Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Boothby, South Australia, 2016.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Tax and Revenue from 14.9.16.
• Joint Standing: Public Accounts and Audit from 14.9.16.

Party positions

• Member, Young Liberal Movement of Australia (SA Division), 2000-02.
• Branch Member, Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division), 2007-.
• Member, Rural and Regional Council, Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division), 2011-.
• Executive Member, Flinders University Liberal Club, 2012-15.
• Secretary and Treasurer, Flinders University Liberal Club, 2012-15.
• Member, Liberal Comen's Council, Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division), 2014-.
• Member, Liberal Women's Council, 70th Anniversary Committee, 2014-15.
• Delegate, State Council, Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division), 2014-.
• Chairman, Rural and Regional Council, Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division), 2014-16.
• SA Delegate, Federal Rural and Regional Council, 2014-16.
• Member, State Executive, Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division), 2014-16.
• Delegate, Federal Council, Liberal Party of Australia, 2014-16.

Personal

• Born 15.7.1978, Kingston South East, SA.

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• LLB & LP (Flinders).
• BA (Public Policy) (Hons I), (Flinders).
• Admitted to the High Court of Australia.
• Admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
• Admitted to the Supreme Court of South Australia.
• Solicitor, Baldock, Stacey & Niven, 2002.
• Policy Advisor, Director of Corporate Relations of Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 2004-07.
• Policy Advisor, Federal and State Liberal Party leaders and Shadow Ministers, 2008-12.
• Columnist, Fairfax Media Limited and News Limited, 2013-15.
• Research Fellow, Menzies Research Centre, 2015-.

Electorate

• Description: outer metropolitan.
• Location: southern Adelaide; it includes the suburbs of Aberfoyle Park, Belair, Blackwood, Brighton, Daw Park, Eden Hills, Flagstaff Hill, Marion, Mitcham, Panorama, St Marys and Seacliff.
• Area: 130 sq km.
• Electors enrolled: 107 325 (at 2.7.16).
• Industries: major retailing, army camp and military barracks, tertiary education, several hospitals and various small industries.
• State electorates: Boothby includes the South Australian House of Assembly electorate of Waite, and parts of Ashford, Bright, Davenport, Elder, Fisher, Heysen, Mitchell and Morphett.

Publications

• Gender and Politics (co-author with N Cater), Menzies Research Centre, 2015.