Judi Moylan
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Early life
Moylan was born on 24 February 1944 in Guildford, Western Australia. She completed a diploma in real estate management at Perth Technical College.[1] She obtained a real estate licence in 1979 and subsequently established her own real estate business.[2] Moylan was also a TAFE coordinator and lecturer from 1984 to 1987. She was president of the Midland and Districts Chamber of Commerce from 1990 to 1991.[1]
Politics
Moylan was first elected to parliament at the 1993 federal election.[1] She was the first woman to hold a WA seat in the House of Representatives for the Liberal Party.[2] She was a supporter of John Hewson in the 1994 leadership spill, in which Hewson was defeated by Alexander Downer. She was subsequently appointed to Downer's shadow ministry as the shadow small business minister.[2]
Following the Coalition's victory at the 1996 federal election, Moylan was appointed Minister for Family Services in the Howard government. She was moved to the status of women portfolio in October 1997 and dropped from the ministry after the 1998 election.[1] In November 1997 she appeared in a television advertising supporting a "Yes" vote in the republic referendum, alongside other Liberal ministers Amanda Vanstone and John Fahey.[3]
Moylan was a leading member of the Liberal Party's "small-l liberal" wing, which made her stand out in an increasingly conservative party.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In June 2005 she joined a backbench revolt led by Liberal colleague Petro Georgiou in an attempt to end the system of mandatory detention in Australia of asylum seekers.[4] On 28 July 2011, she announced she would stand down at the next federal election.[5]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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