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Zoe Daniel
MP
Zoe Daniel in 2023
Member of the Australian Parliament for Goldstein
Incumbent
Assumed office
21 May 2022
Preceded byTim Wilson
Personal details
Born (1972-11-28) 28 November 1972 (age 51)[1]
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Political partyIndependent
Children2
OccupationJournalist
Known for
  • Foreign correspondent
  • television host
  • commentator
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Websitezoedaniel.com.au

Zoe Daniel (born 28 November 1972)[2] is an Australian politician and former journalist. She was elected as the first independent member of parliament for the Division of Goldstein at the 2022 Australian federal election. Prior to entering Parliament, Zoe Daniel was a journalist for the ABC, from 1993 until 2020. She was an ABC foreign correspondent in three different postings, including Southeast Asia, the USA and Africa. Her most recent posting was as the ABC’s U.S. bureau chief between 2015 and 2019, where she led the ABC's coverage of the presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.[3]

Early life

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Daniel's father is former Essendon footballer Peter Daniel.[4] The family moved to Launceston, Tasmania, when she was two years old,[5] when her father was working there as a football coach.[4]

Journalism career

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Zoe Daniel worked as a journalist and foreign correspondent for the ABC from 1993 until 2020.[6]

Zoe Daniel's last role with the ABC was as the ABC's Bureau Chief in the US. Daniel wrote a book about her experience covering the 2016 Presidential campaign of Donald Trump, titled Greetings from Trumpland: How an unprecedented presidency changed everything.

Zoe Daniel reported on the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[7]

Between 2005 and 2007, Daniel was the ABC’s Africa correspondent. While working in Africa, she reported on the regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone civil war, the Darfur genocide and South Sudan.[8]

In 2009, she moved to Phnom Penh where she reported on the Khmer Rouge tribunal.[9]

From 2009 until 2013, Daniel was the ABC's Southeast Asian correspondent.[10] At the time, Daniel's posting while a mother of young children was unprecedented for ABC correspondents.[11] During her time there she reported on the 2010 Thai political protests and interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi.[12]

After 27 years with ABC News, Daniel decided to finish her career with the organisation, leaving in July 2020.[13][14]

As of November 2021, Daniel was writing a column for The New Daily.[15]

Politics

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Daniel's office in Brighton East
Daniel with Ian Macphee, former MP for Goldstein

Daniel was endorsed by Voices of Goldstein as an independent candidate to run in the 2022 federal election in the seat of Goldstein.[16] Her candidacy was endorsed by former member for Indi, Cathy McGowan, former leader of the Liberal Party, John Hewson, and minister in the Fraser government and former Liberal member for Goldstein, Ian Macphee.[17][18]

Daniel is a self-described swinging voter, as a consequence of her father's "negative experience of party politics".[19] She describes herself as a "social progressive, economic conservative".[20][21] She cast her vote for the Liberals at the 2016 Australian federal election on the basis of what she perceived to be Malcolm Turnbull's commitment to addressing the climate crisis.[22] During the campaign, she stated that she had campaigned for "faster and stronger action on climate change, restoration of integrity and trust in politics and real equality and safety for women."[23]

Daniel is part of a network of community independents that campaigned in safe Liberal seats.[24]

Daniel was successful at the 2022 election, defeating the incumbent Liberal MP, Tim Wilson in what had been a safe seat.[25]

Israel

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In 2021 Daniel signed an open letter titled 'Do Better on Palestine' describing Israel as an "apartheid regime" urging for Australian journalists to improve the coverage of Palestinian perspectives and rights of journalists to report freely.[26] After condemnation from the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, Daniel stated she would have framed the open letter "very differently" and does not accept the characterisation of the situation in Israel as "apartheid".[27] Daniel further stated it was "not innately antisemitic to criticise the government of Israel".[28]

Daniel states she supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict.[29]

Following the seventh October attacks on Israel, on 27 October 2023, Daniel publicly stated on X that she supported the decision of local councils to raise the Palestinian flag and that Jewish members of the Goldstein community would support it.[30]

Integrity and Anti-Corruption

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During the 2022 campaign Daniel campaigned for the establishment of a Federal Anti-corruption commission.[31]

In October 2024, Daniel was referred to the Federal anti-corruption commission by Former Liberal MP Jason Falinski for allegedly misusing taxpayer-funded staff to lobby on behalf of Daniel's campaign donor, Simon Holmes à Court.[32] After the referral became public, Daniel stated in a media release that the staff member who was alleged to have lobbied on behalf of Simon Holmes a Court did so without Daniel's knowledge and was not employed by the Commonwealth at the time. Daniel further claimed the staff member contacted the Australian Financial Review not to lobby on Holmes à Court's behalf, but to instead disperse a concern that the paper would imply in an upcoming article that Holmes à Court "holds a position of male power over the female community independents on the crossbench".[33]

