Elaine Carbines
| Elaine Cafferty Carbines | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Elaine Cafferty 4 February 1957 (age 60) Manchester, England |
| Nationality | Naturalized Australian |
| Education | Monash University Class of 1979 |
| Occupation | ex-Member of the Victoria Legislative Council |
| Known for | Politician |
Elaine Cafferty Carbines (born Elaine Cafferty, 4 February 1957) is an Australian politician. She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from September 1999 to November 2006, representing Geelong Province. A former teacher and community campaigner, Carbines was a prominent backbench member of the government, often raising issues of local concern. She was a member of the Labor Right faction.
Carbines was born in Manchester, England, but moved to Australia in 1968 after completing her elementary schooling. She received her secondary education at Mitcham High School, and studied teaching (BA 1978, Dip Ed 1979) at Monash University.
It was at university where she joined the Labor Party, in response to the controversial dismissal of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by Governor-General John Kerr. She worked as a secondary school teacher, mostly in underprivileged areas for the next twenty years.
In 1988 she gained a Dip Hum from La Trobe University.
She is married to Shane Carbines, a former umpire and senior official with the Geelong Football Umpires League. They have two children, Hannah, b1989 and Scott, b1991. Elaine is also stepmother to Anthony and Nick.
Throughout her working life, Carbines remained active in politics, having been a party member since university. She was the secretary of Labor's Belmont branch in 1994, and of the Portarlington branch from 1995 to 1997. In 1996, she made an unsuccessful bid for the seat of Bellarine in the Legislative Assembly. She was a delegate to the party's state conference, representing the federal electorate of Corangamite, from 1995 to 2009.
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