Anne Urquhart

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Senator
Anne Urquhart
Senator for Tasmania
Assumed office
1 July 2011
Personal details
Born
Anne Elizabeth Polden

(1957-10-18) 18 October 1957 (age 66)
Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia
Political partyAustralian Labor Party
OccupationUnion official
Websiteanneurquhart.com.au

Anne Elizabeth Urquhart (née Polden; born 18 October 1957) is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served as a Senator for Tasmania since 2011. She was a senior official with the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) prior to entering politics.

Early life[edit]

Urquhart was born in Latrobe, Tasmania, the second of three children born to Tom and Betty Polden. After starting a family with her husband Graham, in July 1980 she began working as a process worker at the Edgell-Birds Eye factory in Ulverstone, which was later taken over by Simplot Australia.[1]

Urquhart joined the Food Preservers' Union of Australia, initially serving as a delegate and then from August 1990 as a full-time organiser. Her union was later merged into the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU),[1] and she served as state president from 1998 to 2004 and state secretary from 2004 to 2010.[2][3]

Politics[edit]

Urquhart served as a vice-president of the Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) from 2004 and as a delegate to the ALP National Conference.[2] She was elected to the Senate at the 2010 federal election,[4] and re-elected to a second term in 2016.[2] Her office is located in Devonport.[3]

In 2014 Urquhart was elected state president of the ALP, replacing Rebecca White.[5] She has served on a variety of committees during her time in the Senate. She has been the Labor Party's chief whip in the Senate since 2016, having previously served as a deputy whip from 2013 to 2016. After the ALP's victory at the 2022 federal election she became chief government whip.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Maiden speech". Hansard. Parliament of Australia. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Senator Anne Urquhart". Senators and Members of the Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Anne Urquhart: Senate Candidate for Tasmania". Australian Labor Party. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Senate Results – Tasmania – 2010 Federal Election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
  5. ^ "Anne Urquhart elected as the new Tasmanian Labor President". ABC News. 10 May 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2020.

External links[edit]

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