Paul Erickson is the national secretary of the federal Australian Labor Party.
Erickson worked for the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) in research and data.
[1] In 2014, he took up the position as assistant national secretary of the Australian Labor Party.
[1] It was there he became involved in student politics, and was elected President of the University of Melbourne in 2003.
He is the younger brother of three time Olympian and Commonwealth Games medalist, Chris Erickson.