Michael Holland (politician)

He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was elected at the 2022 Bega state by-election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

[1] Holland is an obstetrician and gynaecologist who resigned from the Southern NSW Local Health District over concerns around maternity practices at Moruya Hospital.

[2] In 2021 he was preselected to run for the Labor Party in the 2022 Bega state by-election, held following the resignation of Liberal MP Andrew Constance.

[6] He was re-elected in the 2023 NSW general election with a further swing of 17.3% On 11 May 2023, while Trish Doyle was giving a speech in the Legislative Assembly, a person with orthostatic intolerance collapsed in the public galleries.

Holland jumped over from the chamber to the public galleries to assist the man and check his vitals, then put him in the recovering position and called paramedics.