Shadow Minister for Environment, Heritage, the Arts and Indigenous Affairs
Biography
Dr Stone has been Federal Member for Murray since being elected in 1996.
Dr Stone was Minister for Workforce Participation from January 2006 to November 2007.
Dr Stone previously served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance and Administration from October 2004 until January 2006.
Her first ministerial appointment was as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage from 1998 to 2004.
Before entering Parliament in 1996 as the Member for the Victorian seat of Murray, Dr Stone was Manager of International Development at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Stone holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in anthropology from Monash University, a Master of Arts in sociology from La Trobe University, a Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education from Hawthorn CAE and a Ph.D. in economics and business from Monash University.
In Parliament, Dr Stone has pursued a wide range of social, regional and indigenous issues, including serving on the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation from 1997 to 2000, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Primary Industries, Resources and Rural and Regional Affairs from 1996 to 1998, the Joint Statutory Public Accounts Committee from 1996 to 1998, and the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from 1997 to 1998.
Dr Stone has been the Patron of the Goulburn Valley Vietnam Veterans since 1998 and the Goulburn Valley National Servicemen since 2000.
Dr Stone has authorised or co-written a number of books, including Aborigines in White Australia: A Documentary History of the Attitudes Affecting Official Policy and the Australian Aborigines 1697-1973 and published journal articles and papers on environmental and rural issues, cultural and fiscal policy, water law and conservation.