The Honourable Pru Goward MP |
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Goward visits La traviata in Sydney (2012)
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Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Goulburn |
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Assumed office 24 March 2007 |
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Preceded by | new district |
Majority | 6.70 points (2015) |
Minister for Family and Community Services | |
Assumed office 30 January 2017 |
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Premier | Gladys Berejiklian |
Preceded by | Brad Hazzard |
Minister for Social Housing | |
Assumed office 30 January 2017 |
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Premier | Gladys Berejiklian |
Preceded by | Brad Hazzard |
Minister for Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault | |
Assumed office 2 April 2015 |
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Premier |
Mike Baird Gladys Berejiklian |
Preceded by | new portfolio |
Minister for Mental Health | |
In office 2 April 2015 – 30 January 2017 |
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Premier | Mike Baird |
Preceded by | Jai Rowell |
Succeeded by | Tanya Davies |
Minister for Medical Research | |
In office 2 April 2015 – 30 January 2017 |
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Premier | Mike Baird |
Preceded by | Jillian Skinner |
Succeeded by | Brad Hazzard |
Minister for Women | |
In office 3 April 2011 – 30 January 2017 |
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Premier |
Barry O'Farrell Mike Baird |
Preceded by | Linda Burney |
Succeeded by | Tanya Davies |
Assistant Minister for Health | |
In office 2 April 2015 – 30 January 2017 |
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Premier | Mike Baird |
Preceded by | Jai Rowell |
Succeeded by | portfolio abolished |
Minister for Planning | |
In office 23 April 2014 – 2 April 2015 |
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Premier | Mike Baird |
Preceded by | Brad Hazzard |
Succeeded by | Rob Stokes |
Minister for Family and Community Services | |
In office 3 April 2011 – 23 April 2014 |
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Premier | Barry O'Farrell |
Preceded by | Linda Burney |
Succeeded by | Gabrielle Upton |
Personal details | |
Born |
Prudence Jane Goward 2 November 1952 Adelaide, South Australia |
Political party | Liberal Party of Australia |
Spouse(s) | David Barnett (m. 1986) Alastair Fischer (m. 1973; dis. 1983) |
Children | Three including Kate Fischer |
Alma mater | Adelaide University (1974) |
Website | Parliamentary biography |
Prudence Jane Goward MP (born 2 September 1952 in Adelaide), an Australian politician, is the New South Wales Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister for Social Housing, since January 2017 in the Berejiklian government, and the Minister for Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, since 2015. She has previously served as the Minister for Mental Health, Minister for Medical Research, and Assistant Minister for Health between April 2015 and January 2017, and the Minister for Women between 2011 and January 2017, in the second Baird government and the Minister for Planning during 2014 and 2015. With the first Berejiklian government she returned to Community Services portfolio which she previously held between 2011 and 2014, in the O'Farrell and first Baird governments. Goward is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Goulburn for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2007.