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Barbara Mary Scott (née Barnett; born 21 July 1939) is a former Australian politician. She was a member of the
Western Australian Legislative Council The Western Australian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, a state of Australia. It is regarded as a house of review for legislation passed by the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative A ...
representing the South Metropolitan Region from 1993 to 2009. Elected to Parliament in the 1993 state election and subsequently re-elected in the
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
,
2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
and
2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
state elections, she served as a member of the
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. Scott grew up in the wheatbelt town of Walgoolan and after completing her teaching qualification she returned to the country as a teacher. After entering parliament Scott acted as the shadow minister for Culture and the Arts (March 2005 - April 2006), shadow minister for Censorship and Children (March 2005 to present) and shadow minister for the Arts (April 2006 to present). In February 2008 Scott announced that she would retire from politics at the next state election and would not seek preselection.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Barbara 1939 births Living people Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia People from Merredin, Western Australia 21st-century Australian politicians Women members of the Western Australian Legislative Council 21st-century Australian women politicians