Christine Tonkin

Christine Maelisa Tonkin (born 15 March 1956)

Career Tonkin is an expert in public procurement reform, having worked in it for 25 years, including for the United Nations in places such as Denmark, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Austria and Bangladesh.

She joined the WA Labor Party on 13 July 2015. Churchlands and its predecessor, Floreat (as the seat was called from its creation in 1966 until 1996) had historically been blue-ribbon Liberal territory, but was swept up in the massive Labor wave that left the Liberals with only one seat in Perth.