Guy Matheson was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...

 from 1988 until 1991. He was a member of the Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

.

Matheson obtained a certificate in commercial accountancy at Penrith TAFE

Western Sydney Institute of TAFE

TAFE NSW - Western Sydney Institute is a large complex decentralised educational institute and is one of the largest Institutes of TAFE NSW. The Institute annually enrolls more than 90,000 students and offers around 1,000 vocational education courses....

 and worked in the Penrith branch of the National Australia Bank

National Australia Bank

National Australia Bank is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in terms of market capitalisation and customers. NAB is ranked 17th largest bank in the world measured by market capitalisation...

. He joined the Liberal party at age 18.

Prior to the 1988 election

New South Wales state election, 1988

Elections to the 49th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday 19 March 1988. All seats in the Legislative Assembly and half the seats in the Legislative Council were up for election...

, Matheson won Liberal pre-selection for the seat of Penrith

Electoral district of Penrith

Penrith is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It has been represented by Stuart Ayres of the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2010 by-election...

. The seat was considered unwinnable for the Liberal party and Matheson's campaign was low key and based on the slogan "Who is this Guy?". However the election was a landslide victory for the Liberal party and Matheson defeated the previous member Peter Anderson

Peter Anderson (politician)

Peter Thomas Anderson , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Nepean between 1978 and 1981, Penrith between 1981 and 1988, and Liverpool between 1989 and 1995 for the Australian Labor Party...

 with a two party preferred swing of greater than 10%.

A very strong recovery in the ALP vote at the 1991 election

New South Wales state election, 1991

Elections to the 50th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday 25 May 1991. All seats in the Legislative Assembly and half the seats in the Legislative Council were up for election...

 resulted in Matheson losing this traditionally safe Labor seat to the ALP's Faye Lo Po'

Faye Lo Po'

Faye Lo Po is a former Australian politician, serving as member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Penrith between 1993 and 2003.-Political career:...

with a swing of more than 7%. Matheson has not nominated for public office since 1991.