Anna Burke

The Honourable Anna Burke AO
28th Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
In office 9 October 2012 – 5 August 2013
Deputy	Bruce Scott
Preceded by	Peter Slipper
Succeeded by	Bronwyn Bishop
Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
In office 24 November 2011 – 9 October 2012
Preceded by	Peter Slipper
Succeeded by	Bruce Scott
In office 12 February 2008 – 28 September 2010
Preceded by	Harry Jenkins
Succeeded by	Peter Slipper
Member of the Australian Parliament for Chisholm
In office 3 October 1998 – 9 May 2016
Preceded by	Michael Wooldridge
Succeeded by	Julia Banks
Personal details
Born	Anna Elizabeth Burke (1966-01-01) 1 January 1966 (age 58) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Political party	Labor Party
Spouse	Stephen Burgess ​ (m. 1994)​
Children	Two
Residence	Box Hill South[1]
Education	Presentation College, Windsor
Alma mater	University of Melbourne Monash University
Occupation	Union representative, Politician

Anna Elizabeth Burke AO (born 1 January 1966) is an Australian former politician who served as the 28th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2012 to 2013. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), she was the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Chisholm from 1997 to 2016.

Burke was a trade union representative before being selected by the Australian Labor Party to stand for the seat of Chisholm in 1998. She served as deputy speaker of the Australian House of Representatives twice from 2008 to 2010 and again from 2011 until the resignation of Speaker Peter Slipper due to allegations of fraud and sexual harassment in 2012. She was the second woman to become Speaker and held the office until the 2013 federal election, in which the Rudd government was defeated.

While in parliament, both as a member of the government and the opposition, Burke campaigned against offshore processing and mandatory detention of refugees, policies all of the major parties supported at the time. Burke retired from politics at the 2016 federal election. She is a current member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and an Officer of the Order of Australia. Since leaving politics, Burke has also served on the boards of several foundations and companies.