Kerri-Anne Dooley is an Australian politician. She was elected member of the

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for Redcliffe in the

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, after five unsuccessful times for the seat. In the

2012 Queensland state election The 2012 Queensland state election was held on 24 March 2012 to elect all 89 members of the Legislative Assembly, a unicameral parliament. The Labor Party (ALP), led by Premier Anna Bligh, was defeated by the opposition Liberal National P ...

she contested Redcliffe for the

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. Since the 2014 by-election she has contested the seat for the Liberal National Party. She has lived in

Redcliffe, Queensland Redcliffe is a coastal town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. It also refers colloquially to the Redcliffe Peninsula as a whole, a peninsula jutting into Moreton Bay which contain ...

all her life. Before politics, she worked as a registered nurse for over three decades, specializing in palliative care at

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. Prior to her nursing career, she served as an international volunteer with

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for five and a half years in Europe, Africa and Asia, where she learned French and Mandarin.

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