Nicola Roxon
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The Honourable Nicola Roxon |
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| Attorney-General of Australia | |
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In office 14 December 2011 – 2 February 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Robert McClelland |
| Succeeded by | Mark Dreyfus |
| Minister for Health and Ageing | |
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In office 3 December 2007 – 14 December 2011 |
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| Prime Minister |
Kevin Rudd Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Tony Abbott |
| Succeeded by |
Tanya Plibersek (Health) Mark Butler (Mental Health and Ageing) |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Gellibrand |
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In office 3 October 1998 – 5 August 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Ralph Willis |
| Succeeded by | Tim Watts |
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1 April 1967 Sydney, Australia |
| Political party | Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Kerrisk |
| Children | 1 daughter |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| Website | Victoria University web page |
Nicola Louise Roxon (born 1 April 1967), an Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the seat of Gellibrand in Victoria for the Australian Labor Party from the 1998 federal election until her retirement in August 2013. Between 2011 and 2013, Roxon was the Attorney-General of Australia. Roxon is currently an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University.
Roxon was born in Sydney, New South Wales. She is the second of three daughters and the niece of the late Australian journalist and Sydney Push member Lillian Roxon. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish and migrated from Poland to Australia in 1937. Anglicising the family name from Ropschitz to Roxon, her grandfather worked as a GP in Gympie and Brisbane, Queensland. Her mother Lesley trained as a pharmacist, while her father Jack was a microbiologist. He was a strong influence in her life and she was devastated by his death from cancer when she was 10 years old.
Roxon was educated at the Methodist Ladies' College in the suburb of Kew in Melbourne, Victoria. She studied for a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at the University of Melbourne, winning the university medal for law. She ultimately came to the view that "governments have got a role to make sure they can help people in circumstances they can't control—either through their health failing or an accident".
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