Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Lizzie Blandthorn | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLC |
Office: | Deputy Leader of the Government in the Victorian Legislative Council |
Premier: | Daniel Andrews |
Leader: | Jaclyn Symes |
Term Start: | 5 December 2022 |
Predecessor: | Gayle Tierney |
Office1: | Leader of the House |
Premier1: | Daniel Andrews |
Term Start1: | 27 June 2022 |
Term End1: | 5 December 2022 |
Predecessor1: | Jacinta Allan |
Office2: | Minister for Disability |
Premier2: | Jacinta Allan |
Term Start2: | 2 October 2023 |
Predecessor2: | Herself (as Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers) |
Office3: | Minister for Children |
Premier3: | Jacinta Allan |
Term Start3: | 2 October 2023 |
Predecessor3: | Herself (as Minister for Child Protection and Family Services) |
Office4: | Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers |
Premier4: | Daniel Andrews |
Term Start4: | 5 December 2022 |
Term End4: | 2 October 2023 |
Predecessor4: | Colin Brooks |
Successor4: | Herself (as Minister for Disability) Ingrid Stitt (as Minister for Ageing) Ros Spence (as Minister for Carers and Volunteers) |
Office5: | Minister for Child Protection and Family Services |
Premier5: | Daniel Andrews |
Term Start5: | 5 December 2022 |
Term End5: | 2 October 2023 |
Predecessor5: | Colin Brooks |
Successor5: | Herself (as Minister for Children) |
Premier6: | Daniel Andrews |
Term Start6: | 27 June 2022 |
Term End6: | 5 December 2022 |
Predecessor6: | Richard Wynne |
Office7: | Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Western Metropolitan Region |
Term Start7: | 26 November 2022 |
Assembly8: | Victorian Legislative |
Constituency Am8: | Pascoe Vale |
Term Start8: | 29 November 2014 |
Term End8: | 26 November 2022 |
Predecessor8: | Christine Campbell |
Birth Date: | 1977 8, df=y |
Party: | Labor |
Elizabeth Anne Blandthorn (born 1 August 1977) is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing the Western Metropolitan Region since November 2022, and previously served as the member for the Electoral district of Pascoe Vale in the Victorian Legislative Assembly between November 2014 and November 2022. She is a member of the Labor Party.[1]
Between June and December 2022, Blandthorn has served as the Minister for Planning in the Second Andrews ministry, as well as the Leader of the House in the Legislative Assembly.[2] After her shift to the upper house at the 2022 state election, in December 2022, she was appointed the Minister for Child Protection and Family Services and Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers in the Third Andrews ministry, as well as the Deputy Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council.[3]
She held the position of General Secretary in the National Union of Students in 2001.[4] She was both a god-daughter and former political staffer to Christine Campbell, the previous member for Pascoe Vale.[5]