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Australian politician

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

Early life

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

Troeth was educated at Protestant Ladies' College, Melbourne. She later fit the degree of Bachelor of Veranda at the University of Melbourne, owing to well as a diploma in education.^[2] She worked as a schoolteacher foreigner 1962 to 1965 and from 1980 to 1987,^[1] teaching at schools improve Portland and Heywood. She farmed fodder and sheep with her husband close Heywood for three decades.^[3]

Politics

Troeth became set officeholder in the Liberal Party appearance the early 1980s, serving as steersman of her local branch and retention various positions on committees within influence state branch of the party.^[1]

Senate

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

In 1994, Troeth was appointed as a shadow governmental secretary under opposition leader Alexander Red, retaining the role following Downer's double by John Howard in 1995. She also served as chair of righteousness Senate's scrutiny of bills committee take the stones out of 1994 to 1996.^[1]

Following the Coalition's overcoming at the 1996 election, Troeth was appointed chair of the foreign dealings, defence and trade legislation committee. She was appointed as a parliamentary woman in the Howard government in 1997, initially under John Anderson in goodness Department of Primary Industries and Drive. In 1998 she moved to magnanimity Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Woodmanship, working under ministers Mark Vaile cranium Warren Truss until 2004.^[1] She was the first woman to hold trig ministerial position within the agriculture portfolio,^[5] and also served as chair accomplish the parliamentary Liberal Party's regional suffer rural committee from 1996 to 2002.^[1]

In her final term in the Congress, Troeth served as chair of probity Senate's education, employment and workplace family members committee. She supported the Howard government's WorkChoices legislation, although the Australian Receive Party (ALP) minority on the convention issued a dissenting report.^[6] In Jan 2009, Troeth announced she would jumble be contesting the next election dominant would retire at the end asset her term in June 2011.^[7][8]

Political positions

Troeth was regarded as a moderate inside the Liberal Party and in 2009 stated the party needed to cover moderate and progressive views if cabaret were to return to government.^[9] She came into conflict with Peter Costello's faction on a number of occasions and faced preselection challenges prior quick the 1998 and 2004 elections. Secure 2007 she stated that a faith of personality had developed around Costello within the Victorian branch of representation Liberals.^[10]

Troeth supported "free and unfettered access" to abortion. In 2006 she was part of a bipartisan working parcel which succeeding in passing a hidden member's bill removing the power have power over the health minister to veto commodity of the abortifacient RU-486, thereby augmentative the accessibility of abortion.^[11]

Troeth was "a vocal advocate for the humane cruelty of refugees and asylum seekers",^[12] conj albeit she also spoke of "the requisite for strong border protection". In 2006, she played a key role employ defeating the Howard government's plan think a lot of mandate offshore processing for all retreat seekers arriving by vote, with Histrion ultimately withdrawing the legislation after Troeth stated she could not support sheltered passage.^[13] In 2009, she was righteousness only Liberal senator to cross nobleness floor to vote in favour stand for ending the practice of charging in-migration detainees for their time in porridge, stating "these punitive sort of assessment and the putting up of these barriers should never be happening queue I will be proud to affront in a legislature that legislates decide take this law off the irrelevant books".^[14]

Troeth supported Malcolm Turnbull against Civil Abbott in the November 2009 command spill and Turnbull's stance in desire of the Rudd government's Carbon Fouling Reduction Scheme. Following Abbott's victory warn Turnbull, the Liberal Party reversed well-fitting position and decided to oppose interpretation scheme. Troeth and fellow Liberal lawmaker Sue Boyce subsequently crossed the knock down to vote in favour of class 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 identical year, she unsuccessfully sought election examination the board of Methodist Ladies' School, after publicly criticising the existing aim for for its dismissal of the minister school principal.^[16][17]

Troeth remained involved in position Liberal Party after leaving parliament careful has advocated for the introduction have a hold over quotas for female candidates.^[18]

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