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Electorates
- MLC East Metropolitan Region, 22 March 2010–21 May 2013.Elected to the Thirty-eighth Parliament for the East Metropolitan Region on 22 March 2010 following a recount conducted by the Electoral Commissioner to fill the vacancy caused by the passing of the Hon Jock Ferguson. Retired 21 May 2013.
- Contested East Metropolitan Region 6 September 2008
Committees
- Member, Standing Committee on Uniform Legislation and Statutes Review, 22 April 2010–18 September 2012
- Member, Joint Standing Committee on the Commissioner for Children and Young People, 13 June 2012–14 December 2012
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Personal Information |
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Lawyer |
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Research assistant and speechwriter, Senator Ruth Coleman, 1980–1982
Admitted to practice as barrister and solicitor in WA, 1987
Legal Aid Commission, 1991–1993
Legal member, Social Security Appeals Tribunal, 1993–1999
Director, Social Security Appeals Tribunal, 1999–2001
Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, 2003–2006
Pro-bono and contract work, 2007–March 2010 |
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Winner, Law Society award for outstanding service in the community, 1997
Winner, Woman Lawyer of the Year Award, 2010 |
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Resident, Cambridge, 1983–1984, Los Angeles, 1985–1991, London, 2006–2007
Wrote with Jo-Anne Byrne and Susan Cullen:
- Women in Labour—32 personal accounts of Childbirth, Melbourne: Text Publishing, 1992
Wrote with Terri-Ann White:
- Abortion—Breaking the Silence, 1994 (published with the assistance of the Megan Sassi Foundation)
Member, Women’s Advisory Council to the Premier,1991–1993
Convenor/founding member, Women’s Legal Service of WA, 1992–1996
Member, Executive of Women Lawyers of WA 1994–2000, Vice President, 1997–2000
Member, Chief Justice David Malcolm’s Task Force on Gender Bias, reported June 1994
Member, Attorney's-General Administrative Review Taskforce, reported May 2002
Member, Board Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2003–2006
Member, Reproductive Technology Council of WA, 2002–2006
Member, Wanseal Family Services until February 2010
Member, Law Society of WA, vice-president, 1997–2000 |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 230.
Parliament of Western Australia, Former Members, Parliament of Western Australia website, accessed 21 May 2014. |
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