Michaelia Cash

Michaelia Clare Cash
Senator for Western Australia
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2008
Personal details
Born	19 July 1970 (1970-07-19) (age 41)
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Liberal Party of Australia
Spouse(s)	Richard Price
Relations	Hon George Cash AM (Father)
Alma mater	University of London, Curtin University and The University of WA
Occupation	Senator for Western Australia

Michaelia Clare Cash (born 19 July 1970) is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Western Australia.

Cash was first elected to parliament at the 2007 federal election. She contested the election as the number three candidate of the Liberal Senate ticket in Western Australia.

Since entering Federal Parliament Cash has been elected to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties and the Regulations and Ordinances Committee. In September 2010 Cash was made the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Status of Women and the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration.

Cash was born in the Perth suburb of Subiaco. In the 1990s she was a staffer to former Liberal senator Ross Lightfoot, who she later succeeded in the Senate.^[1]

Cash is a long-standing member of the Liberal Party. She was an executive member of the Curtin University Young Liberals from 1988 to 1990 and then the Western Australian Young Liberal Movement, where she held numerous positions including state vice-president.

She is a member of the state council and was the president of the Moore Division. She also served on the party's state executive.

Before becoming a senator for Western Australia, Cash was a senior lawyer with the national law firm Freehills, which she joined in 1999 as an articled clerk. She practised in all areas of employment and industrial law including industrial relations, employee relations, occupational health and safety, equal opportunity, executive employment and unfair dismissal.^{[citation needed]}

Cash holds a Bachelor of Arts with a triple major in public relations, politics and journalism from Curtin University in Western Australia and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Western Australia. She went on to achieve honours in law at the University of London.

She is married to Richard Price, a barrister and the brother of late political journalist Matt Price. She is the daughter of Western Australian state MP George Cash.^[2]

References

1. ^ Misha Schubert and Tim Colebatch (30 June 2008). "New Senate starts the term afresh with a large injection of young blood". The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/national/new-senate-starts-the-term-afresh-with-a-large-injection-of-young-blood-20080629-2yvm.html. 
2. ^ Bernard Keane (26 August 2008). "A-X of new senators". Crikey. http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20080826-A-X-of-new-senators.html. 

External links

• Parliamentary biography
• Senator Cash's first speech

Persondata
Name	Cash, Michaelia Clare
Alternative names
Short description	Australian politician
Date of birth	19 July 1970
Place of birth	Subiaco, Western Australia
Date of death	living
Place of death