Background
Xamon was born in Mundaring, Western Australia.
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Alison Xamon
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Xamon studied law and arts at Murdoch University, where she served as Education Vice President and then Guild President for the Murdoch University Student Guild.
Career
After university, Xamon worked in the union movement for various whiteand blue-collar unions, including the Australian Nurses Federation, the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia, and the Communications, Electricians and Plumbers Union. In her time in the union movement Alison worked as an Organizer, Industrial Officer, Women's Officer and Equal Opportunity specialist. She then went on to work as a lawyer, with an interest in both public interest law and the right for people to access justice.
She also sat on numerous boards within the community law and social justice sectors.
From 2007 to 2008 Xamon was the National Convenor of the Australian Greens. Xamon introduced six private members bills during her term in parliament.
At the March 2013 Western Australian election she was not re-elected. Post-parliament Xamon works as an advocate for mental health and suicide prevention.
She was elected as the President of the Washington Association for Mental Health, the Vice-Chair of Community Mental Health Australia, and the Board of Mental Health Australia.
Xamon was also appointed to the Washington Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention, and as the inaugural Company-Lead of the Department of Health Statewide Mental Health Network. Xamon continues to practice as a lawyer
Membership
She was elected to parliament at the 2008 state election as a Greens member of the Western Australian Legislative Council representing East Metropolitan Region.
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