Born 25.1.48 at Sydney, NSW.
Parliamentary Service
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Australian Capital Territory: Member, ACT Legislative Assembly from 28.9.74.
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Resigned 22.5.79.
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Federal: Elected to the House of Representatives for Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1990 and 1993. Resigned 30.1.95.
Committee Service
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House of Representatives Standing: Expenditure from 11.5.83 to 5.6.87.
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Joint Statutory: Public Accounts from 4.6.81 to 5.6.87.
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Joint: Australian Capital Territory from 4.12.80 (Chairman from 28.2.85) to 5.6.87; New Parliament House from 4.12.80 to 26.10.84; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 10.5.94 to 30.1.95.
Conferences, Delegations and Visits
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Visit to Israel 1983.
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Member, Parliamentary Delegation to the European Parliamentary Institutions, Strasbourg, Brussels and the Federal Republic of Germany, September 1986.
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Official visits to New Zealand, August 1988; Europe, UK and Thailand, October 1989; New Zealand, February 1990; UK and USA, June-July 1990; New Zealand, August 1990; Switzerland, November 1990; Japan, June-July 1991; France, Belgium, UK and Singapore, December 1991; New Zealand, March 1992; Malaysia, Korea, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Singapore, April-May 1992; Brazil, May-June 1992; UK, Spain and Singapore, July-August 1992; Canada and USA, April 1993; the Netherlands, Italy and Monaco, September 1993.
Party Positions
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Secretary, ALP Woden Valley Branch 1973.
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Vice-President, ALP (ACT) 1974.
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ACT Delegate, ALP National Conferences, 1977, 1979, 1984 and 1986.
Qualifications and Occupation before entering Federal Parliament
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BA, DipEd (Syd).
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Consultant.
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Member, ACT Consumer Affairs Council 1974-79.
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Foundation Member, ACT Legal Aid Commission 1974-79.
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Member, Interim Schools Authority 1977.
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Member, Permanent Schools Authority 1977-79.
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Chairman, ACT Schools Authority 1978-79.
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Ros Kelly was elected with a large majority as the first woman member of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) House of Assembly and later became the first Labor woman federal minister in the House of Representatives and the first to give birth while holding office.
Ros Kelly was educated at St. Ursula's College, Ashbury, and obtained a BA DipEd from the University of Sydney. She worked as a high school teacher from 1969 to 1974.
She moved to Canberra in 1970 and was elected the first woman member of the ACT House of Assembly from 1974 to 1979. She also became the first woman chair of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Schools Authority from 1978 to 1979 and a foundation member of the ACT Legal Aid Commission from 1978 to 1979.
Kelly has been patron of numerous ACT sporting clubs and a member of many ACT ethnic, social and community associations.
In 1980 Kelly was elected to the federal seat of Canberra with one of the largest swings against the then Liberal government, and in 1983 she became the first federal parliamentarian to give birth while an MP. In 1987 Kelly became the first Labor woman federal minister in the House of Representatives.
As member for Canberra, Kelly was secretary of the Federal Labor Caucus from 1981 to 1987 and held office as minister for the portfolios of Defence, Science and Personnel from 1987 to 1988; Communications and Aviation Support from 1988 to 1990; Arts, Sport, Environment, Tourism and Territories from 1991 to 1993; Environment, Sport and Territories from 1993 to 1994; Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories from 1994 to 1995. She also served as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women until 1994.
Kelly resigned from federal politics in 1995, and has worked as a senior executive in environmental management since that time. She is currently on the Board of Trustees of the National Breast Cancer Foundation, a trustee for the World Wide Fund for Nature and a board member of the Westpac Emergency Helicopter Service.
In 2004 Kelly was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the community through promoting corporate environmental responsibility and fostering dialogue between business and conservation groups, to the Australian Parliament, and to women's health.
She has two children.
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1978 - 1979
Foundation member of the Legal Aid Commission
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1978 - 1979
Chairperson of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Schools Authority
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Australian Women's Register
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