Roberta McRae
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Roberta McRae OAM |
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| Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 15 February 1992 – 9 March 1995 Serving with Berry, Carnell, Connolly, Cornwell, De Domenico, Ellis, Follett, Grassby, Humphries, Kaine, Lamont, Moore, Stevenson, Szuty, Westende, Wood |
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| Preceded by | Multi-member single constituency |
| Succeeded by | Multi-member multiple constituencies |
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In office 9 March 1995 – 21 February 1998 Serving with Berry, Hird, Horodny, Stefaniak |
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| Preceded by | Multi-member single constituency |
| Succeeded by | Jon Stanhope |
| Constituency | Ginninderra |
| 2nd Speaker of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 27 March 1992 – 9 March 1995 |
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| Preceded by | David Prowse |
| Succeeded by | Greg Cornwell |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 September 1948 Italy |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Alma mater | Frankston Teachers' College; Armidale College of Advanced Education; Australian National University; Macquarie University |
| Occupation | Academic; teacher; lawyer; former politician |
Roberta McRae OAM (born 6 September 1948 in Italy), former Australian politician, was a member of the unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 1998, elected to the multi-member single constituency Assembly and later elected to represent the multi-member electorate of Ginninderra for the Australian Labor Party. A former teacher, following politics, McRae entered academia.
McRae was educated in Australia and trained as an infants' teacher at the Teachers' College in Frankston, Victoria and commenced teaching at St Albans, Victoria in 1970, before relocating to Canberra. By 1972 she taught at primary schools in Macquarie and Watson. In 1973 McRae travelled to Malaysia with Australian Volunteers Abroad and taught English as a second language at the Mara Institute of Technology. She returned to Australia in 1974, gained employment as public servant in the Department of Education and developed curriculum materials for the teaching of English as a second language (ESL) in Australian primary schools. From 1976 to 1989, McRae was employed by the Canberra College Technical and Further Education and the University of Canberra to train ESL teachers and also completed a Graduate Diploma in Multicultural Studies at the College of Advanced Education in Armidale, New South Wales and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts at the Australian National University in 1984.
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