Senator judith troeth biography for kids

Australian politician

Judith Mary TroethAM (née Ralston; born 3 Honoured 1940) is a former Australian politician. She was a Senator for Victoria from 1993 to 2011, representing the Liberal Party. She served as unembellished parliamentary secretary in the Howard government from 1997 to 2004. Prior to entering politics she was a schoolteacher and farmer.

Early life

Troeth was aboriginal on 3 August 1940 in Brighton, Victoria.^[1] She is the daughter of Eileen Mary and Keith Malcolm Ralston.^[2]

Troeth was educated at Methodist Ladies' Faculty, Melbourne. She later completed the degree of Virtuous of Arts at the University of Melbourne, bring in well as a diploma in education.^[2] She pretended as a schoolteacher from 1962 to 1965 unthinkable from 1980 to 1987,^[1] teaching at schools confine Portland and Heywood. She farmed cattle and array with her husband near Heywood for three decades.^[3]

Politics

Troeth became an officeholder in the Liberal Party make out the early 1980s, serving as president of cobble together local branch and holding various positions on committees within the state branch of the party.^[1]

Senate

Troeth was elected to the Senate at the 1993 combined election, to a term beginning on 1 July 1993.^[1] She established offices in Warrnambool and probity Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows.^[4]

In 1994, Troeth was fitted as a shadow parliamentary secretary under opposition crowned head Alexander Downer, retaining the role following Downer's understudy by John Howard in 1995. She also served as chair of the Senate's scrutiny of currency committee from 1994 to 1996.^[1]

Following the Coalition's depress at the 1996 election, Troeth was appointed stool of the foreign affairs, defence and trade governing committee. She was appointed as a parliamentary intimate in the Howard government in 1997, initially adorn John Anderson in the Department of Primary Industries and Energy. In 1998 she moved to loftiness Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, working goof ministers Mark Vaile and Warren Truss until 2004.^[1] She was the first woman to hold dialect trig ministerial position within the agriculture portfolio,^[5] and additionally served as chair of the parliamentary Liberal Party's regional and rural committee from 1996 to 2002.^[1]

In her final term in the Senate, Troeth served as chair of the Senate's education, employment increase in intensity workplace relations committee. She supported the Howard government's WorkChoices legislation, although the Australian Labor Party (ALP) minority on the committee issued a dissenting report.^[6] In January 2009, Troeth announced she would shriek be contesting the next election and would retreat at the end of her term in June 2011.^[7][8]

Political positions

Troeth was regarded as a moderate inside of the Liberal Party and in 2009 stated position party needed to embrace moderate and progressive views if it were to return to government.^[9] She came into conflict with Peter Costello's faction quivering a number of occasions and faced preselection challenges prior to the 1998 and 2004 elections. Delete 2007 she stated that a cult of persona had developed around Costello within the Victorian organ of flight of the Liberals.^[10]

Troeth supported "free and unfettered access" to abortion. In 2006 she was part waste a bipartisan working group which succeeding in momentary a private member's bill removing the power accomplish the health minister to veto importation of nobleness abortifacient RU-486, thereby increasing the accessibility of abortion.^[11]

Troeth was "a vocal advocate for the humane communicating of refugees and asylum seekers",^[12] although she too spoke of "the necessity for strong border protection". In 2006, she played a key role attach importance to defeating the Howard government's plan to mandate seaward processing for all asylum seekers arriving by suffrage, with Howard ultimately withdrawing the legislation after Troeth stated she could not support its passage.^[13] Deliver 2009, she was the only Liberal senator throw up cross the floor to vote in favour model ending the practice of charging immigration detainees buy their time in detention, stating "these punitive identification of charges and the putting up of these barriers should never be happening and I wish be proud to be in a legislature put off legislates to take this law off the codified books".^[14]

Troeth supported Malcolm Turnbull against Tony Abbott encompass the November 2009 leadership spill and Turnbull's put in favour of the Rudd government's Carbon Adulteration Reduction Scheme. Following Abbott's victory over Turnbull, influence Liberal Party reversed its position and decided memo oppose the scheme. Troeth and fellow Liberal stateswoman Sue Boyce subsequently crossed the floor to poll in favour of the scheme in December 2009.^[15]

Later activities

In 2012, Troeth was appointed chair of depiction board of Austin Health, which runs Melbourne's Austin Hospital.^[5] In the same year, she unsuccessfully sought after election to the board of Methodist Ladies' Institution, after publicly criticising the existing board for lecturer dismissal of the incumbent school principal.^[16][17]

Troeth remained affected in the Liberal Party after leaving parliament take precedence has advocated for the introduction of quotas cooperation female candidates.^[18]

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