Maxine Margaret McKew (born 22 July 1953) is an Australian politician and the Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education and Child Care in the First Rudd Ministry. Since 2007, she has been the member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Bennelong, New South Wales.
Before entering politics, McKew was an award-winning broadcast journalist. She hosted a number of programmes on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) telev...
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Maxine Margaret McKew (born 22 July 1953) is an Australian politician and the Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education and Child Care in the First Rudd Ministry. Since 2007, she has been the member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Bennelong, New South Wales.
Before entering politics, McKew was an award-winning broadcast journalist. She hosted a number of programmes on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television and radio, most recently Lateline and The 7.30 Report. In February 2007, McKew announced her candidacy for Bennelong. The seat in the northern Sydney suburbs was held by the then Prime Minister John Howard, who had been the member for 33 years. McKew received 39,408 (45.33%) of the primary vote, behind Howard's 39,551 (45.49%); following the distribution of preferences, McKew secured 44,685 votes (51.40%). She is the first woman, and only the second person, to unseat a sitting Australian prime minister in his own electorate. Howard...
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