Janice Susan Kronberg (born 16 September 1947) is an Australian politician and a former member of the

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representing the

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. Kronberg was born in

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and is married with two children and two stepchildren. She received a Graduate Diploma of Training and Development in 2004 from the

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. She worked in a computer service bureau and in

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and selection. She was a lecturer in marketing at the

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from 1996 to 2006. Kronberg was elected to Parliament at the November 2006 election, becoming the only

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candidate to win the third position on any Upper House ticket. She was re-elected again in November 2010. In a letter to the Diamond Valley Leader newspaper on 21 November 2012, Labor MP for

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Danielle Green accused Kronberg of ‘being caught out’ claiming credit for $625,000 worth of funding for kinders and child care centres in the Melbourne municipality of Nillumbik (part of Kronberg's electorate), when in fact the money was being provided by the Federal government. On 22 November 2012,

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newspaper reported criticism of a Victorian state parliamentary ‘Inquiry into Liveability Options in Outer Suburban Melbourne’, of which Kronberg was the inquiry chairperson, as it had just one reference to transport issues – in London. Labor parliamentarian and committee member

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, the member for

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, said the government's neglect of transport issues was a disgraceful oversight. "I think it's a bit of a disgrace in that it doesn't mention public transport or trains or buses or roads, which is probably one of the most significant issues we've heard about with the growing outer suburbs," Ms Hutchins said. In March 2014, amongst speculation that she was being pressured to retire to make way for fellow Liberal MP Mary Wooldridge, who was without a seat to contest due to a redistribution that had abolished her former seat of

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, Kornberg announced she would be retiring at the November 2014 state election.

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