Tebbutt, Carmel Mary (1964 - )

Carmel Tebbutt has been a very successful ALP politician who made the transfer from the upper to the lower house of the New South Wales parliament. However, before she entered state politics Carmel was a councillor in the Marrickville Council from 1993- to date and their Deputy Mayor from 1995-1998. She entered state politics when she was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1998 and subsequently re-elected in 2003. During this time she served as Minister for Juvenile Justice (1999-2003), Minister for Ageing, Disability Services and Minister for Community Services (2003 –2005) and Minister for Education and Training (2005). Carmel Tebbutt resigned in August 2005 to run for the Marrickville by-election which she won. She was then appointed Minister for Education and Training (2005 – to date).

NSW Minister for Juvenile Justice; Minister Assisting the Premier on Youth and Minister Assisting the Minister for the Environment. Elected Member Legislative Council (ALP) in 1998.

In 1981, Tebbutt obtained her Higher School Certificate from De La Salle College Cronulla. She worked as a Graduate Trainee, State Bank of NSW 1985-1986, and graduated with a Bachelor of Economics, majoring in Economics and Industrial Relations, from Sydney University in 1986.
Before being elected to the Legislative Council, she was an Industrial Officer for the AMP Staff Association 1986-1988, State Secretary AMP Staff Association 1988-1990; an Electorate Officer for Senator Bruce Childs 1990-1992; an Industrial Officer/Training Officer for the Community and Public Sector Union 1992-1995 and Policy Adviser to the Deputy Premier and Minister for Health 1995-1998.
Tebbutt has been a Representative of the Legislative Council on the Council of University of New England since 1998.She became a Minister in 1999, and has been Minister for Juvenile Justice since 1999, Minister Assisting the Premier on Youth Affairs since 1999, and Minister Assisting the Minister for the Environment since 1999.
Her Committee Memberships include: Sessional: Library Committee 1998-1999, Standing Orders Committee since 1999. Standing: Standing Committee on Social Issues 1998-1999.
Tebbutt became a Member of the ALP in 1985, and her party activities include: being a Member of the Executive of NSW Young Labor Council 1988-1991; President of the NSW Young Labor Council 1990-1991; Member of the ALP Economic Policy Committee 1990-1994; President Ashfield State Electorate Council 1994-1998; Deputy Convenor ALP Credentials Committee 1996-1999 and Member of the Administrative Committee ALP NSW Branch 1993-1999.
A Member of the Marrickville Council since 1993, Tebbutt served as Deputy Mayor 1995-1998. She was a Member of the Marrickville Aboriginal Consultative Committee 1995-1998 and a Member of the Marrickville Heritage Promotion Committee 1997-1998.
She is a Member of Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abord; Australian Republican Movement and the Evatt Foundation. Her interests include: social justice, local government, children's and young peoples services, education and the environment and she enjoys swimming, cycling, reading and movies.

Featured in

• Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament

See also

• Carmel Tebbutt, MLC, http://www.mssoft.com.au/Moana-Nui/tebbutt.html. [ Details... ]
• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's who in Australia 2001, 37 edn, Information Australia Group Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 2000, 1920 pp. [ Details... ]
• Women Members of the NSW Parliament, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/PHWebContent.nsf/PHPages
  /LibraryCompendiumwomenmp?OpenDocument. [ Details... ]
• Women Members of the Parliament of New South Wales, http://sites.archivenet.gov.au/nswparla/HTM%20pages/GuidePages/Women
  /members.htm. [ Details... ]