The Australian Women's Register

Michelle Hopkins was born in Perth in 1960. Her parents, William and Frances Hopkins, were both business managers. She attended Mercedes College, then graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education. In 1983 she began teaching at John Curtin Senior High School, and married Gregory Roberts in the same year. Roberts had joined the Australian Labor Party in 1978, and subsequently became prominent in the Teachers’ Union, and held a variety of branch positions within the Labor Party. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia for Glendalough at the by-election held on 19 March 1994 after the resignation of Dr Carmen Mary Lawrence. This electorate was abolished in the redistribution of 1994, and Roberts was elected to the Thirty-Fifth Parliament for Midland (new seat) on 14 December 1996. She was re-elected 2001, 2005, 2008.

Michelle Hopkins Roberts’ page on the Parliament of Western Australia website is at http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament%5CMemblist.nsf/WAllMembersFlat/Roberts,+Michelle+Hopkins?opendocument