Preceded by David Watson Occupation Teacher Succeeded by Kay Elson Name Mary Crawford | Nationality Australian Role Mansfield Park Creator Jane Austen | |
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Born 12 April 1947 (age 76)
Toowoomba, Queensland ( 1947-04-12 ) Alma mater University of Queensland Played by Embeth Davidtz, Jackie Smith-Wood, Hayley Atwell Similar Henry Crawford, Fanny Price, Edmund Bertram, Maria Bertram, Thomas Bertram | ||
Political party Australian Labor Party | ||
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Mary Catherine Crawford (born 12 April 1947) was an Australian politician. Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, she was educated at the University of Queensland before becoming a teacher. In 1987, she was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Forde. On 25 March 1994 she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Housing and Regional Development, a position she held until the defeat of the Keating Government in the 1996 election, in which Crawford lost her seat. Crawford had previously held her seat with a fairly safe majority of 8.6 percent. However, a redistribution ahead of the election pushed Forde into some rural, conservative-leaning territory in the Scenic Rim. This wiped out Crawford's majority, reducing it to an extremely marginal 0.1 percent. Believing that this made Forde difficult—if not impossible—to hold, Crawford tried to transfer to the friendlier seat of Rankin, but was rebuffed by the party's organisational wing. She was defeated by Liberal Kay Elson on a nine-percent swing.