Anne Urquhart

Anne Elizabeth Urquhart (; born 18 October 1957) is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2025, representing the seat of Braddon. She previously served as a Senator for Tasmania from 2011 to 2025. She was a senior official with the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) prior to entering politics.

Early life Urquhart was born in Latrobe, Tasmania, the second of three children born to Tom and Betty Polden. After starting a family with her husband Graham, in July 1980 she began working as a process worker at the Edgell-Birds Eye factory in Ulverstone, which was later taken over by Simplot Australia.

Urquhart joined the Food Preservers' Union of Australia, initially serving as a delegate and then from August 1990 as a full-time organiser. Her union was later merged into the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU),

Politics Urquhart served as a vice-president of the Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) from 2004 and as a delegate to the ALP National Conference. She was re-elected to further six-year terms in 2016 (following a double dissolution) and 2022. She has served on a variety of committees during her time in the Senate. She has been the Labor Party's chief whip in the Senate since 2016, having previously served as a deputy whip from 2013 to 2016. After the ALP's victory at the 2022 election she became chief government whip and was also made chair of the selection of bills committee. She won the seat for the Labor Party with a double digit swing to become an MP.