Michaelia Clare Cash is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Western Australia.
Cash was first elected to parliament at the 2007 federal election. She contested the election as the number three candidate of the Liberal Senate ticket in Western Australia.
Since entering Federal Parliament Cash has been elected to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties and the Regulations and Ordinances Committee. In September 2010 Cash was made the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Status of Women and the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration.
Cash was born in the Perth suburb of Subiaco. In the 1990s she was a staffer to former Liberal senator Ross Lightfoot, who she later succeeded in the Senate.
Cash is a long-standing member of the Liberal Party. She was an executive member of the Curtin University Young Liberals from 1988 to 1990 and then the Western Australian Young Liberal Movement, where she held numerous positions including state vice-president.
She is a member of the state council and was the president of the Moore Division. She also served on the party's state executive.
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Michaelia Clare Cash is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal Party member of the...
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Michaelia Clare Cash is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Western Australia.
Cash was first elected to parliament at the 2007 federal election. She contested the election as the number three candidate of the Liberal Senate ticket in Western Australia.
Since entering Federal Parliament Cash has been elected to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties and the Regulations and Ordinances Committee. In September 2010 Cash was made the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Status of Women and the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration.
Cash was born in the Perth suburb of Subiaco. In the 1990s she was a staffer to former Liberal senator Ross Lightfoot, who she later succeeded in the Senate.
Cash is a long-standing member of the Liberal Party. She was an executive member of the Curtin University Young Liberals from 1988 to 1990 and then the Western Australian Young Liberal Movement, where she held numerous positions including state vice-president.
She is a member of the state council and was the president of the Moore Division. She also served on the party's state executive.
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