Paul Edbrooke

Paul Andrew Edbrooke (born 5 December 1978) is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2014, representing the Legislative Assembly seat of Frankston.^[1]

He was raised in the Latrobe Valley, with both parents highly active in the Salvation Army, his father, a Corps Seargeant Major. He moved to Frankston in 2001.

Edbrooke is a former teacher and Leading firefighter with the Country Fire Authority (CFA), based at Frankston fire station.

Edbrooke mostly taught in Special Developmental Schools.

Over fourteen years as a career firefighter, Edbrooke worked at some of the states largest and most complex fires, including the Dandenong Dunlopillo factory fire, Black Saturday fires and the Morwell coal mine fire, where it is recorded that he was almost killed during a nightshift. The platoon he worked on at Frankston Fire Station was once known as 'deadly D shift' due to the amount of trauma they attended.

In 2009, he was awarded a Chief Officers commendation for rescuing a victim from a house fire and resuscitating her with his platoon. Two persons were rescued and one firefighter hospitalised. (Frankston leader newspaper). In 2013 he was awarded a CFA service award. In 2014 he was awarded the National Service Medal (Black Saturday) ^[2]Up until his election he was a United Firefighter's Union Shop Steward.

It is rumoured that he refused to do a deal with the incumbent, Geoff Shaw, who offered to give him his share of the primary vote. Instead Shaw struck a deal with the Liberal candidate who received Shaw's 12.9% of the primary vote.

Edbrooke chaired the successful $63 million Frankston Transit Precinct Taskforce and currently chairs the same projects implementation governance board which includes CEO's from South East Water, Peninsula Health, Chisholm TAFE and Monash University. He has successfully advocated for over $170 million of investment in Frankston in the first year of his first term, which he stated is 'more confidence, opportunity and investment injected into Frankston in one year than in the previous decades combined.........with this catalyst we will make Frankston the envy of other seaside cities'.

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