Madeleine King MP

Madeleine King MP
Shadow Minister for Trade
 
Madeleine King was elected to Federal Parliament in 2016 and has been recently promoted to the front bench of the Albanese Opposition as Shadow Minister for Trade.
 
She has previously held the positions of Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs, Shadow Minister Assisting for Small Business and Shadow Minister Assisting for Resources.
 
Ms King has strong personal links with her House of Representatives seat of Brand, which includes the towns of Rockingham and Kwinana, having grown up in the area and attended local public schools.
 
She worked as a solicitor in private practice, before moving into the higher education sector as a lawyer and then as Chief of Staff at The University of Western Australia.
 
Before entering the Parliament, Madeleine was the founding executive and Chief Operating Officer of the Perth USAsia Centre from 2012-16. In her leadership of the Perth USAsia Centre, Ms King helped to bring a unique Western Australian perspective to the international discussion on Australia’s role in the emerging Indo-Pacific region