Rachel Westaway (née Eamsophana) is an Australian politician serving as the member for Prahran in the Victorian Legislative Assembly since winning the 2025 Prahran state by-election. She is a member of the Victorian Liberal Party.

Under her previous name Rachel Creek, she was a candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Council in the 2003 New South Wales state election.^[1] She was in 10th place on the party list and was not elected.^[2]

Westaway served for many years as a senior member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, first appointed in 2003 to the MRT and RRT, until it, the AAT was abolished in October 2024. She is a former Assistant Freedom of Information Commissioner for Victoria. After an initial career spanning senior executive marketing positions at Cadbury, The Age Newspaper, SBS and The National Trust, she was appointed to the AAT and RRT. She was also the former Executive Director of Country Press NSW spanning 7 years. ^[3]

In February 2025, Westaway was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly at the 2025 Prahran state by-election which was held following the resignation of Sam Hibbins. Her campaign was based on addressing the decline in the electorate after a decade of Greens representation, and including addressing "law-and-order" issues according to the ABC.^[4]

Westaway has lived in South Yarra for 20 years. She was born, raised and educated in Melbourne and is of Thai-Chinese descent.^[5] She was a former President of the Thai Australian Chamber.^{[6][better source needed]}

She is married to husband Simon Westaway and they have three teenage children.^[3]