- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE2724
Burke, Anna Elizabeth
- AO
- Occupation Parliamentarian
Summary
Anna Burke, a member of the Australian Labor Party, was elected to the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia representing Chisholm, Victoria,between 1998 and 2016. After the 2007 election, she was elected as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and in 2012 assumed the Speaker’s role until August 2013.
On 16 January 2017, Burke was appointed as a full-time Member of the General, Freedom of Information, and Veterans’ Appeals Divisions of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, with her term to end on 15 January 2024.
In the 2019 Australia Day Honours Burke was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for “distinguished service to the Parliament of Australia, particularly as Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to the community”.
Details
Anna Burke completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Monash University and a Masters in Communication (Hons) from the University of Melbourne. She was an Industrial Officer with Victorian Roads, the Victorian Institute of Technology, and the Finance Sector Union before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1998. She has served on the House of Representatives Standing Committee for Economics, Finance and Public Administration; and its Joint Statutory Committee for Corporations and Financial Services, and Public Accounts and Audit.
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Resource
- Trove: Burke, Anna Elizabeth (1966-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-711060