Susan Barbara Jeanes (born 24 February 1958) is an Australian politician. She was a

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member of the

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from 1996 to 1998, representing the electorate of

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. She defeated Labor MP Gordon Bilney as part of the Liberal victory at the 1996 federal election, only to lose to Labor candidate David Cox at the closer-run 1998 federal election. By the

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, the Liberal MP for the electorate of Fisher,

Bob Such Robert Bruce Such (2 June 1944 – 11 October 2014) was a South Australian politician. He was the member for the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1989 until his death in 2014. He defeated Labor MP Philip Tyler at ...

, had left the party and become an

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. Jeanes won Liberal preselection for the seat but lost to Such at the election. After her parliamentary career ended she worked as an advisor on

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policy to the then federal Environment and Heritage Minister Robert Hill. She was later appointed chief executive officer of the Renewable Energy Generators of Australia (REGA) and is a director of the Climate Institute. In November 2007 she was appointed chief executive of the Australian Geothermal Energy Association, the national industry association for the Australian geothermal energy industry.

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Susan Jeanes, Parliamentary Library
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