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Profile of The Hon Nicola Roxon MP, Minister for Health and Ageing.


Nicola Roxon is the Minister for Health & Ageing in the new Labor Government.

Nicola has been in Parliament for 10 years was elected to the House of Representatives October in 1998 as the Federal Labor Member for Gellibrand.
Prior to entering parliament, Nicola worked as a Senior Associate at Labor law firm Maurice Blackburn, a Judge's Associate with High Court Justice Mary Gaudron, and a n Industrial Officer with the National Union of Workers. Nicola has a First Class Honours Law degree and Arts degree from Melbourne University. She won the Supreme Court Prize for top law graduate in 1990 .

She is in charge of the Government's $2.5 billion Health and Hospital Reform Plan.