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Ann Sudmalis is an Australian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Gilmore since 2013. She was born on 16 September 1955 in Milton, Australia. She is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Sudmalis attended the University of New South Wales, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1977. She then went on to work in the banking industry for over 20 years.
In 2013, Sudmalis was elected to the House of Representatives for the seat of Gilmore. She was re-elected in 2016 and 2019.
Sudmalis has held a number of ministerial positions, including Assistant Minister for Social Services and Multicultural Affairs (2015-2016), Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories (2016-2017), and Assistant Minister for Regional Development (2017-2018).
Sudmalis is married to John Sudmalis and has two children. She is a keen supporter of the arts and is a patron of the Milton Ulladulla Ex-Servicemen's Club.
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Ann Elizabeth Hardinge |
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69 years old |
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Virgo |
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16 September, 1955 |
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16 September |
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Milton, New South Wales, Australia |
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Australia |
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During her time as local member the Liberal party branches in the Gilmore electorate have collapsed in numbers. A preselection challenge was again discussed prior to the next Australian Federal election due to her rising unpopularity. However, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, treasurer Scott Morrison, and other senior Liberal party members, personally intervened to ensure Sudmalis was preselected for the next election. Despite that, she announced on 17 September 2018 that she would not contest the coming election, blaming what she called ego-driven bullying, betrayal and backstabbing by Gareth Ward, a Liberal member of state parliament for an electorate that overlaps hers.
On 15 August 2017, it was confirmed that Sudmalis was seeking confirmation of her possible British citizenship, which would render her unable to be a member of parliament.
Sudmalis was narrowly re-elected at the 2016 federal election with a margin of 0.7%, making Gilmore the most marginal federal seat in New South Wales.
In 2015 Sudmalis claimed that her opposition to same-sex marriage was based on the views of her conservative constituents. A survey that Sudmalis sent to her own mailing list resulted in 1552 community members in support of marriage equality versus 893 opposing it. Sudmalis made clear her support for a national plebiscite to decide the issue.
At the end of 2015, the NSW Liberal Government proposed the forced council amalgamation between Kiama Council and Shoalhaven City Council. Sudmalis condemned the proposal along with the Liberal State member for Kiama, Gareth Ward. At a community meeting in April 2016, Sudmalis accidentally signed a petition that indicated that she would vote against herself and her Liberal state party colleagues at subsequent federal and state elections in protest. A preselection challenge was discussed at local liberal branch level but did not eventuate.
In November 2014 it was announced that the Australian government would be reducing the ABC budget by $254 million, in spite of a pre-election promise by Tony Abbott not to cut the ABC's funding. The ABC managing director, Mark Scott, later announced where the cuts would affect, one area of which was the ABC's Nowra office. Sudmalis released an open letter to Mark Scott declaring his decision "appalling", "deplorable" and that he was "taking the easy way out" by allowing the Nowra branch to be closed and not targeting more cuts to metropolitan areas.
Following Gash's decision to retire from politics at the 2013 federal election, Sudmalis won Liberal pre-selection for Gilmore in April 2012, and was elected with 52.65% of the two-party preferred vote.
In 2003 Sudmalis spent six months in India as a volunteer teacher. In she 2006 worked as a community art teacher. Sudmalis completed a master's degree in education at Charles Sturt University and in 2011 taught part-time at the University of Wollongong as a tutor for the Diploma of Education program. Sudmalis worked as an electorate officer from 2007 to 2012. She undertook a Certificate IV in Visual Arts in 2012.
Sudmalis served as a councillor on the Kiama Council and worked as an advisor to Joanna Gash, the member for Gilmore between 1996 and 2013. At the 2007 New South Wales state election, Sudmalis contested the seat of Kiama, running unsuccessfully against Labor incumbent Matt Brown.
Sudmalis and her family moved to Kiama where she started a fudge business, Gran's Fudge, with her husband in 1988. In her maiden speech, Sudmalis said of this business "We changed a small cottage industry with just three employees to a business with over 40 staff, exporting to six international destinations." She was company director for 17 years, from 1988 to 2005.
Sudmalis worked as a waitress, cook and cleaner from 1974 to 1977, and as a science teacher for 10 years, from 1979 to 1988, in Canberra.
Ann Elizabeth Sudmalis (née Hardinge; born 16 September 1955) is a former Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Gilmore in New South Wales, from September 2013 until April 2019.
