Paul O'Halloran

Paul Basil O'Halloran (born 17 April 1950) is a former Australian politician.

Paul O'Halloran
Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
for Braddon
In office
20 March 2010 – 15 March 2014
Personal details
Born (1950-04-17) 17 April 1950
Ouse, Tasmania, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Political partyGreens

Early life

O'Halloran grew up on a dairy farm at Preolenna on the north west coast of Tasmania and later moved to North Motton. Early in life he was a Labor supporter, but his activism in the Franklin Dam dispute lead him to the Greens. Prior to politics, he was a schoolteacher and administrator and later a scientist at the University of Tasmania, where he managed a university agricultural industry project aimed at linking educator providers with industry.[1]

Political career

O'Halloran was a Greens candidate for several state elections before being elected to the Division of Braddon in the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 2010, receiving 7.9% of first preference votes.[2] O'Halloran is the first Greens member for Braddon since Di Hollister lost her seat in 1998.

He was not re-elected at the 2014 House of Assembly elections.[3]

gollark: If you want to know about what *you* should do, then it's more reasonable to ask about the morality of actions, not people, because the people way runs into accursed counterfactuals very fast.
gollark: For that the purpose is probably something like "should you be eternally tortured", which I think the answer to is literally always "no".
gollark: First, consider for what purpose you want to know whether it's "evil" or not to have been that person.
gollark: I don't believe in objective evil and I subscribe to the view that asking whether something is "evil" or not is not very useful because it's a very fuzzy word/category.
gollark: /are doing

References
  1. "Greens win Braddon seat". The Mercury. 31 March 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  2. "House of Assembly 2010 results - Braddon - first preferences". Archived from the original on 6 April 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
  3. "2014 House of Assembly Summary of Elected Members". Tasmanian Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 6 April 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.


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