Personal life

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Zoe Daniel is married to husband Rowan and has two children.[10] She and her family moved to their current home in Hampton in 2013 and her children attended Sandringham Primary School.[16]

Zoe Daniel is a keen sportswoman who regularly runs and swims. She is a supporter and member of the Essendon Football Club.[34]

Books

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  • Storyteller: A Foreign Correspondent's Memoir, ABC Books, 2014, ISBN 978-0733332319
  • Angel: Through My Eyes – Natural Disaster Zones, Allen & Unwin, 2018, ISBN 978-1760113773
  • Greetings from Trumpland: How an unprecedented presidency changed everything, Harper Collins, 2021, ISBN 978-0733341519

References

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  1. ^ Perkins, Miki (25 November 2021). "Former ABC reporter Zoe Daniel to fight Liberals on climate and integrity". The Age. 9 Entertainment. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Ms Zoe Daniel MP". Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 20 February 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Zoe Daniel". Q+A. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Windy Hill or Washington, 'dare to be a Daniel' | Footyology". Archived from the original on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  5. ^ Abblitt, Ebony (11 March 2021). "Foreign correspondent returns home for book launch". The Examiner. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Zoe Daniel". UN Global Compact Network Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Zoe Daniel". The Wheeler Centre. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  8. ^ "Zoe Daniel appointed Washington bureau chief". About the ABC. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  9. ^ Dimase, Jacinta. "Zoe Daniel". Jacinta Dimase Management – Literary Agency. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  10. ^ a b DANIEL, ZOE (9 May 2014). "'I'm a mum and I work in a war zone'". news.com.au. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Life on the road". About the ABC. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  12. ^ "Zoe Daniel – a working journalist profile". upstart. 27 August 2012. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  13. ^ "Correcting Sharri Markson and Remy Varga in The Australian". About the ABC. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2022. ... Zoe Daniel left the ABC in July 2020...
  14. ^ Daniel, Zoe. "Zoe Daniel – Posts Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on 9 November 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2022. I've decided to leave ABC news after 27 years...
  15. ^ Brown, Greg (26 November 2021). "Former ABC journalist to take on sitting Lib". The Australian. Archived from the original on 2 December 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  16. ^ a b "Former ABC journalist Zoe Daniel to run as an independent against Liberal MP Tim Wilson in Victoria". the Guardian. 25 November 2021. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  17. ^ Perkins, Miki (25 November 2021). "Former ABC reporter Zoe Daniel to fight Liberals on climate and integrity". The Age. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  18. ^ Hislop, Madeline (25 November 2021). "Former journalist Zoe Daniel to run as an independent against Liberal MP Tim Wilson". Women's Agenda. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  19. ^ Margo Kingston [@margokingston1] (22 February 2022). "16. Statement by @zdaniel in response to @TimWilsonMP's email to supporters (Tweet 9)" (Tweet). Retrieved 13 May 2022 – via Twitter.
  20. ^ The Project [@theprojecttv] (8 May 2022). "Independent candidate Zoe Daniel is fighting for the seat of Goldstein this election. Zoe joins us, and shares which party she will side with if elected. #TheProject" (Tweet). Retrieved 13 May 2022 – via Twitter.
  21. ^ Millar, Royce (15 May 2022). "Zoe on Zoe: What the Goldstein independent wants from the next government". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 16 May 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  22. ^ Seccombe, Mike (4 December 2021). "Independents: Inside the insurrection of the centre". The Saturday Paper. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  23. ^ Crowe, David. "'Not a reason not to talk': Key independent candidates list demands in event of hung parliament". Archived from the original on 23 April 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  24. ^ "Meet three independent women aiming to conquer Liberal strongholds". The New Daily. 26 November 2021. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  25. ^ "Bridget Archer considers running for Liberal deputy as Peter Dutton tipped as potential leader". SBS News. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  26. ^ https://dobetteronpalestine.com/open-letter-from-australian-journalists-media-workers-writers-and-commentators-%EF%BF%BC/
  27. ^ https://www.australianjewishnews.com/do-better-for-goldstein/amp/
  28. ^ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/10/17/zoe-daniel-goldstein-tim-wilson-teal-independent/
  29. ^ https://zoedaniel.com.au/policies/jewish-community/
  30. ^ Daniel, Zoe (27 October 2023). "This is a position that I support. And I know that many in the large Jewish community that I represent would support it too. Everyone is frightened. Everyone is grieving. That pain and fear crosses boundaries beyond Hamas. That must be acknowledged".
  31. ^ https://zoedaniel.com.au/policies/integrity/
  32. ^ https://thenightly.com.au/politics/australia/teal-mp-zoe-daniel-referred-to-national-anti-corruption-commission-over-simon-holmes-court-favour-c-16263281
  33. ^ https://zoedaniel.com.au/2024/10/04/inaccurate-media-reports/
  34. ^ "The private interests of Zoe Daniel MP". openpolitics.com.au.
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