Michaelia Cash

Michaelia Cash
Cash in 2018
Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate
Assumed office
23 May 2022
LeaderSimon Birmingham
Preceded byKristina Keneally
Ministerial offices 2013–⁠2022
Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate
In office
30 October 2020 – 23 May 2022
Prime MinisterScott Morrison
Preceded bySimon Birmingham
Succeeded byDon Farrell
Attorney-General of Australia
In office
30 March 2021 – 23 May 2022
Prime MinisterScott Morrison
Preceded byChristian Porter
Succeeded byMark Dreyfus
Minister for Industrial Relations
In office
30 March 2021 – 23 May 2022
Prime MinisterScott Morrison
Preceded byChristian Porter
Succeeded byTony Burke
Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business
In office
29 May 2019 – 30 March 2021
Prime MinisterScott Morrison
Preceded byHerself (as Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education)
Succeeded byStuart Robert (as Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business)
Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education
In office
28 August 2018 – 29 May 2019
Prime MinisterScott Morrison
Preceded byCraig Laundy
Succeeded byHerself (as Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business)
Minister for Jobs and Innovation
In office
20 December 2017 – 23 August 2018
Prime MinisterMalcolm Turnbull
Preceded byHerself (as Minister for Employment)
Succeeded byKelly O'Dwyer (as Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations)
Minister for Employment
In office
21 September 2015 – 20 December 2017
Prime MinisterMalcolm Turnbull
Preceded byEric Abetz
Succeeded byHerself (as Minister for Jobs and Innovation)
Minister for Women
In office
21 September 2015 – 20 December 2017
Prime MinisterMalcolm Turnbull
Preceded byTony Abbott
Succeeded byKelly O'Dwyer
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women
In office
18 September 2013 – 21 September 2015
Prime MinisterTony Abbott
Preceded byJulie Collins
Succeeded byHerself (as Minister for Women)
Senator for Western Australia
Assumed office
1 July 2008
Preceded byRoss Lightfoot
Personal details
Born
Michaelia Clare Cash

(1970-07-19) 19 July 1970 (age 54)
Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
Political partyLiberal
ParentGeorge Cash
Alma mater

Michaelia Clare Cash (born 19 July 1970) is an Australian politician who served as the 38th Attorney-General of Australia from 2021 to 2022 in the Morrison government. She has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2008 and is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia.

As well as being Attorney-General in the Morrison government, Cash also served as Minister for Industrial Relations from 2021 to 2022, and Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business and Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education from 2018 to 2021. Previously, she served in the Turnbull government as the Minister for Jobs and Innovation from 2017 to 2018 and Minister for Employment and Minister for Women from 2015 to 2017.