Helen Kroger
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Helen Kroger | |
|---|---|
| Chief Government Whip in the Senate | |
| In office 18 September 2013 – 1 July 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Abbott |
| Preceded by | Anne McEwen |
| Succeeded by | David Bushby |
| Senator for Victoria | |
| In office 1 July 2008 – 30 June 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Rod Kemp |
| Succeeded by | Ricky Muir |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Helen Evelyn Madden 11 March 1959 |
| Party | Liberal Party of Australia |
| Spouse | Michael Kroger (divorced) |
| Alma mater | Monash University |
Helen Evelyn Kroger (née Madden; born 11 March 1959) is a former Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing the state of Victoria from 2008 to 2014. She was the president of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party from 2003 to 2006.
Kroger was the Liberal candidate for the Melbourne seat of Bruce at the 2016 election, where she lost the two-party-preferred vote by a margin of 9.48% to Labor candidate Julian Hill.
Kroger was born Helen Madden in Melbourne. She studied economics at Monash University in the 1970s, where she met her future husband Michael Kroger. After graduating from Monash, she worked in human resources and recruitment at IBM and KPMG. She married Michael Kroger in the early 1980s, and they had two sons. The couple later divorced.
Kroger left the corporate world and ran Blacamoor Delicatessen, a small delicatessen in Malvern East.[1]
