Mrs Sophie Mirabella MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Indi, Victoria, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010.

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Employment and Workplace Relations from 20.3.02 to 31.8.04; Legal and Constitutional Affairs from 20.3.02 to 3.2.10; Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry from 14.2.07 to 17.10.07; Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government from 11.3.08 to 10.11.08; Family, Community, Housing and Youth from 10.11.08 to 30.11.09.
• House of Representatives Select: Recent Australian Bushfires from 27.3.03 to 5.11.03.
• Joint Statutory: Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund from 20.3.02 to 5.12.02.
• Joint Standing: Electoral Matters from 5.12.02 to 17.10.07; National Capital and External Territories from 1.12.04 to 17.10.07; Treaties from 1.12.04 to 14.2.07; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 11.3.08 to 10.3.09 and from 25.10.10; Parliamentary Library from 11.3.08 to 12.5.10.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Elected Delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention, February 1998.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Italy, Austria, France and Switzerland, October 2009.

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Parliamentary party positions

• Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Local Government from 6.12.07 to 22.9.08.
• Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 22.9.08. Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare, Women and Youth from 22.9.08 to 10.11.08; Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare, Status of Women and Youth from 10.11.08 to 8.12.09; Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research from 8.12.09 to 14.9.10; Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science from 14.9.10.

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Party positions

• Member, Liberal Party from 1987.
• President, Melbourne University Liberal Club.
• Vice-President, Australian Liberal Students' Federation.
• Member, various policy assembly committees, Liberal Party State Council (Vic).
• Member, Workplace Relations Task Force.

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Personal

• Born 27.10.1968, Melbourne, Vic.
• Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BComm, LLB, LLM (Melb).
• Solicitor and articled clerk 1995-97.
• Barrister 1998-2001.

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Electorate

• Description: rural.
  Location: north-eastern Victoria; it includes the centres of Beechworth, Benalla, Bright, Corryong, Euroa, Mansfield, Mt Beauty, Myrtleford, Rutherglen, Tallangatta, Violet Town, Wangaratta, Wodonga and Yackandandah.
  Area: 28 008 sq km (approx.).
  Electors enrolled: 92 956 (at 21.8.10).
  Industries: tourism, forestry, woodchipping, tobacco, viticulture, agriculture, timber processing and manufacturing.
  State electorates: Indi includes the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate of Benambra, and parts of Benalla and Murray Valley.

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