Thursday, 2 September, 2010 - 00:00
Decision time in Canberra
THE narrow win by Liberal candidate Ken Wyatt in the Perth metropolitan seat of Hasluck has swung momentum towards Tony Abbott as negotiations to form a federal government continue.
Melissa Parke was the Federal Member of Fremantle, Western Australia for the Australian Labor Party. She was the Minister for International Development in the Rudd ministry, from July to September 2013. Ms Parke retired from politics in May 2016.
Prior to entering politics, she was a lawyer for the United Nations and had worked for the UN in Kosovo, Lebanon, Gaza, and New York. She was also a law lecturer at Murdoch University, the principal solicitor at the Bunbury Community Legal Centre, and in private legal practice in Sydney and Western Australia.
In September 2017, Ms Parke was appointed as an Ambassador for ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons). In October 2017, ICAN was announced as the winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its role in achieving the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. In December 2017, Ms Parke was appointed by the UN Human Rights Commissioner to the "Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen", to investigate human rights violations in Yemen.
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THE narrow win by Liberal candidate Ken Wyatt in the Perth metropolitan seat of Hasluck has swung momentum towards Tony Abbott as negotiations to form a federal government continue.
The governments of Tony Abbott and Colin Barnett face big challenges when it comes to cutting spending.
Labor leader Bill Shorten has named his opposition ministry, with WA MPs Gary Gray and Melissa Parke awarded the resources and assistant health portfolios respectively.
A diverse group of local not-for-profit disability enterprises has set a target to win $50 million worth of contracts by 2018 and create an additional 500 jobs for people with a disability.
Prominent Labor MP and former resources minister Gary Gray has dropped another bombshell, announcing last night he will retire at the next federal election, meaning all three of Labor’s sitting members in the House of Representatives from Western Australia plan to quit this year.
A former federal Labor minister has entered the race for Julie Bishop's seat of Curtin in the upcoming election.
Battling Western Australians may shift their votes from the Liberal Party of Australia to the Australia Labor Party at the looming election, wooed by Labor's policies on wage growth and penalty rates.
Melissa Parke, who held the seat of Fremantle for close to a decade, has been appointed chair of WA Museum Boola Bardip.
Melissa Parke is a former Member of Parliament, served as Minister for International Development, and is a former United Nations lawyer.
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