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Nicolette Boele (born 10 November 1970) is an Australian independent politician who has been the federal member of parliament (MP) for Bradfield since 2025.

Boele has a background in finance and renewable energy and has held executive roles in organisations such as the Responsible Investment Association Australasia, the Investor Group on Climate Change, and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. She contested the 2022 federal election for the Division of Bradfield as a community independent and successfully ran again in 2025.

The daughter of Dutch migrants, Boele attended Gordon East Primary School, Killara High School, and completed an undergraduate management degree at the University of Technology Sydney. She also holds a graduate certificate in environment and science from Oxford Brookes University.

Boele has held a range of roles across the renewable energy, environment, and sustainable finance sectors.

From 1996 to 1999, she was program leader for energy efficiency at the Sustainable Energy Development Authority of New South Wales, followed by her position as Sustainable Cities and Industries Campaign Coordinator at the Australian Conservation Foundation from 2000 to 2003. She then served as senior program and policy officer at the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water from 2003 to 2004, and later as director of strategic projects at the Climate Institute from 2006 to 2008. Between 2009 and 2015, Boele worked as principal for climate change (sustainability assurance and advice) at Banarra, and during that time also acted as chief of external affairs at the Clean Energy Finance Corporation from 2012 to 2013. She subsequently managed the Low Carbon Investment Registry at the Investor Group on Climate Change in 2014, and from 2015 to 2021 served as executive manager at Responsible Investment Association Australasia. Boele was an advisory board member at the Good Car Company (2021–2024) and an expert adviser on electrification at the Smart Energy Council (2022–2023).

In the 2022 Australian federal election, Boele contested the Division of Bradfield as a community independent candidate. She officially launched her campaign on 30 January 2022. She positioned herself as an advocate for climate action, political integrity and an affordable economy.

Following the election, she achieved a significant swing of 12.3 percentage points against the incumbent Liberal MP, Paul Fletcher, reducing his margin to 4.2 percentage points, the largest first preference swing against a sitting Liberal member in the 2022 election. Following this, Boele established a “shadow representative’s office” to continue her advocacy within the community and announced she would run again in 2025.