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Pru Goward

The Honourable
Pru Goward
MP
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Goward visits La traviata in Sydney (2012)
Member of the New South Wales Parliament
for Goulburn
Assumed office
24 March 2007
Preceded by new district
Majority 6.70 points (2015)
Minister for Family and Community Services
Assumed office
30 January 2017
Premier Gladys Berejiklian
Preceded by Brad Hazzard
Minister for Social Housing
Assumed office
30 January 2017
Premier Gladys Berejiklian
Preceded by Brad Hazzard
Minister for Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Assumed office
2 April 2015
Premier Mike Baird
Gladys Berejiklian
Preceded by new portfolio
Minister for Mental Health
In office
2 April 2015 – 30 January 2017
Premier Mike Baird
Preceded by Jai Rowell
Succeeded by Tanya Davies
Minister for Medical Research
In office
2 April 2015 – 30 January 2017
Premier Mike Baird
Preceded by Jillian Skinner
Succeeded by Brad Hazzard
Minister for Women
In office
3 April 2011 – 30 January 2017
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
Premier Mike Baird
Preceded by Jai Rowell
Succeeded by portfolio abolished
Minister for Planning
In office
23 April 2014 – 2 April 2015
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
Premier Barry O'Farrell
Preceded by Linda Burney
Succeeded by Gabrielle Upton
Personal details
Born Prudence Jane Goward
(1952-11-02) 2 November 1952 (age 64)
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.


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