Tanya Plibersek | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Minister for the Environment and Water | |
| Assumed office 1 June 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Anthony Albanese |
| Preceded by | Sussan Ley |
| Deputy Leader of the Opposition | |
| In office 14 October 2013 – 30 May 2019 | |
| Leader | Bill Shorten |
| Preceded by | Julie Bishop |
| Succeeded by | Richard Marles |
| Deputy Leader of the Labor Party | |
| In office 14 October 2013 – 30 May 2019 | |
| Leader | Bill Shorten |
| Preceded by | Anthony Albanese |
| Succeeded by | Richard Marles |
| Minister for Health and Medical Research | |
| In office 14 December 2011 – 18 September 2013 | |
| Prime Minister | Julia Gillard Kevin Rudd |
| Preceded by | Nicola Roxon |
| Succeeded by | Peter Dutton |
| Minister for Human Services | |
| In office 14 September 2010 – 14 December 2011 | |
| Prime Minister | Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Chris Bowen |
| Succeeded by | Brendan O'Connor |
| Minister for Social Inclusion | |
| In office 14 September 2010 – 14 December 2011 | |
| Prime Minister | Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Simon Crean |
| Succeeded by | Mark Butler |
| Minister for Housing | |
| In office 3 December 2007 – 14 September 2010 | |
| Prime Minister | Kevin Rudd Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Brian Howe (1996) |
| Succeeded by | Mark Arbib |
| Minister for the Status of Women | |
| In office 3 December 2007 – 14 September 2010 | |
| Prime Minister | Kevin Rudd Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Julie Bishop |
| Succeeded by | Kate Ellis |
| Member of Parliament for Sydney | |
| Assumed office 3 October 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Baldwin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tanya Joan Plibersek 2 December 1969 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Political party | Labor |
| Spouse | |
| Alma mater | University of Technology Sydney Macquarie University |
| Occupation | Politician |
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| Website | www |
Tanya Joan Plibersek[a] (born 2 December 1969) is an Australian politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labor Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2019. She has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sydney since 1998. A member of the Labor Party, Plibersek served as a Cabinet Minister in the Rudd, Gillard and Albanese governments. She is currently the Minister for the Environment and Water in the Albanese ministry since 2022, having previously served as the Shadow Minister for Education and Shadow Minister for Women between 2019 and 2022.
Plibersek was born in Sydney to Slovenian immigrant parents and grew up in Sutherland Shire. She has degrees from the University of Technology Sydney and Macquarie University, and worked in the NSW Government's Domestic Violence Unit before entering parliament. Plibersek was elected to the Division of Sydney at the 1998 federal election, aged 28. She joined the Shadow Cabinet in 2004, and when Labor won the 2007 election was made Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women.
In a cabinet reshuffle in 2010, Plibersek was made Minister for Human Services and Minister for Social Inclusion. She was promoted to Minister for Health the following year, and held that position until Labor's defeat at the 2013 election. Plibersek was elected Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party in the election's aftermath. Plibersek served as deputy leader until Labor's defeat at the 2019 Australian federal election; after Anthony Albanese's ascension to leader of the opposition, Plibersek was made shadow minister for education. Upon Labor's victory at the 2022 Australian federal election, Plibersek assumed the office of Minister for the Environment and Water.
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