Carolyn Therese Male is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician. She has been a Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 since 2001.

Male was first elected to parliament as the Labor member for Glass House

Electoral district of Glass House

The district of Glass House is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The electorate is based mostly on the hinterland areas of the Sunshine Coast and north of Caboolture, it stretches north to Witta, south to the northern outskirts of Caboolture and...

 at the 2001 state election. She served three terms as the member for Glass House, but a redistribution ahead of the 2009 state election

Queensland state election, 2009

The Queensland state election was held to elect members to the unicameral Parliament of Queensland on 21 March 2009. The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a...

 made the district much less favourable for Labor. Consequently, she successfully contested the seat of Pine Rivers

Electoral district of Pine Rivers

The district of Pine Rivers is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.It was first created for the 1972 state election, based in the Shire of Pine Rivers in the northern outskirts of Brisbane...

 to win a fourth term.

Male currently serves as the Parliamentary Secretary for Education. She was Government Whip from 11 September 2006 to 8 April 2009.

Male was born in Nambour

Nambour, Queensland

The area now known as Nambour, was first settled in 1870. The town was then called Petrie's Creek. In 1890 the Maroochy Divisional Board was established...

. She is married with two daughters.