Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Higgins, Victoria at by-election 2009, vice the Hon. P Costello (resigned). Re-elected 2010, 2013 and 2016. Retired prior to general elections 2019.

Ministerial appointments

• Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer from 23.12.2014 to 21.9.2015.
• Minister for Small Business from 21.9.2015 to 19.7.2016.
• Assistant Treasurer from 21.9.2015 to 19.7.2016.
• Cabinet Minister from 21.9.2015 to 29.5.2019.
• Minister for Revenue and Financial Services from 19.7.2016 to 28.8.2018.
• Minister for Women from 20.12.2017 to 29.5.2019.
• Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service from 20.12.2017 to 28.8.2018.
• Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations from 28.8.2018 to 29.5.2019.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Legal and Constitutional Affairs served from 10.2.2010 to 19.7.2010; Employment and Workplace Relations served from 10.2.2010 to 19.7.2010; Economics served from 25.10.2010 to 11.9.2011; Economics served as Deputy Chair from 12.9.2011 to 13.2.2012; Economics served from 14.2.2012 to 3.12.2013; Economics served as Chair from 4.12.2013 to 12.2.2015; Economics served from 19.10.2015 to 9.5.2016
• Joint Select: Parliamentary Budget Office served from 23.11.2010 to 23.3.2011

Parliamentary party positions

• Liberal Party of Australia. Served: 05.12.2009 to 11.04.2019

Party positions

• Member of the Liberal Party Administrative Committee (Vic.), 2003.
• Chairman of the Liberal Party Training Programs (Vic.), 2003.
• Member of the Liberal Party Constitutional Committee (Vic.) from 2007 to 2009.

Other positions

• Convener of the Australia-Americas Network.
• Co-Founder and Chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group of Women in Science, Maths and Engineering from 2012.
• Chairman of the Australia-United States Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2014.

Personal

• Born: 31.3.1977, Box Hill, Australia
• Gender: Female
• Marital Status: Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BA (University of Melbourne).
• LLB(Hons) (University of Melbourne).
• Lawyer at Freehills from 2001 to 2004.
• Adviser to the Treasurer, the Hon. P Costello, MP from 2004 to 2005.
• Senior Adviser to the Treasurer, the Hon. P Costello, MP from 2005 to 2007.
• Executive at the National Australia Bank from 2007 to 2009.

Electorate

• Name: Higgins
• Location: south-eastern Melbourne; it includes the suburbs of Armadale, Ashburton, Kooyong, Malvern, Malvern East, Prahran and Toorak, and parts of Carnegie, Glen Iris, Hughesdale, Murrumbeena, South Yarra and Windsor.
• Area: 40 Sq km
• Electors enrolled: 104,678 (at 2.7.2016)
• Industries: mainly residential, with retail and commercial interests in a number of suburbs.
• Includes:

Publications

• Independent Review of the Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017 and Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017, Department of Finance, Forrest, ACT: 2021.