Events

1965 - 1984

Full-time mother

10 December 1965

Married Robert Vale and they had 4 sons

1984 - 1988

Full-time wife, mother and student

1988 - 1996

Solicitor

1993

Member of the Liberal Party

1994 - 1995

President of the Liberal Party Gymea Branch

1994 - 1995

Delegate to the Cook and Miranda Federal Electoral Councils

1994 - 1995

Delegate to the Liberal Party State Council (NSW)

1996

Elected to the House of Representative for Hughes, New South Wales

29 May 1996 - 27 November 1997

Member of the House of Representative Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs

9 October 1996 - 17 October 1996

Member of the House of Representative Standing Committee on Communications, Transport and Microeconomic Reform

29 September 1997 - 8 October 2001

Member of the House of Representative Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

8 December 1998 - 8 October 2001

Member of the House of Representative Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage

29 March 2001 - 8 October 2001

Member of the House of Representative Standing Committee on the Library

26 November 2001

Minister for Veterans' Affairs

26 November 2001 - October 2003

Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence

Sources used to compile this entry: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/biography.asp?id=VK6 accessed 2001-11-14, 2004-02-24 and De Micheli, Catherine and Herd, Margaret (eds), Who's who in Australia 2003, 39 edn, Crown Content, North Melbourne, 2003, p. 2039.