Amanda Vanstone
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The Honourable Amanda Vanstone |
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| Minister for Employment | |
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In office 11 March 1996 – 9 October 1997 |
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| Prime Minister | John Howard |
| Preceded by | Simon Crean |
| Succeeded by | David Kemp |
| Minister for Justice | |
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In office 9 October 1997 – 30 January 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | John Howard |
| Preceded by | Daryl Williams |
| Succeeded by | Chris Ellison |
| Minister for Family and Community Services | |
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In office 10 November 2001 – 7 October 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | John Howard |
| Preceded by | Jocelyn Newman |
| Succeeded by | Kay Patterson |
| Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs | |
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In office 7 October 2003 – 30 January 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | John Howard |
| Preceded by | Phillip Ruddock |
| Succeeded by | Kevin Andrews |
| Senator for South Australia | |
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In office 1 December 1984 – 26 April 2007 |
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| Succeeded by | Mary Jo Fisher |
| Personal details | |
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7 December 1952 Adelaide, South Australia |
| Political party | Liberal Party of Australia |
| Alma mater | University of Adelaide |
Amanda Eloise Vanstone (née O'Brien; born 7 December 1952) is an Australian former politician and a former Ambassador to Italy. She was a Liberal Senator for South Australia from 1984 to 2007, and held several ministerial portfolios in the Howard Government. After her resignation from the Senate in 2007, she served as the Australian Ambassador to Italy until July 2010. Her time as Minister for Immigration was marked by controversies within the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.
Vanstone was born Amanda Eloise O'Brien on 7 December 1952, the youngest of four children in Adelaide, South Australia. Her father died when she was three. Her mother remarried soon afterwards, but not long after this her stepfather also died. She was educated at the St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School. Vanstone has said that she does not defer to male authority due to growing up in a female-headed household and attending a school run by women.
At the University of Adelaide, Vanstone received both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law degrees, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and a Marketing Studies Certificate from the South Australian Institute of Technology which is now the University of South Australia. In the late 1980s, she married Tony Vanstone, a commercial lawyer from Adelaide, taking his surname. Prior to entering politics, Amanda Vanstone worked as a retailer in a large department store, and later had her own business selling prints and picture-frames. She later took up a job as a legal practitioner.
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