Sue Lines
Susan Lines is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2013, representing the Labor Party. She has been Deputy President of the Senate since 2016. Before entering politics she was a trade union official.Early life
Lines was born in Perth, Western Australia. Her father was born in England, and her maternal grandparents were Scottish. She held British citizenship by descent until renouncing it prior to the 2013 election. Lines was educated at Armadale Senior High School and Murdoch University. She has been a member of the United Voice trade union since 1987, and was the Sydney-based assistant national secretary of the union at the time of her nomination for appointment to the Senate. She has been a member of the Australian Labor Party National Executive.Politics
On 15 May 2013, a joint sitting of the Parliament of Western Australia appointed Lines to fill the casual vacancy in the Senate caused by the resignation of Senator Chris Evans. On 30 September 2016, she was elected Deputy President of the Senate in succession to Gavin Marshall. She is the third woman to hold the position, after Margaret Reid and Sue West.
