The Hon Dr Sharman Stone MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Murray, Victoria, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010.

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Ministerial appointments

• Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage from 21.10.98 to 26.10.04.
• Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance and Administration from 26.10.04 to 27.1.06.
• Minister for Workforce Participation from 27.1.06 to 3.12.07.

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Primary Industries, Resources and Rural and Regional Affairs from 29.5.96 to 31.8.98; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from 4.6.97 to 31.8.98, from 11.3.08 to 10.11.08 and from 25.10.10; Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government from 17.3.08 to 10.11.08; Education and Training from 3.2.10 to 19.7.10; Social Policy and Legal Affairs from 25.10.10; Regional Australia from 16.11.10 to 25.8.11.
• Joint Statutory: Public Accounts from 29.5.96 to 1.1.98; Public Accounts and Audit from 1.1.98 to 31.8.98.
• Joint Standing: Migration from 10.11.08 to 3.2.10; Foreign, Affairs, Defence and Trade from 25.10.10; Treaties from 25.10.10.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Thailand, Vietnam and Japan 1996-97.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to New Zealand, June 1997.
• Represented Australia at the South Pacific Region Environment Ministerial Forum, Guam, October 2000; Samoa, April 2001 and Marshall Islands, July 2002.
• Head, Delegation to Ministerial Conference on Transport and Environment, Japan, January 2002.
• Represented Australia at the 21st Asian Parliamentarians Meeting on Population and Development, Cambodia, April 2005.
• Official visits to Thailand and Cambodia, April-May 2005; USA, Canada and UK, November 2005.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Indonesia and Singapore, October-November 2008.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to New Zealand, March 2011.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Ethiopia, April 2011.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Timor-Leste and Indonesia, November 2011.

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Parliamentary party positions

• Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 6.12.07 to 14.9.10. Shadow Minister for the Environment, Heritage, the Arts and Indigenous Affairs from 6.12.07 to 22.9.08; Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship from 22.9.08 to 8.12.09; Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare from 8.12.09 to 14.9.10; Shadow Minister for the Status of Women from 8.12.09 to 14.9.10.

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Party positions

• President, Burwood Liberal Party Women's Section and member of various policy committees.

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Personal

• Born 23.4.1951, Pyramid Hill, Vic.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BA(Hons), PhD (Monash), MA (La Trobe), GradDipTertEd (Hawthorn CAE).
• Member, Governing Council, La Trobe University of Northern Victoria 1987-93; Governing Council, La Trobe University 1991-93.
• Manager, International Development, University of Melbourne 1994-95.

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Electorate

• State electorates: Murray includes the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate of Shepparton, and parts of Benalla, Bendigo East, Bendigo West, Murray Valley, Rodney and Swan Hill.
  Description: rural.
  Location: Northern Victoria; it includes the centres of Boort, Bridgewater, Cobram, Echuca, Kyabram, Mooroopna, Murchison, Nathalia, Numurkah, Rochester, Rushworth, Shepparton, Tatura, Wedderburn and Yarrawonga.
  Area: 16 229 sq km (approx.).
  Electors enrolled: 90 218 (at 21.8.10).
  Industries: dairy, fruit, sheep, wheat, beef, processing industries, transport.

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