Summary heading
Hon Christine Anne Gallus
Career within Commonwealth
Christine Anne Gallus was born in Adelaide, South Australia
and educated at Broadland House (Launceston,
Tasmania), Firbank Church of England Girls Grammar School (Victoria), the Australian National University, Sturt College of Advanced Education and Flinders University
(South Australia). She worked as an advertising executive, a journalist in both
Australia and Canada, and as a research officer in the South Australian Health
Commission’s Southern Community Health Services Research Unit.
Her political career began as a delegate of the South
Australian State Council of the Liberal Party. She was first elected to the
House of Representatives as a Member for Hawker (SA) (1990 -1993) and later,
following an electoral redistribution, became the Member for Hindmarsh from 1993 until her retirement from politics in
2004.
During the Keating Labor Government, Gallus held the Shadow
Ministry portfolios of Environment (1993 -1994) and Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Affairs (1994 – 1996). In the Howard Liberal Coalition
Government, she was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Reconciliation
and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (2001) and to the Minister
for Foreign Affairs (2001 – 2004). During her parliamentary career, Gallus
served on parliamentary committees relating to Community Affairs, Environment,
Recreation and the Arts (1990 – 1993), Native Title and the Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Land Fund (1994 – 1996), Migration (1996 – 2001),
Financial Institutions and Public Administration and Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (1996 – 1998) and Environment and
Heritage (1998 – 2001). She was also a member of various parliamentary
delegations, including the Australian Constitutional Convention in Canberra
(1998).
Gallus was a recipient of the Centenary Medal in 2003.
Links to other Commonwealth Persons
Publications
Youth report – Marion, Brighton and Glenelg
needs assessment, Adelaide: Southern Community Health Services, 1989
Parents and children (co-author), Adelaide: Southern
Community Health Services, 1989
End notes
Sources
Australian Parliament website, Member’s home page (as at 21
July 2004)
Canberra Times, 20 July 2004, ‘vice-regal’ notice
Who’s Who in Australia 2004, p 775
Australian Parliament House website, biography (as at 8 July
2008)