Yvette Berry | |
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13th Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory | |
Assumed office 31 October 2016 | |
Leader | Andrew Barr |
Preceded by | Simon Corbell |
Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party (ACT Branch) | |
Assumed office 31 October 2016 | |
Leader | Andrew Barr |
Preceded by | Simon Corbell |
Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly for Ginninderra | |
Assumed office 20 October 2012 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Yvette Simone Berry [1] 1 August 1968 |
Nationality | Australian |
Political party | Labor Party |
Relations | Wayne Berry (father) |
Occupation | Union organiser |
Website | www |
Yvette Simone Berry (born 1 August 1968) is an Australian politician and Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory. She has been a Labor Party member for the seat of Ginninderra in the ACT Legislative Assembly since the 2012 ACT election. Berry is the daughter of Wayne Berry who was a Member of the ACT Assembly for Ginninderra from 1989 to 2008,Deputy Chief Minister from 1991 to 1994,Opposition Leader from 1997 to 1998 and Speaker from 2001 to 2008. [2] Berry is the first family member of a current or previous member to be elected to the ACT assembly.
For schooling,Berry attended Holt Primary School,Ginninderra District High School and Hawker College. [3]
Prior to her election to the Assembly Berry worked as a community organiser for the United Voice (formerly called the Liquor,Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU)) trade union for more than 15 years representing workers and their families to win fairer wages and better conditions. [4] She was active in the Clean Start campaign to improve jobs for cleaners in the CBD office cleaning industry and coordinated the Big Steps campaign to win professional wages for Early Childhood Educators in the early childhood education sector. [5] Before she started working at the LHMU Berry commenced her working life in the hospitality industry where she worked for 8 years. [6]
Berry is a full-time working mother with two children who lives with her family in the West Belconnen suburb of Macgregor. [6]
Berry chaired the Legislative Assembly's ‘Select Committee on Regional Development’which undertook an inquiry into regional development from February 2013 to February 2014. [7]
In 2014 Berry was a member of the following Standing Committees:Public Accounts (PAC),Health,Ageing,Community and Social Services (HACS),Education,Training and Youth Affairs (ETYA) and Chair of the Planning,Environment and Territory and Municipal Services (PETAMS) Standing Committee. [8]
Berry voted for the Legislative Assembly's 'Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013' [9]
On 20 January,Chief Minister Andrew Barr appointed Berry a Minister in his Government. She assumed the following portfolios:Women,Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs,Housing,Community Services and Social Inclusion,Multicultural and Youth Affairs and she was made Minister assisting the Chief Minister on Social Inclusion and Equality. [10]
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