Vincent Alexander Catania (born 1977) is an Australia

Australia

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n politician. He sat in the Western Australian Legislative Council

Western Australian Legislative Council

The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state...

 from 2005 to 2008 and has been a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly

Western Australian Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth....

 since 2008. He represented the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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 until defecting to the WA Nationals

National Party of Western Australia

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 on 20 July 2009, citing his belief that Labor had become too "city-centric".

Catania was first elected to the Legislative Council at the 2005 state election

Western Australian state election, 2005

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 26 February 2005 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council...

, to represent the Mining and Pastoral

Electoral region of Mining and Pastoral

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 region. He switched to run for the Legislative Assembly at the 2008 state election

Western Australian state election, 2008

A general election was held in the state of Western Australia on Saturday 6 September 2008 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council...

 following the retirement of Speaker Fred Riebeling

Fred Riebeling

Fredrick Riebeling is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2008.Riebeling was born in Bridgetown...

, and was duly elected to the seat of North West.

Catania was born in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, Western Australia

Western Australia

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, and is the son of former state Labor politician and current Mayor of the Town of Vincent, Nick Catania

Nick Catania

Nicholas Mark "Nick" Catania is an Australian politician. Catania served as Mayor of the City of Vincent in inner-city Perth, Western Australia between 2001 and 2011...

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