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Carrum">Carrum</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span> <br />29 November 2014</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Donna_Bauer" title="Donna Bauer">Donna Bauer</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1969-05-15</span>) </span>15 May 1969<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 55)</span><br />Sydney, Australia</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party_(Victorian_Branch)" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch)">Labor</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_New_South_Wales" title="University of New South Wales">University of New South Wales</a><br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_Melbourne" title="University of Melbourne">University of Melbourne</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data">Commercial lawyer</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sonya Kilkenny</b> (born 15 May 1969<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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She has been a <a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party_(Victorian_Branch)" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch)">Labor Party</a> member of the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Legislative_Assembly" title="Victorian Legislative Assembly">Victorian Legislative Assembly</a> since November 2014, representing the <a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Carrum" title="Electoral district of Carrum">Electoral district of Carrum</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_legal_career">Early life and legal career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sonya_Kilkenny&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and legal career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kilkenny was born in Sydney, and attended schools in Hong Kong and the United States before returning to Australia.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> She graduated from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_New_South_Wales" title="University of New South Wales">University of New South Wales</a> with a Bachelor of Arts and <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Laws" title="Bachelor of Laws">Bachelor of Laws</a>, and later with a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Laws" title="Master of Laws">Master of Laws</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Melbourne" title="University of Melbourne">University of Melbourne</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> She has worked as a legal officer or lawyer for organisations such as the <a href="/wiki/Kimberley_Land_Council" title="Kimberley Land Council">Kimberley Land Council</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Children%27s_Television_Foundation" title="Australian Children's Television Foundation">Australian Children's Television Foundation</a>, and served on the boards of the <a href="/wiki/Back_to_Back_Theatre" title="Back to Back Theatre">Back to Back Theatre</a> company and the <a href="/wiki/National_Theatre,_Melbourne" title="National Theatre, Melbourne">National Theatre</a> in St Kilda.<sup id="cite_ref-nattheatre_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nattheatre-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Just prior to her election, she was head of the legal dispute resolution team at the <a href="/wiki/Australia_and_New_Zealand_Banking_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Australia and New Zealand Banking Group">ANZ Banking Group</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-unipollwatch_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unipollwatch-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kilkenny lives in her electorate of Carrum.<sup id="cite_ref-green14_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-green14-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sonya_Kilkenny&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kilkenny contested the federal <a href="/wiki/Division_of_Dunkley" title="Division of Dunkley">Division of Dunkley</a> for Labor at the <a href="/wiki/2013_Australian_federal_election" title="2013 Australian federal election">2013 federal election</a>. Despite her party's incumbency,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> she lost to <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia" title="Liberal Party of Australia">Liberal</a> <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Billson" title="Bruce Billson">Bruce Billson</a> with a two-party swing of -4.53 per cent.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kilkenny first entered parliament at the <a href="/wiki/2014_Victorian_state_election" title="2014 Victorian state election">2014 Victorian state election</a> when she narrowly won the seat off the Liberal incumbent, before holding the seat at the <a href="/wiki/2018_Victorian_state_election" title="2018 Victorian state election">2018 Victorian state election</a> with an 11.2 per cent swing, one of the biggest swings in the election.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kilkenny served on the Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee and was an Acting Speaker in the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Legislative_Assembly" title="Victorian Legislative Assembly">Legislative Assembly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 29 November 2018, Kilkenny was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education and in 2020 appointed Cabinet Secretary.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kilkenny was appointed as <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Corrections_(Victoria)" title="Minister for Corrections (Victoria)">Minister for Corrections</a>, Minister for Youth Justice, Minister for Victim Support and Minister for Fishing and Boating as part of a June 2022 cabinet reshuffle.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was sworn in on 4 July,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a week after the rest of the cabinet, due to isolating after contracting <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ministers_Harriet_Shing_and_Sonya_Kilkenny_at_Melbourne_Press_Club_event_-_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Ministers_Harriet_Shing_and_Sonya_Kilkenny_at_Melbourne_Press_Club_event_-_1.jpg/220px-Ministers_Harriet_Shing_and_Sonya_Kilkenny_at_Melbourne_Press_Club_event_-_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Ministers_Harriet_Shing_and_Sonya_Kilkenny_at_Melbourne_Press_Club_event_-_1.jpg/330px-Ministers_Harriet_Shing_and_Sonya_Kilkenny_at_Melbourne_Press_Club_event_-_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Ministers_Harriet_Shing_and_Sonya_Kilkenny_at_Melbourne_Press_Club_event_-_1.jpg/440px-Ministers_Harriet_Shing_and_Sonya_Kilkenny_at_Melbourne_Press_Club_event_-_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5627" data-file-height="3751" /></a><figcaption>Kilkenny (right) talks with Minister for Housing <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Shing" title="Harriet Shing">Harriet Shing</a> at a <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Press_Club" title="Melbourne Press Club">Melbourne Press Club</a> event in October 2024.</figcaption></figure> <p>On 5 December 2022, Kilkenny was sworn in as the <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Planning_(Victoria)" title="Minister for Planning (Victoria)">Minister for Planning</a> and the Minister for Outdoor Recreation.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2023, Kilkenny was appointed as Minister for the Suburbs, in addition to continuing as Planning Minister.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sonya_Kilkenny&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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