Mark Parnell

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Hon. Mark Parnell
Hon. Mark Parnell

Mark Parnell is an Australian politician and the first SA Greens representative in the South Australian Legislative Council, having won a seat in the 2006 state election. His term will expire in March 2014.

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[edit] Qualifications

Parnell holds a Bachelor of Laws (University of Melbourne), Bachelor of Commerce (University of Melbourne), and a Master of Regional and Urban Planning (University of South Australia), and he has been admitted as Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of Victoria and South Australia.

[edit] Pre-political career

Parnell was a founding member of the South Australian Greens and, prior to being elected, was a solicitor with the Environmental Defender's Office, a free community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law. In ten years with the Environmental Defenders Office, Mark helped many hundreds of clients on a wide range of state and national planning, pollution, biodiversity or resource matters. In 1999, he successfully represented the Conservation Council of South Australia in the State's longest ever environment trial, over tuna feedlots in Louth Bay. He also represented the Whyalla Red Dust Action Group Inc in its long-running campaign for environmental justice over OneSteel (formerly BHP) dust emissions from the Whyalla Steelworks.

He has also worked as a campaigner with The Wilderness Society and the Australian Conservation Foundation.

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