Elizabeth Jean Beattie is a former

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n politician. She was a Labor Party member of the

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from 1999 to 2014. She represented the electorate of

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from 2002; she previously represented the abolished electorate of

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. She was the Parliamentary Secretary assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs and Veteran Affairs in the Brumby Labor Government. Beattie was born in the

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suburb of

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. Prior to entering politics, she worked as an office manager for the

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from 1994 to 1996, and as a building manager at

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from 1996 until her election to parliament in 1999. She was also involved in her party's local branches, serving as president of the Labor branch in Sunbury from 1993 to 1998. Beattie was preselected as the Labor candidate for

for the 1999 state election, opposing outspoken conservative

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. Finn had won the seat, in a traditionally Labor area, in the huge Labor defeat of 1992, and been re-elected in 1996. She won the seat, and served for five terms before retiring from politics at the

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