Gai Marie Brodtmann an Australia

Australia

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n politician

Politician

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, is a member of the Australian House of Representatives

Australian House of Representatives

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 for the seat of Canberra

Division of Canberra

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 representing the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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. She succeeded Labor MP Annette Ellis

Annette Ellis

Annette Louise Ellis , Australian politician, was a Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 to August 2010, representing the Division of Namadgi 1996–98 and the Division of Canberra from 1998 to 2010.In the 1996 federal election she contested Namadgi against...

, who retired from politics at the 2010 federal election.

Early years and background

Brodtmann worked as a public servant at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and later in the Attorney-General

Attorney-General of Australia

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's Department. She subsequently ran her own small business. Brodtmann is married to ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 journalist Chris Uhlmann

Chris Uhlmann

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.