Anna Burke

Anna Burke
A photograph of Anna Burke
28th Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
In office
9 October 2012 – 5 August 2013
DeputyBruce Scott
Preceded byPeter Slipper
Succeeded byBronwyn Bishop
Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
In office
24 November 2011 – 9 October 2012
Preceded byPeter Slipper
Succeeded byBruce Scott
In office
12 February 2008 – 28 September 2010
Preceded byHarry Jenkins
Succeeded byPeter Slipper
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Chisholm
In office
3 October 1998 – 9 May 2016
Preceded byMichael Wooldridge
Succeeded byJulia Banks
Personal details
Born
Anna Elizabeth Burke

(1966-01-01) 1 January 1966 (age 58)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Political partyLabor Party
Spouse
Stephen Burgess
(m. 1994)
ChildrenTwo
ResidenceBox Hill South[1]
EducationPresentation College, Windsor
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Monash University
OccupationUnion representative, Politician

Anna Elizabeth Burke AO (born 1 January 1966) is an Australian former politician who served as the 28th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2012 to 2013. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), she was the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Chisholm from 1998 to 2016.

Burke was a trade union representative before being selected by the Australian Labor Party to stand for the seat of Chisholm in 1998. She served as deputy speaker of the Australian House of Representatives twice from 2008 to 2010 and again from 2011 until the resignation of Speaker Peter Slipper due to allegations of fraud and sexual harassment in 2012. She was the second woman to become Speaker and held the office until the 2013 federal election, in which the Rudd government was defeated.

While in parliament, both as a member of the government and the opposition, Burke campaigned against offshore processing and mandatory detention of refugees, policies all of the major parties supported at the time. Burke retired from politics at the 2016 federal election. She is a current member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and an Officer of the Order of Australia. Since leaving politics, Burke has also served on the boards of several foundations and companies.

  1. ^ "Ms Anna Burke MP". Q&A. ABC. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015.