Anne Urquhart
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Anne Urquhart | |
|---|---|
| Vice President of Tasmanian Labor | |
| Assumed office 29 April 2026 | |
| President | Nick Sherry |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Braddon | |
| Assumed office 3 May 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Gavin Pearce |
| Senator for Tasmania | |
| In office 1 July 2011 – 28 March 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Kerry O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | Josh Dolega |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Anne Elizabeth Polden 18 October 1957 Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia |
| Party | Australian Labor Party |
| Occupation | Union official |
| Website | anneurquhart |
Anne Elizabeth Urquhart (née Polden; born 18 October 1957) is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served as a Senator for Tasmania from 2011 until 2025. She was a senior official with the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) prior to entering politics. She is the Labor MP for Braddon elected at the 2025 federal election.[1]
Urquhart was born in Latrobe, Tasmania, the second of three children born to Tom and Betty Polden. After starting a family with her husband Graham, in July 1980 she began working as a process worker at the Edgell-Birds Eye factory in Ulverstone, which was later taken over by Simplot Australia.[2]
Urquhart joined the Food Preservers' Union of Australia, initially serving as a delegate and then from August 1990 as a full-time organiser. Her union was later merged into the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU),[2] and she served as state president from 1998 to 2004 and state secretary from 2004 to 2010.[3][4]
