predecessor successor parliament constituency_mp nationality party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
ralph jacobi christine gallus australian hawker australian australian labor party 19 october 1946 11 july 1987 elizabeth harvey
 24 march 1990 elizabeth harvey
elizabeth harvey

elizabeth robyn harvey -lrb- born 19 october 1946 -rrb- is an australian politician .
she was an australian labor party member of the australian house of representatives from 1987 to 1990 .
harvey won the division of hawker as the labor candidate at the 1987 federal election .
harvey was defeated for the same seat by liberal christine gallus at the 1990 federal election by an extremely narrow 14 votes .
it was the only time the labor party ever lost the electorate of hawker , which was based in the inner southern suburbs of adelaide , south australia .
the electorate has since been abolished .
elizabeth has since worked as a ministerial staffer , public servant , teacher and writer .
she has published on a blog her novel , `` snowflake 's hope '' , a fictionalised account of her experiences as a federal mp .
