Sam Dastyari
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Senator Sam Dastyari |
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Dastyari at the Sydney Mardi Gras in 2014
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| Senator for New South Wales | |
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Assumed office 21 August 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Matt Thistlethwaite |
| Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate | |
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In office 23 July 2016 – 7 September 2016 |
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| Leader | Penny Wong |
| Preceded by | Claire Moore |
| Succeeded by | Katy Gallagher |
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Sahand Dastyari 28 July 1983 Sari, Iran |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Barron (m. 2010) |
| Residence | Russell Lea, New South Wales |
| Alma mater |
University of Sydney Macquarie University |
Sahand "Sam" Dastyari (born 28 July 1983) is an Australian Senator representing New South Wales, and former General Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. He is the first person of Iranian origin to sit in an Australian parliament.
Born in Sari, Mazandaran Province, Iran to an ethnic Azeri father and Persian mother, Dastyari arrived in Australia in January 1988, aged four. His parents were student activists in the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Dastyari attended John Purchase Public School in Cherrybrook, where he was elected school captain (before the principal vetoed the election result), and Baulkham Hills High School, where he was school vice-captain and graduated in 2001. Although he was admitted to medicine, he decided to study law and enrolled at the University of Sydney, where he studied for a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws. Dastyari soon dropped out, having been "so caught up in the movement and student politics". He has since completed undergraduate studies at Macquarie University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in politics and studied part-time.
Dastyari joined the Labor Party at 16, running the Labor Club while at university, as a "student wheeler-dealer", and becoming President of Young Labor.
Dastyari lives in Sydney's inner-western suburb of Russell Lea, together with his wife Helen and daughter.
Dastyari is a member of the Halal Snack Pack Appreciation Society. although publicly claiming "[s]ome [halal] certifiers are nothing more than scammers."
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