Louise Markus
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Louise Markus MP |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Macquarie |
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In office 21 August 2010 – 2 July 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Debus |
| Succeeded by | Susan Templeman |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Greenway |
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In office 9 October 2004 – 21 August 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Frank Mossfield |
| Succeeded by | Michelle Rowland |
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6 September 1958 Epping, Sydney Australia |
| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Political party | Liberal Party of Australia |
| Spouse(s) | Jim Markus |
| Children | Joshua and Hannah |
| Alma mater | University of New South Wales |
| Profession | Social worker |
| Religion | Australian Christian Churches |
| Website | www.louisemarkus.com.au |
Louise Elizabeth Markus (born 6 September 1958), Australian federal politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives, initially elected to represent the seat of Greenway in western Sydney for the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2004 federal election. Following an unfavourable redistribution in 2010, she moved to the seat of Macquarie. She lost the 2016 federal election to Labor's Susan Templeman.
She was educated at the University of New South Wales, graduating in social work, and was a community worker running the Hillsong Church's drug and alcohol outreach service in Blacktown prior to entering politics.
She is married to Jim Markus, who is from Papua New Guinea; together they have two children.
Subsequent to the 2004 election, unsubstantiated allegations were made in the NSW State Parliament under Parliamentary privilege that Mrs Markus had directly benefited from unauthorised campaign materials containing false statements in an attempt to capture anti-Islamic sentiment against her Labor opponent. These allegations were not supported as the basis for his loss by the Labor Candidate nor supported by contemporary media coverage.
Markus retained the seat of Greenway with a comfortable margin in the 2007 election, although with a nominal swing of 6.85 points against her on a two-party-preferred basis.
Following the 2007 election, she was made Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Citizenship, but lost the position in 2010. She was previously the Shadow Minister for Veteran's Affairs.
She lives in Riverstone, outside her electorate of Macquarie. A September 2006 redistribution of boundaries saw massive changes in the shape of her electorate of Greenway being centred on the Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains rather than Blacktown. The northward shift in electorate boundaries also saw Greenway change from marginal Liberal to safe Liberal. A further electoral redistribution in 2009 made the seat of Greenway notionally Labor on an estimated margin of 5.7%.
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