Profession Solicitor Name Madeleine Ogilvie | Role Barrister | |
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Alma mater University of TasmaniaUniversity of Melbourne Education | ||
Political party Australian Labor Party | ||
Madeleine Ruth Ogilvie (born 25 January 1969) is an Australian barrister and solicitor and politician from Hobart, Tasmania. She was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Australian Labor Party in the Division of Denison at the 2014 state election.
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Education and legal career
Ogilvie grew up in Lenah Valley and attended Roseneath Primary School, The Friends' School, and Hobart College. She was a keen netballer in her youth and represented Tasmania. She studied Classics, Philosophy and History graduating from the University of Melbourne (BA). Ogilvie was resident at Ormond College. She graduated in law (LLB) from the University of Tasmania Law School (1993) and later studied at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of New South Wales. After working for several years in Australia for Allens and CSIRO Division of Minerals, Ogilvie worked for UNESCO in France on international cultural heritage law, Indonesia on telecommunications infrastructure projects, and the United States of America, in Silicon Valley. Ogilvie was a General Manager Commercial & Contracts with Telstra Corporation responsible for some of Australia's largest telecommunications deals. Ogilvie returned to Hobart, Tasmania to raise her family.
In 2006 she established a legal practice in Hobart, Ogilvie & Associates, now Madeleine Ogilvie & Co Lawyers. Ogilvie is known for her advocacy of refugee rights.
Political career
Ogilvie first stood for election to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the 2010 state election. She received 522 first preference votes, but was not elected.
She was elected at the March 2014 election, receiving 2,156 votes and being the fifth of five candidates elected for the Denison division under the state's Hare-Clark system. Ogilvie was the only new Labor member elected in an election that saw the Labor Party lose government and several seats.
Following the 2014 election, Ogilvie was appointed Shadow Minister for Corrections, Aboriginal Affairs, Small Business, and Information Technology and Innovation, as well as being appointed Labor's Spokesperson for Multicultural Affairs and Opposition Whip.
Ogilvie briefly made local headlines in December 2015 after voting, in a free vote, against a Tasmanian Greens party motion supporting marriage equality on the basis that it is a federal legislative reform, and in particular her online reaction to the Left Faction of the Tasmanian Labor party drawing a chalk rainbow outside her electorate office and writing defamatory messages on her office. Members of the Left called for Ogilvie to be expelled from the party for not supporting the Greens motion.
Personal life
Ogilvie is the granddaughter of former Member of the House of Assembly Eric Ogilvie, great-niece of former Premier of Tasmania Albert Ogilvie and stepdaughter of former Governor of Tasmania Peter Underwood.