Ms Anna Burke MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Chisholm, Victoria, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010.

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Parliamentary positions

• Deputy Speaker from 12.2.08 to 28.9.10 and from 24.11.11 to 9.10.12.
• Member, Speaker's Panel from 30.9.10 to 24.11.11.
• Speaker of the House of Representatives from 9.10.12.

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Economics, Finance and Public Administration from 8.12.98 to 31.8.04; Privileges from 2.12.04 to 27.3.07 and from 29.3.07 to 17.10.07; Climate Change, Environment and the Arts from 25.10.10 to 7.2.12; Petitions from 25.10.10; Privileges and Members' Interests from 25.10.10; House from 9.10.12 (Chair from 9.10.12).
• Joint Statutory: Corporations and Financial Services from 2.12.04 to 17.10.07; Public Accounts and Audit from 2.12.04 to 12.9.05; Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings from 9.10.12.
• Joint Standing: National Capital and External Territories from 12.2.08 to 19.7.10.
• Joint Select: Parliamentary Budget Office from 23.11.10 to 23.3.11; Australia's Clean Energy Future Legislation from 14.9.11 to 7.10.11.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to New Zealand, August 2009.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to China and Hong Kong, November 2009.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Singapore, September 2000.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Denmark and Sweden, October 2005.

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Party positions

• Delegate, ALP State Conference (Vic) 1988-2011.
• Member, Federal Electorate Assembly Executive 1998-2006.
• Member, State Economics and Industry Committee (Vic) 1997-98.

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Personal

• Born 1.1.1966, Melbourne, Vic.
• Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BA (Hons) (Monash), MComm (Hons) (Melb).
• Industrial Officer, Victorian Roads 1988-93.
• Industrial Officer, Victorian University of Technology 1993-94.
• National Industrial Officer, Finance Sector Union 1994-98.

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Electorate

• Description: inner metropolitan.
  Location: eastern Melbourne; it includes the suburbs of Ashwood, Box Hill, Box Hill North, Box Hill South, Burwood, Chadstone, Huntingdale, Mont Albert, Mont Albert North, Mount Waverley, and parts of Clayton, Glen Waverley, Oakleigh and Surrey Hills.
  Area: 61 sq km (approx.).
  Electors enrolled: 86 275 (at 21.8.10).
  
  Industries: higher education, retail and service industries, metal, transport and electrical firms, warehouses.
  State electorates: Chisholm includes parts of the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorates of Box Hill, Burwood, Clayton, Mt Waverley and Oakleigh.
  

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