Dan Bull (politician)

Dan Bull is an Australian politician who has been the member for Maylands in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the March 2025 state election. A member of the Labor Party, he was a councillor for the City of Bayswater from 2015 to 2025 and the mayor of Bayswater from 2017 to 2021.

Dan Bull
Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 March 2025
Preceded by	Lisa Baker
Constituency	Maylands
Mayor of Bayswater
In office October 2017 – October 2021
Preceded by	Barry McKenna
Succeeded by	Filomena Piffaretti
City of Bayswater Councillor
In office October 2015 – March 2025
Constituency	West Ward
Personal details
Political party	Labor
Alma mater	University of Western Australia
Occupation	Solicitor
Website	danbull.org.au

Early life

Bull attended Hale School and the University of Western Australia, graduating with a double degree in law and arts. He was admitted to the bar in 2003 and has worked as a solicitor in Perth and Sydney.^[1]

Bull was a keyboardist for the band Eskimo Joe in 2004 and 2005, and was a member of The Sleepy Jackson and End of Fashion.^[2] He has also released three solo EPs.^[3] He gave up being a musician after the birth of his two children.^[2]

Political career

Bull first ran for the City of Bayswater council in 2015. He said he was interested in local politics because he wanted better road safety, accountability, trees and nature playgrounds.^[2][4] He was elected as a councillor for the west ward in October that year.^[5][6]

Bull is a member of the Labor Party's Left faction and is aligned with the United Workers Union.^[7][8] He was elected mayor by the Bayswater council unopposed after the October 2017 local government election, succeeding Barry McKenna.^[9][10] He was re-elected following the October 2019 local government election.^[11][12] Following the October 2021 local government election, Bull was unexpectedly defeated as mayor by Labor Right member Filomena Piffaretti, who received the support of independent and Liberal-aligned councillors.^[13][7]

Following Labor MP Lisa Baker's announcement that she would not contest the 2025 state election,^[14] Bull was preselected to be the Labor Party's candidate to replace Baker in the electoral district of Maylands.^[15][16][7] In March 2025, he won Maylands with about a 71 percent two-party-preferred vote.^[17][18][19]

Personal life

In 2023, Bull abseiled down Central Park for charity group Cahoots.^[20]