The Hon Melissa Parke MP – Parliament of Australia

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Member for Fremantle, Western Australia

Positions: Parliamentary Secretary for Mental Health; Parliamentary Secretary For Homelessness and Social Housing
Party: Australian Labor Party
Chamber: House of Representatives

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Contact details

Parliament Office

PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Telephone:: (02) 6277 2189
Fax:: (02) 6277 8430

Electorate Office

(Principal Office)

62 Wray Avenue
Fremantle, WA, 6160

Postal address
PO Box 1224
Fremantle, WA, 6959

Telephone:: (08) 9335 8555
Fax:: (08) 9336 1059

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Websites: Personal website; Party website; Parliamentary Secretary's website

Alternative URL

www.aph.gov.au/M_Parke_MP

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Electorate details

Fremantle, Western Australia

Biography

Party positions
Personal
Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament
Electorate

Parliamentary service

Elected to the House of Representatives for Fremantle, Western Australia, 2007 and 2010.

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Ministerial appointments

Parliamentary Secretary for Mental Health from 4.2.13.
Parliamentary Secretary for Homelessness and Social Housing from 4.2.13.

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Committee service

Joint Statutory: Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity from 18.2.08 (Chair from 26.8.08) to 6.2.13; Human Rights from 14.3.12 to 13.2.13.
Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 18.2.08 to 5.2.13; Treaties from 18.2.08 to 6.2.13.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Chile, Colombia and Argentina, August 2008.

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Party positions

Member, ALP from 1995.
Member and Chair, International Party Development Committee, ALP National Executive 2008-10.

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Personal

Born 11.8.1966, Bunbury, WA.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

BBus (Curtin), LLB (UNSW), LLM (Murdoch).
GradDipLegalPrac (Sydney University of Technology).
Solicitor, private law firms 1992-94.
Solicitor in Charge, Bunbury Community Legal Centre 1994-97.
Lecturer, School of Law, Murdoch University 1999.
Senior International Lawyer, United Nations (Kosovo, Gaza, Lebanon, Cyprus, New York) 1999-2007.

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Electorate

Description: inner metropolitan.
Location: south-west of Perth; it includes the city of Fremantle and the suburbs of Attadale, Atwell, Aubin Grove, Banjup, Beaconsfield, Beeliar, Bibra Lake, Bicton, Cockburn Central, Coogee, Coolbellup, Hamilton Hill, Hammond Park, Henderson, Hilton, Jandakot, Kardinya, Munster, North Lake, Palmyra, Samson, South Lake, Spearwood, Success, Wattleup, White Gum Valley, Willagee and Yangebup. It also includes Rottnest Island.

Area: 199 sq km (approx.).

Electors enrolled: 93 341 (at 21.8.10).

Industries: smallgoods, ship building, market gardens, brewing, hospitality, tourism and fishing.

State electorates: Fremantle includes the Western Australian Legislative Assembly electorates of Cockburn and Fremantle, and parts of Alfred Cove, Cottesloe, Jandakot and Willagee.

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