Clare Michele Scriven is an Australian politician. She has been a

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member of the

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since the 2018 state election. Scriven was raised in

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, before living and working in

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for the

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from 2007. She later returned to Mount Gambier. She was previously the State Manager of the Australian Forest Products Association, and had post-graduate degrees in management and business. She and her husband Gerard has six children. On 10 April 2018, Scriven was elevated to the Malinauskas Labor shadow cabinet as: Deputy Leader in the Legislative Council, Shadow Minister for Industry & Skills, and Shadow Minister for Forestry. Following the 2022 election, Scriven has served as the Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development and Minister for Forest Industries in the

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since March 2022. She is one of the two regional ministers in the cabinet, the other being Independent member

Geoff Brock Geoffrey Graeme Brock (born 1950) is an Australian politician. He is an Independent (politics), Independent member in the South Australian House of Assembly, representing the seat of Electoral district of Stuart, Stuart since the 2022 South Au ...

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