Lynda Jane Voltz (born 1965) is an Australian politician and Labor Party member of the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...

, representing

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since 2019. Voltz was previously a member of the

New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ...

from 2007 to 2019. As of April 2016, Voltz is also the Shadow Minister for Sport and Veterans' Affairs. Voltz was born in Hornsby on Sydney's North Shore, and attended

Birrong Girls High School Birrong Girls High School is a government-funded single-sex comprehensive secondary day school for girls, located on Cooper Road, Birrong, a western suburb of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1957, the school enrolled a ...

. Voltz joined the

Australian Army Reserve The Australian Army Reserve is a collective name given to the reserve units of the Australian Army. Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, the reserve military force has been known by many names, including the Citizens Forces, the Citizen ...

in 1984, and in 1987 she became one of the first women to the join the regular

Australian Army The Australian Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. The Army is commanded by the Chief of Army (Austral ...

as one of the second group of women to train alongside men at

Army Recruit Training Centre Army Recruit Training Centre (ARTC) is the official name given to the Australian Army's basic training establishment since 1 December 1998. Situated at Kapooka, an outer suburb of Wagga Wagga, in the Riverina region of New South Wales, the Army ...

Kapooka Kapooka is a suburb in the south-west of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. Kapooka is home to the Department of Defence's Blamey Barracks from where the Army Recruit Training Centre conducts its operations. It is located on the Olympic ...

. She joined the

Royal Australian Corps of Military Police The Royal Australian Corps of Military Police (RACMP) is a corps within the Australian Army. Previously known as the Australian Army Provost Corps, it was formed on 3 April 1916 as the ANZAC Provost Corps. It is responsible for battlefield traff ...

, as it was one of the few field force units women were allowed to join. After leaving the army, she worked as a political staffer for state MP

Sandra Nori Sandra Christine Nori (born 16 June 1953 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is a former Australian politician and presently a company director and Member of Macquarie University Council. Nori was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assemb ...

, federal member for Sydney Peter Baldwin, and then as an electoral officer for Senator

John Faulkner John Philip Faulkner (born 12 April 1954) is an Australian former Labor Party politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1989 to 2015. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Keating, Rudd and Gillard Governments. After his election to ...

. At the

1995 New South Wales state election Elections to the 51st Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday 25 March 1995. All seats in the Legislative Assembly and half the seats in the Legislative Council were up for election. The minority Liberal Party-led Coalition governm ...

, she contested the district of North Shore but was defeated by the Liberal candidate,

Jillian Skinner Jillian Gell Skinner (born 5 August 1944) is an Australian politician who was the New South Wales Minister for Health in the Baird government. Skinner was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing North Shore for the ...

. She has two daughters, Katerina and Anastasia.

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Lynda Voltz - New South Wales Labour
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