Zoe Daniel

Zoe Daniel (born 28 November 1972) is an Australian former journalist and former politician who became the first independent member of parliament for the Division of Goldstein in 2022. She lost the seat at the 2025 election. Daniel was one of a number of community independents, dubbed "teal independents" by the media, who were elected in the 2022 Australian federal election and funded primarily by crowdfunding enterprise, Climate 200. Prior to entering Parliament, Daniel was a journalist for the taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from 1993 until 2020. She was an ABC foreign correspondent in three different postings, including Southeast Asia, the USA and Africa. Her most recent posting was as the ABC’s U.S. bureau chief between 2015 and 2019, where she led the ABC's coverage of the presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.