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Nicola Roxon

Australian politician

Nicola Louise Roxon (born 1 April ) is an Australian former politician. After politics, she has worked as a company director and academic.

Roxon represented the lower house seat of Gellibrand in Victoria for the Australian Labor Party; from the federal election until her retirement in August Between and , Roxon was the first female Attorney-General of Australia.

Post politics, Roxon was appointed an adjunct professor at Victoria University, board chair at VicHealth, and at HESTA.[1]

Early and personal life

Roxon was born in Sydney, New South Wales. She is the second of three daughters and the niece of the late Australian journalist and Sydney Push member Lillian Roxon.[2] Her paternal grandparents were Jewish and migrated from Poland to Australia in Anglicising the family name from Ropschitz to Roxon, her grandfather worked as a GP in Gympie and Brisbane, Queensland.[3] Her mother Lesley trained as a pharmacist, while her father Jack was a microbiologist.

He was a strong influence in her life and she was devastated by his death from cancer when she was 10 years old.

Roxon was educated at the Methodist Ladies' College in the suburb of Kew in Melbourne, Victoria.

Roxon biography wikipedia Nicola Louise Roxon born 1 April is an Australian former politician. After politics, she has worked as a company director and academic. Roxon represented the lower house seat of Gellibrand in Victoria for the Australian Labor Party ; from the federal election until her retirement in August Between and , Roxon was the first female Attorney-General of Australia. Roxon was born in Sydney , New South Wales.

She studied for a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at the University of Melbourne, winning the university medal for law.[4] She ultimately came to the view that "governments have got a role to make sure they can help people in circumstances they can't control—either through their health failing or an accident".[2]

Between and , Roxon was employed as a judge's associate to High Court Justice Mary Gaudron.[2] She then became involved with the trade union movement, joining the National Union of Workers as an organiser.

Roxon was also an industrial lawyer and senior associate with the law firm Maurice Blackburn and Co. from to [5]

Political career

Roxon was elected to the comfortably safe Labor seat of Gellibrand in , succeeding longtime member Ralph Willis.[6]

She served on a number of committees, including the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Resources and the Joint Select Committee on the Republic Referendum.[6]

Roxon was promoted to the Shadow Ministry after Labor's loss in the election.

Initially, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Child Care, Family Support and Youth. Roxon then had a brief stint as Shadow Minister for Population and Immigration later that year, when Julia Gillard moved from the Immigration portfolio to Health.

Roxon biography book: Lillian Roxon (8 February – 10 August ) was an Australian music journalist and author, best known for Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia (). [1][2] Roxon was born Lillian Ropschitz in Alassio, Province of Savona, Italy.

In , new leader Mark Latham appointed her shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader on the Status of Women. She remained as Shadow Attorney-General following Latham's election loss in the election, holding this position until Kevin Rudd appointed her to the position of Shadow Health Minister upon his elevation to the Labor leadership in December , and she retained the portfolio when Labor won government, replacing Tony Abbott as Minister for Health and Ageing.[6]

Roxon made headlines during the federal election campaign when, on 31 October , then Health Minister Tony Abbott arrived half an hour late for a televised debate.

After apologising on behalf of the absent party to the audience of media and health industry figures, Roxon had the debate to herself and made light of the situation by stating that her staff felt she did a good impersonation of Abbott and could play his part. When Abbott arrived, he apologised for being late, but swore at Roxon when she claimed he could have been on time if he had wanted to.[7][8]

Minister for Health

In February , Roxon attempted to introduce legislation backing the alcopops tax increase into parliament.[9]

In , Roxon aimed to introduce major health reform in Australia.

She said the Government would hold a referendum on hospital reform even if the Senate rejected the idea.[10]

In , Roxon was featured in the Australian Story television program in an episode entitled "Kicking The Habit", about her advocacy for plain cigarette packaging.[11]

Attorney-General

Prime Minister Julia Gillard implemented a major change to her Cabinet on 14 December Roxon was promoted from Health and Ageing to become Australia's first woman to serve as Attorney-General.[12][13] In a reshuffle announced on 2 March , Roxon was given the additional portfolio of Emergency Management.[14] She was sworn into that portfolio on 5 March.[6]

In May , Attorney-General Roxon announced that the Australian Government would not approach the British Government to seek a pardon for Harry "Breaker" Morant because Morant and his two fellow officers did, in fact, kill unarmed prisoners and others during the Second Boer War.

Resignation

Roxon resigned as Attorney-General on 2 February She continued as a backbencher for the remainder of her term, and retired when the parliament was dissolved before the federal election.[15]

See also

References

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    Roxon biography As the Ropschitz family were Jewish , they migrated to Australia in to escape the rise of fascism, and settled in Brisbane. Shortly after their arrival, the family anglicised their names; the surname Roxon was Lillian's suggestion. Roxon studied at the University of Queensland , where she met and had a brief affair with Zell Rabin, who gave Lillian her first job in the United States and who became a key associate of media magnate Rupert Murdoch in the early s. She pursued further studies at the University of Sydney from , where she developed an affinity for the cultural movement known as the Sydney Push , then congregating at the Lincoln Inn. In , Roxon moved permanently to New York City , becoming the first Australian female overseas correspondent and the first Australian journalist to establish a high profile in the U.

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