David Risstrom
David Eric Risstrom is an Australian barrister and politician. He was a City of Melbourne councillor from 1999 until 2004, when he resigned to contest the 2004 federal election as the lead Senate candidate for the Australian Greens in Victoria but was unsuccessful due to group voting ticket preferences. He later served as president of the Friends of the ABC pressure group.
Risstrom was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, the University of Melbourne (B.A.), and the Australian National University (B.Sc., LL.B.) before beginning his practice as a barrister.
In 1999, Risstrom became the first member of the Australian Greens Victoria to be elected to public office in Victoria when he was elected to Melbourne City Council with 9% of the primary vote, in a proportional representation electoral system. He was re-elected in 2001.
In 2004, Risstrom resigned from Melbourne City Council to contest the 2004 Australian federal election as the Victorian Greens candidate for the Australian Senate. He was unsuccessful.[1]
Risstrom was selected as the Greens candidate for the federal seat of Cooper in the 2019 Australian federal election. The announcement was made by the Victorian senator Janet Rice several months before the 2019 federal election.[2]
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- ↑ 2004 Final Victoria Senate Results, Australia Votes, ABC
- ↑ Hall, Bianca (21 February 2019). "Greens pick barrister to fight Labor in seat formerly known as Batman". The Age. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
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