Wade, Jan Louise Murray (1937 - )

A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Jan Wade served as the member for Kew in the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the State of Victoria from 1988-99. As a Minister in the Liberal Government from 1992-99, she held the portfolios of Attorney-General, Fair Trading and Women's Affairs.

• Murray, Jan Louise (maiden name)

Educated at Sydney Girls' High School, Firbank Church of England Girls' Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, Jan Wade worked as a solicitor in private practice (1964-67), in the Parliamentary Counsel's office from 1970-79 and as president of the Equal Opportunity Board (1985-88) before entering parliament in 1988.

Australian Women Exhibitions

• Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Projects, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html. [ Details... ]

Pamphlets

• Wade, Jan, Tribunals in the Department of Justice : a principled approach : discussion paper, Attorney General, Melbourne, 1996, 18 pp. [ Details... ]

See also

• Victorian Parliamentary Handbook / prepared by direction of the President of the Legislative Council and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne, 1989, 106 pp. [ Details... ]
• Neto, Maryanne (researcher) (ed.), Who's who in Australia 1998, 38 edn, Information Australia Group Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 1997, 1720 pp. [ Details... ]