Claire Chandler

Claire Chandler (born 1 June 1990) is an Australian politician who was elected as a Senator for Tasmania at the 2019 federal election. She is a member of the Liberal Party, and is currently serving as the Shadow Minister for Finance and Government Services.

Early life Chandler grew up in the Huon Valley and attended St Michael's Collegiate, a Hobart private school for girls. She studied Arts and Law at the University of Tasmania where her interest in politics was furthered. At university she was a member of the University of Tasmania Liberal Club where she met her future husband Chris Edwards. Chandler later joined the Young Liberals and served as both the Tasmanian Division President, and Federal President.

After university, Chandler worked as an analyst in the Hobart office of Deloitte Risk Advisory from 2014 to 2016, as a senior analyst from 2016 to 2018, and as a client manager from 2018 to 2019. She worked at Deloitte until the 2019 election. but rejected the idea of gender quotas as a solution to fix the divide.

Chandler stood as a candidate for the seat of Franklin at the 2018 Tasmanian state election but was unsuccessful. Following the state election, she was preselected in the second position on the Liberal Party's Senate ticket in Tasmania on 9 September 2018, and was elected to the Senate at the 2019 federal election, for a term beginning on 1 July 2019. and is a conservative. In February 2022, Chandler introduced the Sex Discrimination and Other Legislation Amendment (Save Women's Sport) Bill 2022 to the Parliament of Australia.

Chandler also campaigns against the use of anti-discrimination laws and taxpayer funds to suppress free speech by those she calls "the woke".