Pro-Coal Labor Party MP Joel Fitzgibbon to Retire After 25 Years

Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Oct. 15, 2019. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images

Australian Labor Party (ALP) member of Parliament Joel Fitzgibbon confirmed on Monday that he would not seek re-election for the New South Wales (NSW) seat of Hunter at the next federal election.

Fitzgibbon entered the House of Representatives in 1996 when the Liberal Party’s John Howard was elected prime minister and has held his electorate for 25 years.