Amanda Cohn

Amanda Cohn (born 5 December 1989) is an Australian politician and former rural general practitioner (GP). She was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council on 25 March 2023 as a member of The Greens NSW. Prior to entering state politics, she was a Councillor and Deputy Mayor at Albury City Council.

Career Prior to entering Parliament, Cohn was a GP and frontline emergency services volunteer.

Political career Cohn was first nominated as the Greens candidate for the division of Farrer in the House of Representatives at the 2016 federal election. In 2016, Cohn was elected to Albury City Council, making history as both the youngest female and first Greens candidate to be elected to the council. Subsequently, she was appointed Deputy Mayor by the council, and after one term retired from local government in 2021. In 2022, she was a candidate for the Senate at the 2022 federal election, on a ticket which elected David Shoebridge.

Cohn was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council on the Greens ticket at the 2023 New South Wales state election after campaigning on rural and regional healthcare reform, abortion services, and LGBTQIA+ rights. She is currently responsible for the portfolios of Health (including Mental Health), LGBTQIA+, Youth, Local Government, Emergency Services, Air Quality, Waste, Sport & Recreation, Central West NSW, Western NSW, and the Riverina Murray region.

Personal life Cohn is a runner, cyclist, and bushwalker, and lives in Albury-Wodonga. In 2022, Cohn completed an Ironman distance triathlon.

In her opening speech to parliament, she identified that her paternal grandparents were Jewish German refugees who fled the holocaust.

Cohn is openly bisexual and lives with her partner Geoff in Albury.