Nick Goiran

Nicolas Pierre Goiran (born 15 October 1977) is an Australian politician who has been a member for the South Metropolitan Region of the Western Australian Legislative Council (MLC), the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, since 22 May 2009.

A member of the Liberal Party, Australia's major centre-right political party, Goiran is a conservative Christian. He is pro-life, and opposes same-sex marriage, euthanasia and surrogacy. He has been outspoken on the issue of elder abuse, and while he supports vaccinations, he opposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Goiran has twice been accused of filibustering: he spoke for over 22 hours in total on a surrogacy bill in 2019, delaying it until the government relented and publicly released the $225,000 report it had commissioned into surrogacy; He proposed 357 amendments to a voluntary assisted dying bill and scrutinised every clause.

Goiran, alongside fellow MLC Peter Collier, is a Liberal Party power broker. After the March 2021 election, ABC News said that it was unrealistic to achieve preselection in the Perth metropolitan area for the Liberal Party without the support of Goiran or Collier. In August 2021, it was revealed that Goiran was part of a WhatsApp group called "The Clan", whose purpose was to discuss branch stacking and the preselection of candidates. Following the reveal of that group, Goiran was temporarily removed from the shadow cabinet and was subject to an internal Liberal Party investigation which was eventually dismissed due to a lack of evidence.