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A first-term Labor MP representing a key western Sydney marginal seat has bought a $12million oceanside mansion named 'La Palma' to add to his luxurious property portfolio.
Andrew Charlton, MP for the western Sydney seat of Parramatta, purchased the four-bedroom Palm Beach property which is located some 50km from the seat he represents.
It is Dr Charlton and his barrister wife Phoebe Arcus' second mansion purchase since he bought the $16.1million mansion Fintry at Bellevue Hill in Sydney's east, in November 2020.
Dr Charlton also owns a terrace in plush Woollahra, also in the city's east.
He lives in a $2million penthouse apartment in Parramatta, in his new parliamentary seat out west.
The A-list lifetyle of the Oxford University graduate and former United Nations operative is in contrast to almost all his Parramatta constituents.
He acknowledges their struggles in his Labor Party profile page, lamenting that 'it's getting harder for people to get ahead no matter how hard they work'.
One of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese 's Labor MPs - who represents a battler suburb - has purchased a $12million holiday home (he is pictured with his barrister wife Phoebe Arcus)
The purchase price of $12million in Palm Beach is 14.5 times Australia's median house price of $825,923 and is 8.6 times Sydney's already very dear mid-point house price of $1.396million
The four-bedroom house more than 50km outside his electorate of Parramatta in Sydney's west
New property purchases are meant to be declared on Parliament's pecuniary interest register but Daily Mail Australia understands Dr Charlton has not yet listed the Palm Beach property as it awaits settlement.
Settlements in New South Wales occur six weeks after contracts have been exchanged. 'Dr Charlton has and will continue to fully comply
