Tanya Plibersek

The Honourable Tanya Plibersek MP
Official portrait, 2022
Minister for the Environment and Water
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 June 2022
Prime Minister	Anthony Albanese
Preceded by	Sussan Ley
Deputy Leader of the Opposition
In office 14 October 2013 – 30 May 2019
Leader	Bill Shorten
Preceded by	Julie Bishop
Succeeded by	Richard Marles
Deputy Leader of the Labor Party
In office 14 October 2013 – 30 May 2019
Leader	Bill Shorten
Preceded by	Anthony Albanese
Succeeded by	Richard Marles
Minister for Health and Medical Research
In office 14 December 2011 – 18 September 2013
Prime Minister	Julia Gillard Kevin Rudd
Preceded by	Nicola Roxon
Succeeded by	Peter Dutton
Minister for Human Services
In office 14 September 2010 – 14 December 2011
Prime Minister	Julia Gillard
Preceded by	Chris Bowen
Succeeded by	Brendan O'Connor
Minister for Social Inclusion
In office 14 September 2010 – 14 December 2011
Prime Minister	Julia Gillard
Preceded by	Simon Crean
Succeeded by	Mark Butler
Minister for Housing
In office 3 December 2007 – 14 September 2010
Prime Minister	Kevin Rudd Julia Gillard
Preceded by	Brian Howe (1996)
Succeeded by	Mark Arbib
Minister for the Status of Women
In office 3 December 2007 – 14 September 2010
Prime Minister	Kevin Rudd Julia Gillard
Preceded by	Julie Bishop
Succeeded by	Kate Ellis
Member of Parliament for Sydney
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 October 1998
Preceded by	Peter Baldwin
Personal details
Born	Tanya Joan Plibersek (1969-12-02) 2 December 1969 (age 55) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Political party	Labor
Spouse	Michael Coutts-Trotter ​ ​ (m. 2000)​
Alma mater	University of Technology Sydney Macquarie University
Occupation	Politician
Signature
Website	www.tanyaplibersek.com

Tanya Joan Plibersek^[a] (born 2 December 1969) is an Australian politician who has been Minister for the Environment and Water in the Albanese government since 2022. She was deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2013 to 2019 and has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sydney since 1998. She previously held ministerial office in the Rudd and Gillard governments.

Plibersek was born in Sydney to Slovenian immigrant parents and grew up in Sutherland Shire. She has degrees from the University of Technology Sydney and Macquarie University, and worked in the NSW Government's Domestic Violence Unit before entering parliament. Plibersek was elected to the Division of Sydney at the 1998 federal election, aged 28. She joined the shadow cabinet in 2004, and when Labor won the 2007 election was made Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women.

In a cabinet reshuffle in 2010, Plibersek was made Minister for Human Services and Minister for Social Inclusion. She was promoted to Minister for Health the following year, and held that position until Labor's defeat at the 2013 election. Plibersek was then elected as deputy to new ALP leader Bill Shorten. Plibersek served as deputy opposition leader until Labor's defeat at the 2019 Australian federal election. She was subsequently made shadow minister for education under new opposition leader Anthony Albanese. Upon Labor's victory at the 2022 Australian federal election, she was appointed Minister for the Environment and Water. She is a senior figure in the Labor Left faction.
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