Margaret Quirk
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Margaret Quirk | |
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| Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 10 February 2001 – 8 March 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Ted Cunningham |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Pastorelli |
| Constituency | Girrawheen Landsdale |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 June 1957 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Party | Labor |
| Alma mater | University of Adelaide Murdoch University |
| Website | www |
Margaret Mary Quirk (born 26 June 1957) is an Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2025. She served as a minister in the governments of Geoff Gallop and Alan Carpenter between 2005 and 2008.
Quirk was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to Helen Marian Sykes and James Patrick Quirk. During her childhood, she lived for periods in Perth, Western Australia, and Oxford, England, but eventually returned to Adelaide, graduating from Unley High School. Quirk went on to study law at the University of Adelaide, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1975. She moved to Canberra after graduation, initially working for the administrative review section of the federal government's Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. She later worked in the office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. Quirk moved to Western Australia in 1988 to work as an adviser to the Labor government of Peter Dowding on energy and environmental issues. She was employed by a commercial law from 1989 to 1991, and then worked for the National Crime Authority until her election to parliament.[1]
