Kirsten Fiona Livermore (born 10 November 1969) is an Australian former politician. She was an

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member of the

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from October 1998 until September 2013, representing the

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, Queensland. Livermore was born in

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, Queensland, and was educated at the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

. She was a solicitor and an organiser with the

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before entering politics. On 27 November 2012, Livermore announced that she would not stand in the federal election to be held in 2013. Following her retirement from politics, Livermore lived in the

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with her family for 16 months where she studied a masters of international development at the

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. In 2015, Livermore moved back to Australia basing herself in Canberra where she began working for the Minerals Council of Australia. After taking a break for 18 months, Livermore was offered a job in September 2019 as team leader working for Australia Mongolia Extractives Program, an Australian Government-funded company which works with the

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on mining investment in

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. Livermore's position is mostly based in

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, with her team responsible for bringing in Australian geologists and engineers to assist the Mongolian Government with mining reform.

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