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Nov 01, 1973 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 50 years old
Australian politician
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About Peta Murphy
- Peta Jan Murphy (born 1 November 1973) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2019 federal election.
- She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and represents the Division of Dunkley in Victoria. Prior to entering parliament, Murphy was chief of staff to Labor MP Brendan O'Connor.
- At the 2019 election, she defeated incumbent Liberal MP Chris Crewther to become the first ALP member for Dunkley since 1996.
- A redistribution had made Dunkley a notional Labor seat prior to the election.
- Murphy also stood for Dunkley at the 2016 election.Murphy was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, aged 37.
- She received a new cancer diagnosis a few days after being sworn in to parliament in July 2019, which she announced in her maiden speech.Peta is proudly a public school graduate from the country.
- Her love affair with Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula dates back to the turn of the century, when she was introduced to the region by her husband, Rod Glover, a Baxter boy through and through.
- Following a diagnosis of breast cancer in 2011, Peta and Rod made the decision to move to Dunkley permanently – a decision they describe as the best one they ever made.
- They are proud Frankston residents. Prior to entering Parliament, Peta’s career was defined by a commitment to social justice and strong communities.
- In the decade and a half she worked in the Victorian justice system, Peta volunteered at her local Community Legal Centre, was a solicitor advocate, a Senior Public Defender at Victoria Legal Aid, a Barrister and a Team Leader at the Victorian Law Reform Commission.
- Peta has seen the corrosive effect that intergenerational disadvantage can have on people, families and communities and the way the operation of the legal system can cause further distress and damage to people when they're at their lowest.
- She understands that we need services—legal, social, health, employment and education—that work together to tackle disadvantage.
- It's that task that motivated her to move from the law into politics. Peta also put her legal qualifications and personal experience of the health system to good use, serving as a Director on the Board of Peninsula Health After running as the Labor candidate for Dunkley in the 2016 election, and motivated by witnessing the damage that cuts to public services and a lack of job opportunities cause individuals and communities, Peta took the position of Chief of Staff to The Hon Brendan O’Connor, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations in 2017. As part of her life long involvement in sport – as an athlete, coach and advocate for equality for girls and women - Peta has served as the President of Squash Victoria, Vice President of Squash Australia and member of the World Squash Federation Governance Committee.
- Locally, she volunteered on the Peninsula Waves Netball Club committee, and has represented the Mornington Peninsula a number of times at the Victorian country squash championships.
- She still tries to play squash when time permits, but is more or less resigned to the fact that her best days of competitive sport are behind her. Peta’s ambitions for her time in the Federal Parliament are to be a strong voice for her community and to be part of a generation of Australian politicians who work to recover the public's faith in our democratic system.
- Peta believes that politics should be a vehicle for increasing opportunities and enlarging our national imagination.
- She is committed to overcoming politics based on fear and division and chooses robust debates about ideas and solutions over personal attacks and petty judgements.
- Shortly after being sworn in as the member for Dunkley, Peta found out that her cancer has returned.
- She has vowed to use the platform of the Federal Parliament to protect and improve our system of universal health care and to address the challenges cancer patients and their families face navigating that system.
