up in Wollongong in the southern suburb of Unanderra and was educated at Figtree High School. She later attended university in Newcastle, but did not graduate. She later went on to study at Wollongong TAFE and then won a statewide scholarship to attend East Sydney Tech, where she earned two trade certificates. Upon completion, she undertook work experience with a fashion company and then was then offered a full‐time job in the fashion industry in Sydney, where she lived for eight years prior to moving to the North Coast in 1989, where she currently resides.
She ran as a member of the Greens for the federal seat of Richmond in 2001 and for the state seat of Ballina in 2003.
In 1999, Barham was elected to Byron Shire Council. In 2002, after the Greens gained minority control of the council, she became deputy mayor and, in 2004, she was the first Green mayor to be popularly elected in NSW and served a second term as Mayor of Byron Shire, having been reelected in 2008.
Barham was elected Vice President of the NSW Local Government Association and has been a member of state boards and committees including the Ministerial Advisory Council on Women, the Natural Resources Advisory Sub Committee on Coasts and Natural Environment and the Northern Rivers Tourism Board. She has been a member of Cape Byron Headland Trust Committee from 1997 and on the Management Committee of the Arakwal National Park from 2001.
Barham was secretary of the Tweed Byron Greens in 1993-4 and in 1995 was assistant secretary of the Greens NSW. She worked as a staffer for Green MP Ian Cohen in state parliament from 1995 until 1999.
Janette Louise Barham (born 8 October 1958) is an Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 2011 and 2017.
