Emily Suvaal

The Honourable
Emily Suvaal
MLC
The Honourable Emily Suvaal MLC
	Suvaal in 2025
Parliamentary Secretary for Trade and Small Business
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 17 March 2025
Premier	Chris Minns
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 25 March 2023
Personal details
Party	NSW Labor
Spouse	Jay
Children	2
Occupation	Registered Nurse

Emily Suvaal is an Australian politician and former nurse and trade unionist. She was elected as a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council at the 2023 state election.

Career

Suvaal is a registered nurse, and in 2021 indicated her intention to run for Labor preselection in the division of Hunter with the impending retirement of Joel Fitzgibbon.^[1] Olympic shooter Daniel Repacholi was ultimately preselected.^[2] In 2022, Suvaal was endorsed as a NSW Labor candidate for the Legislative Council at the 2023 state election.^[3]^[4]

Suvaal was sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary for Trade and Small Business on 17 March 2025.^[5]

Suvaal resides in Cessnock with her husband Jay.

Suvaal is passionate about improving community mental health services after her own experience of anorexia from teenage years to young adulthood.^[6]

↑ Martin, Sarah (20 September 2021). "Labor candidate's social media taunt aimed at coalmining opponents stokes preselection anger". Guardian Australia. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
↑ Parris, Michael (14 October 2021). "Climate, leadership, jobs: Albo lays out Labor's battle plan". The Newcastle Herald. Australian Community Media. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
↑ Smith, Alexandra (20 September 2022). "NSW Labor frontbencher delivers extraordinary attack on one of her own". The Sydney Morning Herald. Nine Entertainment. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
↑ "Candidates - Legislative Council Group D: LABOR". Elections NSW. New South Wales Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
↑ The Premier; Minns, Chris (17 March 2025). "Changes to the Minns Government Ministry". nsw.gov.au (Press release). Premier's Department. Archived from the original on 17 March 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
↑ Rose, Tamsin (16 July 2023). "'Nobody knew': how Emily Suvaal came to recount her fight with anorexia in NSW's parliament". The Guardian.

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