Julie Collins
Australian politician
Julie Maree Collins (born 3 July 1971) is an Australian politician who serves as Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in the Albanese ministry. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Tasmanian seat of Franklin since the 2007 federal election. She previously held ministerial positions in the Gillard and Rudd governments and in the first Albanese ministry.
Early life
Collins was born in Hobart on 3 July 1971. Her father died when she was five months old, leaving her mother, Anne Peters, widowed at the age of 19. She spent her early years in her grandparents' housing commission property. Her mother subsequently remarried and she was adopted by her step-father Andrew Collins.
Collins attended Cosgrove High School but discontinued her studies at 15 before finishing high school and began a full time role at the local supermarket she worked at since she was 14. She did this as she became aware that she could not financially afford the costs of finishing years 11 and 12. Shortly after the 1987 federal election she began working for the ALP as an administrative assistant.
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