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Ms Liesl Dorothy TESCH, AM, BSc MP

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Member of the Legislative Assembly
Member for Gosford
Member of the Australian Labor Party
Contact Details
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Gosford Electorate Office
A Ms Liesl Tesch, MP
20 Blackwall Road
WOY WOY NSW 2256
P (02) 4342 4122
F (02) 4341 2368
E gosford@parliament.nsw.gov.au

Parliamentary Activity
Current Positions
Position Start Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 08 Apr 2017
Member for Gosford 08 Apr 2017
Parliamentary Record
Ms Tesch's speeches in Hansard
Ms Tesch's questions published in the Question & Answer Paper
Ms Tesch's Notices of Motion given in Parliament
About the Gosford Electorate
Provincial. Residential and semi-rural. Located within the Central Coast region.

Includes the suburbs and towns of: Bar Point, Blackwall, Booker Bay, Calga, Central Mangrove, Cheero Point, Cogra Bay, East Gosford, Ettalong Beach, Glenworth Valley, Gosford, Greengrove, Gunderman, Horsfield Bay, Kariong, Koolewong, Kulnura, Little Wobby, Lower Mangrove, Mangrove Creek, Mangrove Mountain, Marlow, Mooney Mooney, Mooney Mooney Creek, Mount White, Narara, Niagara Park, North Gosford, Patonga, Pearl Beach, Peats Ridge, Phegans Bay, Point Clare, Point Frederick, Somersby, Spencer, Springfield, Tascott, Umina Beach, Wendoree Park, West Gosford, Wondabyne, Woy Woy, Woy Woy Bay.

Area: 867.15 sq km.

Population: 71,112. Enrolment: 56,501.

For more detailed information see - https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/District-profiles/Gosford
Biography
Political Party Activity

2013 to present Member, Umina-Ettalong Branch of the Australian Labor Party.

Community Activity

Co-Founder and Director, Sport Matters 2011 to 2017. Ambassador, Sport Matters, 2013 to 2017. Ambassador, Sailability NSW, 2014 to present. Ambassador, Fairhaven Services, 2015 to present. Ambassador, The Primary Club of Australia, 2015 to present. Ambassador, Waterline Challenge, 2016 to present.

Local Government Activity

Military Service

Honours Received

Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 26 January 2014. Sir Roden Cutler Award, 2014. Member, Basketball NSW Hall of Fame, Basketball NSW, 2015. Member, Basketball Hall of Fame, Basketball Australia, 2016. President's Award, Sailing Australia, 2016.

Personal

Qualifications, Occupations and Interests

Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Newcastle, 1990. Diploma in Education, University of Newcastle, 1991.

1992 to 2017 NSW Department of Education. 1990 to 2008 Member, Australian Women's Wheelchair Basketball Team (Sydney 2000 Silver, Athens 2004 Silver, Beijing 2008 Bronze). Member, Australian Paralympic Sailing Team (London 2012 Gold, Rio 2016 Silver).

Interests include - Sailing, wheelchair basketball, kayaking, gardening, cycling, travelling, #ProudParalympian.

Additional Information

Inaugural Speech, 11 May 2017:

The Parliament of New South Wales acknowledges and respects the traditional lands of all Aboriginal people, and pays respects to all Elders past and present. We acknowledge the Gadigal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which the Parliament of New South Wales stands.