The Hon Sussan Ley MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Farrer, New South Wales, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010.

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Ministerial appointments

• Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Family and Community Services (Children and Youth Affairs) from 26.10.04 to 27.1.06.
• Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry from 27.1.06 to 3.12.07.

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry from 20.3.02 to 31.8.04; Transport and Regional Services from 20.3.02 to 31.8.04; Family, Community, Housing and Youth from 11.3.08 to 10.11.08; Economics from 10.2.10 to 19.7.10.
• Joint Statutory: Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund from 5.12.02 to 31.8.04; Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity from 25.9.08 to 3.2.10; Australian Crime Commission from 25.9.08 to 3.2.10; Public Accounts and Audit from 3.2.10 to 19.7.10.
• Joint Standing: Electoral Matters from 20.3.02 to 5.12.02; National Broadband Network from 22.3.11.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Tonga and Fiji, December 2003.
• Official visits to Cambodia, March 2005; Israel, January 2006; Taiwan, August 2006.

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Parliamentary party positions

• Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 6.12.07. Shadow Minister for Housing from 6.12.07 to 22.9.08; Shadow Minister for the Status of Women from 6.12.07 to 22.9.08; Shadow Minister for Justice and Customs from 22.9.08 to 8.12.09; Shadow Assistant Treasurer from 8.12.09 to 14.9.10; Shadow Minister for Employment Participation from 14.9.10; Shadow Minister for Childcare and Early Childhood from 14.9.10.

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Party positions

• Member, Liberal Party Tallangatta Branch from 1994-2001.
• Member, Liberal Party (NSW) from 2001.

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Personal

• Born 14.12.1961, Kano, Nigeria.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• MEc (La Trobe), MTax (UNSW), MAcc (Charles Sturt).
• Air traffic controller 1983-85.
• Commercial pilot 1985-86.
• Shearers' cook 1986-88.
• Wool and beef farmer 1988-2001.
• Director of Technical Training, Australian Taxation Office 1995-2001.

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Electorate

• Description: rural.
  Location: far west and southern central New South Wales; it includes the cities of Albury and Broken Hill, and the shires of Balranald, Berrigan, Conargo, Corowa, Deniliquin, Greater Hume, Hay, Jerilderie, Lockhart, Murray, Wakool, Wentworth, Urana and Central Darling.
  
  Area: 247 097 sq km (approx.).
  
  Electors enrolled: 94 061 (at 21.8.10).
  
  Industries: large scale irrigation areas, dairy products, sheep, cattle, orchard and vine crops, rice and rice mills, wool, wheat and cereals, mining, tourism and agricultural service industries.
  
  State electorates: Farrer includes parts of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorates of Albury, Murray-Darling and Wagga Wagga.

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