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Emily Sarah Bourke is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the
South Australian Legislative Council The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the House of Assembly. It sits in Parli ...
since the 2018 state election. Bourke previously worked as a staffer for
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Jay Weatherill. She was elevated to the top position on Labor's Legislative Council ticket by the Right faction after
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withdrew. After Labor won government at the 2022 state election, Bourke was appointed by new Premier Peter Malinauskas to
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as Assistant Minister to the Premier. In August 2022, she was appointed the assistant minister for
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.


Early and personal life

Bourke was born and grew up on a farm near Maitland on Yorke Peninsula. She studied in Adelaide then moved back to Yorke Peninsula to work for the
Yorke Peninsula Country Times ''Yorke Peninsula Country Times'' is a weekly South Australian newspaper, which was first published on 4 September 1968. It was formed by the merging of ''Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times'' and ''South Australian Farmer,'' representing numerous fo ...
. She married Aemon Bourke and they live in Adelaide with three daughters.


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