Daryl Melham
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Daryl Melham (born 27 November 1954), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing the Division of Banks, New South Wales. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at Sydney University. He was a barrister and solicitor and a public defender before entering politics. He has been Vice-President of the New South Wales Labor Party since 1999.
Melham was a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry from 1996-1998. He served as Shadow Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs but resigned in 1998 after a policy disagreement with the then Labor leader Kim Beazley. He returned to the Opposition Shadow Ministry in 2001 and he was Shadow Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Local Government from December 2003, resigning from the front bench soon after the Labor Party's election defeat in October 2004.
Daryl Melham has a good sense of humour and in 2004 on 'The Chaser Decides' programme quipped that Alan Jones was a "closet socialist".