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Margaret Quirk
MLA
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 February 2001
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Political Labor
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Murdoch University
Margaret Mary Quirk (born 26 June 1957) is an Australian politician who has been a Labor
Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia since 2001. She served as a
minister in the governments of Geoff Gallop and Alan Carpenter between 2005 and 2008.
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Early life
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Politics
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See also
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References
Early life[edit]
Quirk was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to Helen Marian Sykes and James Patrick
Quirk. During her childhood, she lived for periods in Perth, Western Australia, and Oxford,
England, but eventually returned to Adelaide, graduating from Unley High School. Quirk
went on to study law at the University of Adelaide, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws
degree in 1975. She moved to Canberra after graduation, initially working for the
administrative review section of the federal government's Department of Immigration and
Ethnic Affairs. She later worked in the office of the Commonwealth Director of Public
Prosecutions. Quirk moved to Western Australia in 1988 to work as an adviser to the Labor
government of Peter Dowding on energy and environmental issues. She was employed by a
commercial law from 1989 to 1991, and then worked for the National Crime Authority until
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her election to parliament.