Zhi Soon
House of Representatives · Australian Labor Party · Labor Left
Biography
Xian Zhi Soon (Chinese: 孙先志; born 1985) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Banks for the Australian Labor Party. At the 2025 Australian federal election, he defeated the sitting member David Coleman, who had held the seat since 2013. Soon first contested the seat in the 2022 federal election, losing to Coleman. Soon was awarded the Young Australian of the Year in the ACT in 2008, and worked as a diplomat in Afghanistan. Soon also worked in the Behavioural Insights Team, a UK-based social purpose corporation known unofficially as the "Nudge Unit", was the youngest ever appointee to the New South Wales Board of…
Adapted and shortened from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Place of birth
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- APH identifier
- 298618
Political connections
First-degree, sourced relationships in the current snapshot.
- Karen Grogan · Shared faction: Labor LeftWikipedia (opens in a new tab)
- Zaneta Mascarenhas · Shared faction: Labor LeftWikipedia (opens in a new tab)
- Carina Garland · Shared faction: Labor LeftWikipedia (opens in a new tab)
- Louise Miller-Frost · Shared faction: Labor LeftWikipedia (opens in a new tab)
- Varun Ghosh · Shared party: Australian Labor PartyParliament of Australia (opens in a new tab)
- Rowan Holzberger · Shared party: Australian Labor PartyParliament of Australia (opens in a new tab)
- Basem Abdo · Shared party: Australian Labor PartyParliament of Australia (opens in a new tab)
- Madonna Jarrett · Shared party: Australian Labor PartyParliament of Australia (opens in a new tab)
Parliamentary and professional history
Current and senior roles
No senior parliamentary role is listed.
Committee service
No committee service is listed.
Qualifications
- Date not recordedLLB
- Date not recordedGradDipLegPrac
- Date not recordedBA
Occupations
- Date not recordedSenior Executive
- Date not recordedPublic Policy and Behavioural Economics Leader
- Date not recordedManagement Consultant
- Date not recordedLawyer
- Date not recordedEducation Policy Leader
- Date not recordedAustralian Diplomat
Current parliamentary service
- 2025 — PresentElected to the House of Representatives for Banks, New South Wales, 2025.Source