Margaret-Anne Bernadette Rowe is a former Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician. She was a Liberal

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 member of the Western Australian Legislative Council

Western Australian Legislative Council

The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state...

 representing Agricultural Region

Electoral region of Agricultural

The electoral region of Agricultural is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the South West, Peel and part of the Great Southern regions of the state...

 from 2005 until her resignation in 2007.

In 2007, Rowe missed more than six sitting days of parliament without approved leave, and was declared in contempt of the Parliament. She subsequently resigned on 22 June, citing health reasons. A countback on 16 July elected Brian Ellis

Brian Ellis (politician)

Brian Charles Ellis is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Western Australian Legislative Council since 2007, representing the region of Agricultural....

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