Marie Tehan

Marie Tehan
Minister for Conservation and Land Management
In office
23 March 1996 – 21 October 1999
PremierJeff Kennett
Preceded byMark Birrell
Succeeded bySherryl Garbutt
Minister for Health
In office
6 October 1992 – 23 March 1996
PremierJeff Kennett
Preceded byMaureen Lyster
Succeeded byRob Knowles
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Seymour
In office
3 October 1992 – 17 September 1999
Preceded byNew division
Succeeded byBen Hardman
Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
In office
21 March 1987 – 2 October 1992
Personal details
Born
Marie Therese O'Brien

(1940-06-19)19 June 1940
Melbourne, Victoria
Died31 October 2004(2004-10-31) (aged 64)
Nagambie, Victoria
Political partyLiberal Party of Australia
Spouse
James Tehan
(m. 1963)
Children6, including Dan Tehan
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne (LLB)
OccupationLawyer and politician

Marie Therese Tehan (née O'Brien; 19 June 1940 – 31 October 2004) was an Australian politician and lawyer.

Educated at Sacré Cœur School, Glen Iris, Melbourne and at the University of Melbourne, Marie O'Brien qualified as a lawyer. She married James "Jim" Tehan in 1963 and settled in regional Victoria. They had six children—including Dan Tehan, the current federal member for Wannon, elected in the 2010 federal election. She established her own legal practice in Mansfield in 1970.[1]

Tehan was elected to the Victorian Parliament in 1987 and retired in 1999. Representing the Liberal Party, Tehan served in both houses of the Victorian Parliament. She was the member for Central Highlands Province in the Legislative Council from 1987 to 1992 and for Seymour in the Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 1999. As a minister in the Kennett Liberal government, she held the portfolios of Minister for Health from 1992 to 1996 and Minister for Conservation and Land Management from 1996 to 1999.[2]

Tehan died on 31 October 2004, at Nagambie, Victoria, aged 64, due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).[3][4]

  1. ^ "Tehan, Marie Therese (1940 - 2004)". Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Marie Therese Tehan". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Former Minister died from CJD". The Sydney Morning Herald. 5 November 2004. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Tributes for ex-minister Marie Tehan". The Age. 2 November 2004. Retrieved 27 January 2020.