Chloë Catienne Fox (born 22 February 1971) is an Australian
politician who represented the
South Australian House of Assembly seat of
Bright from 2006 to 2014 for the
Labor Party.
Personal life
Fox is the daughter of Australian children's author,
Mem Fox and teacher Malcolm Fox. Fox attended
Blackwood High School in Adelaide's south and attended the
University of Adelaide and the
City University, London.
She was engaged to fellow politician
Leon Bignell
Leon William Kennedy Bignell (born 1966), Australian politician, is the member for Mawson representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party since the 2006 election.
Background
Bignell was a high-profile ABC sports repor ...
from March 2006 to March 2007 until the wedding was called off.
In late 2009 Fox announced she was pregnant, with the birth due in March 2010, around the time of the
2010 state election. The father's identity has been kept confidential by Ms Fox following the breakdown of their longtime relationship. Her son, Theo, was born two months premature in January 2010.
Career
Fox worked as a journalist at the
Adelaide Advertiser for three and a half years, traveled to France, where she worked for Elle Online and UNESCO, before returning to Adelaide, where she undertook a Grad. dip in Education, and then worked as a high school teacher of English, French and History at
Loreto College,
Marryatville.
Fox was involved in politics from a young age, handing out Labor how-to-vote cards at the age of 14. Fox was linked with the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA).
At the 2004 federal election, she stood against member Andrew Southcott in the safe Liberal seat of Boothby and achieved a 9.9 percent primary and 2 percent two-party swing. She subsequently ran in the marginal Liberal seat of Bright at the 2006 South Australian state election
The state election for the 51st Parliament of South Australia was held in the Australian state of South Australia on 18 March 2006 to elect all members of the South Australian House of Assembly and 11 members of the South Australian Legislative ...
against shadow minister Angus Redford
Angus John Redford (born 16 September 1956) is a former South Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the South Australian Legislative Council between 1993 and 2006.
Wayne Matthew, sitting member for Bright, retired at the 2006 ...
, who was attempting to switch from the Legislative Council to the House of Assembly. She was tipped to face a difficult battle, but won in a landslide, having achieved a 16.9 percent primary and 14.4 percent two-party swing—enough to turn Bright into a safe Labor seat in one stroke. She actually won enough primary votes to take the seat off the Liberals without the need for preferences.
In March 2009 Fox became Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier
Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier.
A premier will normally be a head of governm ...
during a ministerial reshuffle in the Rann government.
In April 2010, Fox was appointed Deputy Speaker and the Chairman of Committees in the House of Assembly. In 2011 she was named as the SA Transport Services Minister. She was also appointed as Minister Assisting the Minister for the Arts. In the 2014 state election she was not returned to her seat.
In September 2014 she was appointed to the Lifetime Support Authority. In January 2015 she was employed as a French teacher at Brighton Secondary School
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.[ ] As of 2018, she has been a French teacher at Mitcham Girls High School.
References
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Members of the South Australian House of Assembly
University of Adelaide alumni
Alumni of City, University of London
1971 births
Living people
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia
21st-century Australian politicians
21st-century Australian women politicians
Women members of the South Australian House of Assembly