Emma McBride

Emma Margaret McBride (born 27 April 1975) is an Australian politician. She was elected as the member for Dobell in the Australian House of Representatives in the 2016 election after having been an unsuccessful candidate for the same seat in the 2013 election.

Early life McBride was born in Sydney on 27 April 1975. She is the second of eight children born to Barbara and Grant McBride. Her paternal grandfather was born in Northern Ireland, and she obtained Irish citizenship by descent in 2001 but renounced it prior to standing for parliament in 2013. As a child, McBride lived for periods in Western Sydney, the Inner West, Nauru, and the Central Coast. Her father was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1992.

McBride completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney and a graduate diploma in public sector management at Flinders University. She was defeated by the Liberal candidate Karen McNamara at the 2013 federal election, but reprised her candidacy in 2016 and was successful. She was re-appointed to the same roles in the second Albanese ministry after the Labor government's re-election at the 2025 federal election.