Jason Falinski
Jason George Falinski is an Australian politician who was elected as the Member for Mackellar in the Australian House of Representatives at the 2016 Australian election.Biography
Falinski was born in Manly, New South Wales. His Jewish father, Stanisław, was born in what is now Kyrgyzstan, to Russian and Polish parents; he grew up in Kraków before the family immigrated to Australia in 1946, settling in Collaroy. On his mother's side, Falinski has English and Irish heritage.
Falinski graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics and from the Australian Graduate School of Management at UNSW Sydney with a MBA.
Falinski was a president of the New South Wales branch of the Young Liberals in 1994–1995. Later he would serve as the Vice-President, in 1996–1996, and President, in 1997–1998, of the Australian Young Liberals. He was formerly the chief executive of CareWell Health.
Falinski has been involved in non-parliamentary politics for more than twenty years, including as an adviser to former Liberal leaders John Hewson and Barry O'Farrell, and was a spokesperson for the Australian Republican Movement. Falinski formerly sat on Warringah Council.
In April 2016, Falinski won a preselection battle over the incumbent member, former Speaker Bronwyn Bishop, to represent the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2016 Australian election in the safe Liberal seat of Mackellar.
