Kirstie Marshall

Kirstie Claire Marshall
OAM MP
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Forest Hill
In office
30 November 2002 – 27 November 2010
Preceded byJohn Richardson
Succeeded byNeil Angus
Personal details
Born
Kirstie Claire Marshall

(1969-04-21) 21 April 1969 (age 55)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Political partyLabor Party
Children2
OccupationOlympic skier

Kirstie Claire Marshall, OAM[1] (born 21 April 1969) is an Australian aerial skier and Victorian state politician.

Marshall was an ex-gymnast who became an aerial skier at Mount Buller, Victoria. During her skiing career Marshall won over 40 World Cup medals, including 17 World Cup gold medals. Marshall competed in aerial skiing as a demonstration sport at the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics, and as a medal event at the 1994 Lillehammer and 1998 Nagano games, where she came sixth and fourteenth, respectively.[2]

In December 2002, aged 33, Marshall was elected as a Member of Parliament in the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Labor Party.

On 26 February 2003, she was ejected from the Lower House chamber for breastfeeding her 11-day-old baby, Charlotte Louise. A section of the Parliamentary rules, namely Standing Order 30, states: "Unless by order of the House, no Member of this House shall presume to bring any stranger into any part of the House appropriated to the Members of this House while the House, or a Committee of the whole House, is sitting." As there is no age limit to 'strangers in the House' (non-elected persons), only MPs and certain parliamentary staff are allowed in the House during sitting times.[3]

Subsequently, the Speaker of the House set aside a room in which female MPs can feed their children without violating the Standing Orders.

  1. ^ "Marshall, Kirstie Claire, OAM". It's an Honour. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kirstie Marshall". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 August 2009. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  3. ^ Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Victorian MP and baby ejected from House Archived 11 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine