Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Braddon, Tasmania, 2016. Resigned 10.5.2018. Elected to the House of Representatives for Braddon, Tasmania at by-election 2018, vice J Keay (resigned). Defeated at general elections, 2019.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Agriculture and Water Resources served from 15.9.2016 to 18.6.2017; Agriculture and Water Resources served as Deputy Chair from 19.6.2017 to 10.5.2018; Agriculture and Water Resources served from 10.9.2018 to 11.4.2019
• Joint Statutory: Public Works served from 15.9.2016 to 10.5.2018; Public Works served from 10.9.2018 to 11.4.2019

Parliamentary party positions

• Australian Labor Party. Served: 02.07.2016 to 10.05.2018, 28.07.2018 to 18.05.2019

Party positions

• Member of the Australian Labor Party from 2002.
• Delegate to the Australian Labor Party State Conference (Tas.), 2008.
• Delegate to the Australian Labor Party National Conference, 2009.
• Member of the Australian Labor Party Administrative Committee from 2009 to 2012.
• Vice-President of the Australian Labor Party Leven Branch (Tas.) from 2009 to 2011.
• President of the Australian Labor Party Leven Branch (Tas.) from 2011 to 2012.
• Vice-President of the Australian Labor Party Leven Branch (Tas.), 2013.
• President of the Australian Labor Party Leven Branch (Tas.) from 2014 to 2016.

Personal

• Born: 18.3.1975, Devonport, Australia
• Gender: Female
• Marital Status: De facto

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BEnvironmentalImpactAssessment (Murdoch University).
• PostGradDipEnvMgt (Murdoch University).
• BA (University of Tasmania).
• GradDipPsych (Monash University).
• Assistant Manager at Coles Supermarket from 1994 to 1996.
• Traffic clerk fpr Southern Cross TV from 1996 to 1999.
• Traffic clerk for WIN TV WA, from 1999 to 2002.
• Administrative assistant to the Hon. B Green MHA, Minister for Environment, Water and Primary Industries (Tas.) from 2002 to 2004.
• Personal Assistant to the Hon. B Green, MHA, Deputy Premier of Tasmania from 2004 to 2005.
• Personal Assistant at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, London (UK) from 2005 to 2006.
• Electorate Officer from 2007 to 2013.
• Adviser to the Hon. L Giddings, MHA, Premier of Tasmania from 2013 to 2014.
• Electorate Officer from 2014 to 2016.

Local Government service

• Alderman, Devonport City Council from 2009 to 2016.

Electorate

• Name: Braddon
• Location: north-west and west Tasmania; it includes the cities of Burnie and Devonport, and the towns of Currie, Latrobe, Penguin, Queenstown, Rosebery, Smithton, Somerset, Stanley, Strahan, Ulverstone, Waratah, Wynyard and Zeehan. It also includes King Island.
• Area: 20,826 Sq km
• Electors enrolled: 72,529 (at 2.7.2016)
• Industries: forestry, fishing, aquaculture, kelp harvesting, dairying, beef cattle production; vegetable, poppy and pyrethrum growing; vegetable processing, cheese manufacture, sawmilling and wood chipping; mining and tourism; and the Burnie and Devonport sea ports.
• Includes: