Vickie Chapman

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Vickie Chapman
MP
Deputy Leader of the Opposition (SA)
Assumed office
4 February 2013
Leader Steven Marshall
Preceded by Steven Marshall
In office
30 March 2006 – 4 July 2009
Leader Iain Evans
Martin Hamilton-Smith
Preceded by Iain Evans
Succeeded by Isobel Redmond
Member of the South Australian Parliament
for Bragg
Assumed office
9 February 2002
Preceded by Graham Ingerson
Personal details
Born Vickie Ann Chapman
(1957-06-21) 21 June 1957 (age 66)
Kangaroo Island, Australia
Nationality Australian
Political party Liberal Party of Australia (SA)
Relations Ted Chapman (father)
Education University of Adelaide
Profession Barrister

Vickie Ann Chapman (born 21 June 1957) is an Australian politician, representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Bragg for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2002 election. She was Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 30 March 2006 until 4 July 2009 and returned to that position on 4 February 2013. She is also the Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for State Development, having gained the extra portfolio of State Development in a cabinet reshuffle on 13 January 2016.

Early life

Chapman was born in Kangaroo Island. One of seven children, Chapman attended Parndana Area School, and later attended Pembroke School in Adelaide following the death of her mother at age 12. She studied a law degree at the University of Adelaide and graduated in 1979 as a barrister.

Chapman's father, Ted, was a member of the Liberal and Country League and then the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the South Australian House of Assembly. A Liberal moderate, Ted was a member of the Steele Hall-led Liberal Movement faction in the 1970s and Agriculture Minister in the David Tonkin government. As a young girl, Chapman assisted her father in Liberal campaigns for office.

Politics

At one stage the Liberal Party state president, Chapman attempted to win Liberal preselection for the federal division of Barker in 1998. Her husband, David, died in 2001 and she moved from Wayville to Tusmore with her two children. She again tried to win preselection, this time in the blue-ribbon seat of Bragg, located in Adelaide's wealthy eastern suburbs. When sitting member Graham Ingerson resigned, Chapman contested pre-selection against Liberal minister Michael Armitage, who was seeking to move from his marginal seat of Adelaide. Chapman easily gained preselection, and handily retained the seat at the 2002 state election even as the Liberals narrowly lost government. She was soon touted, both within her party and in the media, as a future Liberal leader. In other quarters, however, Chapman was seen as failing to live up to expectations on the floor of the house.

Following the defeat of the Kerin government, Chapman attained the shadow portfolios of Education and Children's Services. After the Liberals were soundly defeated in the 2006 election, Chapman was elected to the deputy leadership of the party in an unexpected joint ticket with factional rival Iain Evans. Strong backing was received from moderate faction bosses: former Premier Dean Brown and federal Member for Sturt Christopher Pyne. Pyne remains a close ally of Chapman.[1]

Liberal leader Martin Hamilton-Smith called a leadership and deputy leadership spill for 4 July 2009. Chapman ran against Hamilton-Smith for the leadership, but received 10 votes, against Hamilton-Smith's 11, with one MP former leader Iain Evans abstaining. Isobel Redmond was elected to the deputy leadership to replace Chapman.[2] Hamilton-Smith called another leadership spill to take place on 8 July 2009, in an attempt to gain a more decisive mandate, but two days prior to the spill, he announced he would not run. Redmond won the leadership, 13–9, against Chapman, with Steven Griffiths being elected deputy leader, 8–6, against Mitch Williams.[3]

Despite having attempted to oust Hamilton-Smith as leader in 2009, Chapman voted for Hamilton-Smith in his successful bid as deputy leader on 31 March 2010 in a party room vote held after the Liberal Party's loss at the recent State election. Chapman voting Hamilton-Smith as deputy was because Hamilton-Smith's opponent for the deputy's job was another former leader and Chapman's factional rival Iain Evans.[4]

She was reappointed deputy opposition leader on 4 February 2013 and ruled out challenging new leader Steven Marshall.[5]

Chapman suffered a 1.5-point two-party swing against her, reduced to a margin of 18.7 points in Bragg at the 2014 state election, with two-party swings against her of up to 12 points in some booths.[6][7]

References

  • Parliament of South Australia, MP Profile
  • The Liberal leadership; The Advertiser (Adelaide). 12 October 2005.
  • Vickie's island in the suburbs. Sunday Mail (Adelaide). 2 January 2005.
  • Vickie Chapman: The woman most likely. The Advertiser (Adelaide). 26 October 2002.
  • Chapman in the front line. The Advertiser (Adelaide). 25 April 2002.
  • Libs line up in battle for blue-ribbon seat of Bragg. The Advertiser (Adelaide) 15 January 2001.
  1. ↑ South Australia’s 10 most poisonous political feuds: The Advertiser 21 May 2014
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  4. ↑ http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/libs-crunch-numbers-ahead-of-spill/story-e6frea6u-1225846958945
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ 2014 Bragg booth results: ECSA
  7. ↑ 2010 Bragg booth results: ECSA
Political offices
Preceded by Deputy Leader of the Opposition in South Australia
2013 – present		 Incumbent
Preceded by Deputy Leader of the Opposition in South Australia
2006 – 2009		 Succeeded by
Isobel Redmond
Parliament of South Australia
Preceded by Member for Bragg
2002–present		 Incumbent
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