Donna Faragher
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The Honourable Donna Faragher MLC |
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Faragher in 2008
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| Member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia |
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Assumed office 22 May 2005 |
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| Constituency | East Metropolitan Region |
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12 September 1975 Middle Swan, Western Australia, Australia |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Alma mater | University of Western Australia |
Donna Evelyn Mary Faragher (née Taylor; born 12 September 1975) is an Australian politician who has been a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia since 2005, representing East Metropolitan Region. She became a minister in the government of Colin Barnett in 2008, becoming the youngest woman to hold ministerial office in Western Australia.
Faragher was born in Perth to Joan Betty Light and Donald Franklin Taylor, both of whom were police officers. She attended primary school at Guildford Grammar School and secondary school at Perth College. Faragher then went on to the University of Western Australia, graduating with an initial Bachelor of Arts degree and later completing a Master of Education. She was federal secretary of the Australian Liberal Students' Federation in 1997.
Prior to entering parliament, Faragher worked as a policy advisor for Senator Chris Ellison, a federal government minister under John Howard. She was elected to the Legislative Council at the 2005 state election, running second behind Helen Morton on the Liberal Party's ticket in East Metropolitan Region. Aged 29 at the time of her election, she became the youngest female MP for the Liberal Party (and the second-youngest overall, after Bill Grayden), as well as the second-youngest woman ever elected to the Legislative Council (after the Labor Party's Louise Pratt).
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