# Annette Hurley
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{{Short description|Australian politician}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Annette Hurley
| caption =
| order = [Senator](/source/Australian_Senate) for [South Australia](/source/South_Australia)
| term_start = 1 July 2005
| term_end = 30 June 2011
| deputy =
| predecessor =
| successor =
| order1 = Deputy [Leader of the Opposition (SA)](/source/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(South_Australia))
| term_start1 = 1 January 1997
| term_end1 = 9 February 2002
|leader1 = [Mike Rann](/source/Mike_Rann)
| predecessor1 = [Ralph Clarke](/source/Ralph_Clarke_(Australian_politician))
| successor1 = [Dean Brown](/source/Dean_Brown)
|office2 = [Deputy Leader of the South Australian
Labor Party](/source/South_Australian_Labor_Party)
|term_start2 = 1 January 1997
|term_end2 = February 2002
|predecessor2 = [Ralph Clarke](/source/Ralph_Clarke_(Australian_politician))
|successor2 = [Kevin Foley](/source/Kevin_Foley_(South_Australian_politician))
|leader2 =[Mike Rann](/source/Mike_Rann)
| order3 = [Member for Napier](/source/Electoral_district_of_Napier)
| term_start3 = 11 December 1993
| term_end3 = 9 February 2002
| predecessor3 = [Terry Hemmings](/source/Terry_Hemmings)
| successor3 = [Michael O'Brien](/source/Michael_O'Brien_(South_Australian_politician))
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|3|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = [Adelaide](/source/Adelaide), South Australia
| party = [Labor Party](/source/Australian_Labor_Party_(South_Australian_Branch))
}}
'''Annette Kay Hurley''' (born 23 March 1955) is a former [Australia](/source/Australia)n politician. Elected at the [2004 federal election](/source/2004_Australian_federal_election), she was a [Labor](/source/Australian_Labor_Party_(South_Australian_Branch)) member of the [Australian Senate](/source/Australian_Senate) from July 2005, representing the state of [South Australia](/source/South_Australia). She announced in July 2010 that she would not re-contest her seat at the [following federal election](/source/2010_Australian_federal_election) and her six-year term ended on 30 June 2011.[[http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/in-depth/labor-senator-annette-hurley-decides-not-to-seek-re-election/story-fn5rizbk-1225886871019 Labor Senator Annette Hurley decides not to seek re-election: The Advertiser 1 July 2010] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003052240/http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/in-depth/labor-senator-annette-hurley-decides-not-to-seek-re-election/story-fn5rizbk-1225886871019 |date=3 October 2012 }}]
Hurley was educated at the [University of Adelaide](/source/University_of_Adelaide), where she graduated in science. Before entering federal politics, she was member of the [South Australian House of Assembly](/source/South_Australian_House_of_Assembly) for the safe Labor seat of [Napier](/source/electoral_district_of_Napier) in Adelaide's northern suburbs from 1993 to 2002, and was Deputy Leader of the Opposition 1997–2002.[{{cite SA-parl |pid=533 |name=Ms Annette Hurley |former=yes |access-date=20 August 2022}}] At the [2002 South Australian state election](/source/2002_South_Australian_legislative_election), she decided to stand in [Light](/source/electoral_district_of_Light), a previously safe [Liberal](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Australia_(South_Australian_Division)) seat that had been made marginal in a redistribution. Hurley lost narrowly to Liberal incumbent [Malcolm Buckby](/source/Malcolm_Buckby). At that election, Labor fell one seat short of a majority. Had Hurley won Light, she would have delivered her party majority government and become South Australia's first female Deputy Premier.
In June 2005, before even taking her seat in the Senate, Hurley was elected to the Opposition front bench and appointed Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. She lost her front bench position in December 2006,[{{cite Au Parliament |mpid=E4U |name=Former Senator Annette Hurley |access-date=2022-08-20}}] after a shadow cabinet reshuffle instigated by new Leader of the Opposition [Kevin Rudd](/source/Kevin_Rudd) due to criticism of her fast promotion to the frontbench despite the fact that she had been deputy leader of the SA branch of the ALP.
Her promotion to the federal frontbench was a reward for taking the political risks which saw the end of her career in the South Australian Parliament and stopped her from becoming the state's Deputy Premier rather than the misperception that it was solely because of a factional arrangement.{{citation needed|date = September 2022}}
==References==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110706121558/http://aph.gov.au/Senate/senators/homepages/first_speech/sfs-e4u.htm?Folder=BIOGS&Criteria=NAME_ID%3AE4U%3B Annette Hurley, First Speech to Parliament]
*[https://archive.today/20121127041010/http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/TranslateWIPILink.aspx?Folder=BIOGS&Criteria=NAME_ID:E4U; Annette Hurley, Senate Biography]
*[http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/hurley-dumped-as-rudd-picks-team/2006/12/07/1165081058068.html Hurley dumped as Rudd picks team], ''[The Age](/source/The_Age)'', 7 December 2006.
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{{S-bef|before= [Ralph Clarke](/source/Ralph_Clarke_(Australian_politician))}}
{{S-ttl|title=Deputy [Leader of the Opposition](/source/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(South_Australia)) in [South Australia](/source/South_Australia)|years=1997–2002}}
{{S-aft|after= [Dean Brown](/source/Dean_Brown)}}
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{{S-bef|before=[Terry Hemmings](/source/Terry_Hemmings)}}
{{S-ttl| title=Member for [Napier](/source/Electoral_district_of_Napier) | years=1993–2002}}
{{S-aft|after=[Michael O'Brien](/source/Michael_O'Brien_(South_Australian_politician))}}
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Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia
Category:21st-century Australian politicians
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