Margaret Quirk

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Margaret Quirk
MLA

Member of the Legislative Assembly

of Western Australia

Incumbent

Assumed office

10 February 2001

Preceded Ted Cunningham

by

Constituen Girrawheen
cy

Personal details

Born 26 June 1957 (age 62)

Adelaide, South Australia,

Australia

Political Labor
party

Alma mater University of Adelaide

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.
 Contents

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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.