member of the Australian House of Representatives
Which position did Chris Gallus hold from Mar 1990 to Feb 1998?
Chris Gallus Christine Ann Gallus ( born 6 April 1943 ) is a former Australian politician who served as a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2004 , representing two different seats in South Australia—the Division of Hawker from 1990 to 1993 and the Division of Hindmarsh from 1993 to 2004 . She was born in Adelaide and was educated at the Firbank Girls Grammar School in Melbourne , Flinders University and the Australian National University . She was a researcher with the South Australian Health Commission , an advertising executive , journalist and small business director before entering politics . Gallus was first elected to the seat of Hawker , based on Glenelg and the Holdfast Bay area , at the 1990 election , defeating one-term Labor incumbent Elizabeth Harvey on a razor-edge 50.01 percent two-party vote from a 1.2 percent two-party swing . Had just 14 Australian Democrats supporters ranked Harvey higher than Gallus on next preferences , Harvey would have won . Hawker was abolished ahead of the 1993 federal election . Most of its territory , including Glenelg , was absorbed into neighbouring Hindmarsh , and Gallus opted to follow most of her constituents there . Hindmarsh had long been a Labor stronghold , but had grown increasingly marginal over the last decade . Largely due to the addition of Holdfast Bay , Labors already thin majority of 5.3 percent was pared back even further , to an extremely marginal 1.2 percent . Additionally , the election was called at a bad time for the state Labor government , which was still reeling from the collapse of the State Bank of South Australia . Indeed , the state Labor government would be heavily defeated at a state election later that year . Gallus took a substantial first-count lead and ultimately won on the eighth count , becoming only the second non-Labor MP ever to win the seat and the first since 1917 . To date , it is also the only time that Labor has been in government without holding Hindmarsh . In the last couple of years of the Liberal Partys time in Opposition , which ended in 1996 , Gallus was Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs , in which she was seen as an effective opponent against Aboriginal Affairs Minister Robert Tickner when she attacked his credibility over the Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy . The controversy over the Hindmarsh Island bridge was believed to have cost Tickner his seat at the 1996 election . Despite this she was not picked for a place in the ministry by new Liberal Prime Minister John Howard . Gallus did , however , become Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs in 2001 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs 2001–04 . Gallus gained a large swing in the 1996 election , technically making Hindmarsh a safe Liberal seat . However , she had to withstand strong challenges from Labors Steve Georganas in the next two elections . Gallus retired at the 2004 election and was replaced as the Liberal candidate by Simon Birmingham , who lost the seat to Georganas by just 108 votes .