Peta-Kaye Croft (born 5 August 1972, in

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) is an Australian Labor Party politician who represented the seat of Broadwater in the

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. She entered Parliament at the 2001 election by defeating

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. She was defeated at the

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Verity Barton Verity Mary Barton (born 6 August 1985) is an Australian politician. She was the LNP member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Broadwater from 2012 to 2017. She defeated Peta-Kaye Croft at the 2012 state election and was re-elect ...

. She was born in

and lived in

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and

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during her early years. She was educated on the

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boarding at St Hilda's School, and graduating from

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with a

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, majoring in Japanese. Croft is also a qualified swimming instructor and has strong interests in the environment and protecting native flora and fauna.

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