Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Gilmore, New South Wales, 2013 and 2016.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Education and Employment from 4.12.13 to 9.5.16; Health from 4.12.13 to 2.2.16; Indigenous Affairs from 14.9.16 (Chair from 25.1.18); supplementary member Infrastructure, Transport and Cities from 30.5.17.
• Joint Standing: Corporations and Financial Services from 11.2.15 to 2.2.16; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 14.9.16; National Disability Insurance Scheme from 14.9.16.
• Joint Select: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse from 5.2.18.

Party positions

• Member, Liberal Party from 2006.
• Vice-President, State Electoral Council 2009-11.
• Branch Delegate, Liberal Party Women's Council 2010-12.
• Branch Treasurer 2010-12.

Personal

• Born 16.9.1955, Milton, NSW.

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BSc (ANU), DipEd (CCAE), MEd (CSU).
• Certificate IV in Visual Arts.
• Waitress, cook, cleaner 1974-77.
• High school science teacher 1979-88.
• Company director, family manufacturing business 1988-2003 and 2004-05.
• Volunteer teacher, India 2003.
• Community art teacher 2006.
• Electorate officer 2007-12.
• Tutor, University of Wollongong 2011.

Local government service

• Councillor, Kiama Municipal Council 1995-99.

Electorate

• Description: rural.
• Location: south-eastern New South Wales; it includes the towns and suburbs of Bawley Point, Batemans Bay, Berry, Callala Bay, Cunjurong, Currarong, Fishermans Paradise, Gerroa, Kiama, Malua Bay, Mogo, Moruya, Nowra, Sussex Inlet, Tomerong, Tuross Head, and Ulladulla.
• Area: 6 342 sq km.
• Electors enrolled: 115 878 (at 2.7.16).
• Industries: tourism, timber, dairy and beef cattle, paper mill, brickworks, light engineering, dairy products, steel fabrication and fishing.