Jo Briskey
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Jo Briskey | |
|---|---|
 Briskey in 2025 | |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Maribyrnong | |
| Assumed office 3 May 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Bill Shorten |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Labor |
| Relations | Darryl Briskey (father) |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland |
| Occupation | Psychologist Executive Trade unionist |
| Website | jobriskey |
Joanna Leigh Briskey is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since the 2025 federal election, representing the Victorian seat of Maribyrnong.
Briskey is the daughter of Darryl Briskey, who was a Queensland state government minister.[1] Her paternal grandfather Bob Briskey was national president of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union and a long-serving chair of Credit Union Australia, which originated as the Queensland Postal Cooperative.[2]
Briskey attended All Hallows' School in Brisbane.[3] She holds the degree of Bachelor of Psychology from the University of Queensland and later completed a Master of Educational and Developmental Psychology. She worked as a tutor at Queensland University of Technology, as a research therapist at Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, and as a mental health policy adviser to Queensland health minister Geoff Wilson.[1]
Briskey held senior executive roles with The Parenthood, a registered charity and advocacy group associated with the United Workers Union (UWU).[4] In 2019, following her defeat at the 2019 federal election, she moved from Queensland to Victoria to become national coordinator of the UWU.[5]
