Shane Easson
| Shane Easson | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
22 March 1955 Sydney, NSW, Australia |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Relations | Michael Easson (twin brother) |
Shane Easson (born 22 March 1955) is a business consultant, former political staff member, and a former political candidate representing the Australian Labor Party.
Easson is a former Chief of Staff to former NSW Premier Barrie Unsworth. Easson currently advises firms on transport, and since 1984 has written and presented on behalf of the Labor Party its submissions for NSW state and federal redistributions. Easson has an MBA which he studied for at UNSW Sydney.
He was formerly Education and Research Office for the NSW Branch of the Labor Party (1984–86). Easson's younger twin brother is Michael Easson, formerly Secretary of the Labor Council of NSW (1989–94). In 2006 he completed the ALP's case for the NSW federal redistribution and also Queensland's federal redistribution - where many analysts correctly predicted the 2007 election would be won.
Easson put forward the Labor Party's proposals for the redistribution changes in John Howard's seat of Bennelong, with the belief in two key factors weakening the once-safe seat for the Liberal Party including electoral boundary changes and migrants entering the area. Due to the rapid influx of mostly Asian migrants he suggests that the growing ethnic population in Bennelong is "more susceptible to voting Labor than those they have replaced". He said that this factor would help Maxine McKew in her bid to win the Prime Minister's seat.
In an interview on the ABC TV's 7.30 Report, McKew stated that her reasons for running for the seat of Benelong were due to a report on compiled by Easson.
"There was an interesting analysis which had been done by a Shane Easson, NSW Labor Party figure, and that was doing the rounds within Labor Party circles. And Bob had a good look at that and it was very, very interesting, it showed that Bennelong was winnable."
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