Justine Elliot
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The Honourable Justine Elliot MP |
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| Minister for Ageing | |
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In office 3 December 2007 – 28 June 2010 |
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Kevin Rudd Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Christopher Pyne |
| Succeeded by | Mark Butler |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Richmond |
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Assumed office 9 October 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Larry Anthony |
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Maria Justine Elliot 29 July 1967 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Craig Elliot |
| Children | 2 |
| Occupation | Police officer |
Maria Justine Elliot MP (born 29 July 1967), an Australian politician, is the Labor member for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Richmond since the 2004 federal election. Between 2007 and 2010, Elliot was the Minister for Ageing.
Elliot was born in Brisbane, Queensland and was educated at the University of Queensland, where she graduated in Arts. She was a Queensland Police officer between 1990 and 1997 and was later Juvenile Justice Conference Convener with the New South Wales Department of Juvenile Justice. Elliot also holds a Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management & Industrial Relations from Griffith University.
In a considerable upset at the 2004 election, Elliot defeated the National Party's Larry Anthony, a minister in the Howard government. Elliot's win was one of the few victories for the Labor Party as the Coalition easily won a fourth term in government. She was only the second Labor member ever to win the seat, and was also the only Labor challenger to defeat a Coalition MP in a rural seat. Richmond had been in the hands of a conservative party for all but six years since Federation, and for 66 of those years by the National Party. For much of that time, it had been a reasonably safe National seat. However, the growth of Tweed Heads and other coastal communities, as well as the concurrent loss of its more rural territory, has seen it become an increasingly urban seat since the 1980s. Elliot trailed Anthony by 11 points on the first count and was well behind him for most of the night. However, on the seventh count, a Green candidate's preferences flowed overwhelmingly to Elliot, allowing her to defeat Anthony by 301 votes.
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