Liliana D'Ambrosio (born 30 July 1964 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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 member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Victorian Legislative Assembly

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 since 2002, representing the electorate of Mill Park

Electoral district of Mill Park

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She was educated at Mercy College, Coburg and St Aloysius College, North Melbourne. She received an Arts degree from the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

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 in 1986 and later a Diploma in Public Policy.

Political career

D'Ambrosio joined the Labor Party at university, and subsequently became an organiser with the Australian Services Union

Australian Services Union

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 in 1986. She was promoted to state organiser in 1994, and served in the position until 1999, when she became an electorate officer to Alex Andrianopoulos

Alex Andrianopoulos

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, the then-Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

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. He retired in 2002, and she replaced him as the party's candidate in his safe seat of Mill Park.

In 2010, D'Ambrosio joined John Brumby

John Brumby

John Mansfield Brumby , is an Australian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010. He became Premier after the resignation of Steve Bracks. He also served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. He contested his first election...

's cabinet when she was appointed Minister for Community Development after a cabinet reshuffle following the resignation of Lynne Kosky

Lynne Kosky

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Personal life

D'Ambrosio is a member of Labor women's network Emily's List

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 and the Union of Australian Women

Union of Australian Women

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. Her hobbies include odd jobs and crime fiction

Crime fiction

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. She is married to prominent [Deakin University] academic and author, Andrew Scott, with two children.