Sophie Mirabella

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sophie Mirabella
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Oct 27, 1968(1968-10-27)
Age	56
Birthplace	Melbourne
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Libra

Sophie Mirabella Biography

Sophie Mirabella is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on October 27, 1968 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Mirabella is the daughter of Sophie Panopoulos in Melbourne, Victoria Her parents had moved to Australia in 1956 from Greece around 1956. She attended St Catherine’s Schoolin Toorak and was employed part-time at her father’s dairy restaurant located in South Melbourne. When she finished secondary school, she enrolled at Melbourne’s University of Melbourne where she was a law student and became active in student activism through an organization called the Melbourne University Liberal Club, of which she served as president and Vice-President for the Australian Liberal Student Federation. After having graduated of Melbourne University with degrees in commerce and law, Mirabella worked as a solicitor and articled clerk between 1995 and 1997. From 1998 until her election to Parliament, she was barrister.

In June 2006 she was married Greg Mirabella, a former Australian Army Reserve officer still working in the defense industry. They have two daughters.

In 2007 the Coalition lost the federal election and entered opposition. After the election, Mirabella was promoted to the role of Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Local Government under the leadership of Brendan Nelson. While serving in that role, she attracted controversy in January 2008 when she launched an attack on former Liberal Party Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, after a speech he gave at Melbourne University on “the Bush Administration (reversing) 60 years of progress in establishing a law-based international system”, claiming errors and “either intellectual sloppiness or deliberate dishonesty”, and that he tacitly supported Islamic fundamentalism, should have no influence on foreign policy, and that his stance on the war on terror has left him open to caricature as a “frothing-at-the-mouth leftie”. She was also one of five Liberal MPs not present in February 2008, when a motion was passed unanimously apologising to the stolen generations of indigenous children between Federation and the 1970s. She explained her decision by asserting that there had never been a formal policy in Victoria of removing children from their families and that there is no evidence for any “truly stolen” children, despite the fact that the first laws passed giving authorities the right to take children from their parents were passed and used in Victoria.

Within the federal government, Mirabella sat in the backbench until 2007. During this time, in 2005, she attracted public attention as a key member of an informal “ginger group” of Liberal backbenchers. She chaired this group with Victorian Senator Mitch Fifield. The group argued for “tax reform” (in essence, tax cuts paid for by reductions in government spending), sparking public debate on the topic. Although Fifield stepped away from the group after budget cuts in 2005, Mirabella continued for a time as the group’s chair. While on the backbench, Mirabella took a strong stance on the prominent issue of asylum seekers, criticising a group of four fellow Liberal backbenchers, including Petro Georgiou and Judi Moylan, for opposing government policy on mandatory detention. In August 2005, she called for Muslim women to be required to remove their head dress when posing for photo identification. Mirabella was an advocate of voluntary student unionism (VSU) and strongly supported the legislation proposed by Brendan Nelson.

The year 1995 was the first time she entered into an intimate relationship Colin Howard, then dean of law at Melbourne University, who was forty years older than her. This relationship came to an end in the year 2001 but they remained close until his passing in 2011. The relationship between her and Howard became the focus of an argument among Mirabella and Howard’s adult children , who raised questions about Mirabella’s care and treatment of their father during the days that led to a severe disease in the latter part of 2008, when Howard had been diagnosed as having Alzheimer’s. Mirabella was the holder of a the power of attorney for Howard’s affairs since early 2007 and in accordance with his will of 1997, she was the sole executor and beneficiary of his estate after his demise in the year 2011.

Sophie Mirabella Net Worth

Sophie Mirabella is one of the richest Lawyer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sophie Mirabella 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sophie Mirabella (nee Panopoulos; born on the 27th of October, 1968) is an Australian lawyer and political figure who served as a Liberal Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 2001 until 2013, and was a member of in the Division from Indi, Victoria.

Mirabella has been a part of the Liberal Party since 1987. Mirabella became famous during the constitutional monarchy/republican controversy in Australia in which she was an advocate of the idea of preserving the constitutional monarchy. She was elected to at the time of 1998’s Constitutional Convention. The subsequent referendum was a success for all states, and most Australians agree with the decision to retain an constitutional monarchy, rather than the republican one that was presented. In 2001, Mirabella won the preselection of her Liberal contender to replace Lou Lieberman as the Member for Indi in opposition to Sussan Ley. She was able to win during the 2001 federal election by a margin of 61.15 percent on a bi-partisan preferred basis. Mirabella had a higher than average 5.6 percent increase in her vote during the 2004 federal election that gave her 66.3 percent of the two-party preferred vote , giving Indi an extremely secure Liberal seat.

According to Fenella Souter in the Sydney Morning Herald, Mirabella is known for her “caustic, confrontational manner”. Her behaviour led her to be ejected from parliament at least twice. In 2007, David Hawker expelled her for shouting at him after being warned twice to resume her seat. She defied parliamentary orders under Standing Order No. 94A and thus was removed from the House of Representatives for misconduct. In 2010, Peter Slipper expelled Mirabella from parliament for 24 hours on the eve of the vote on the carbon tax, when she “refused to accept a ruling barring her from tabling an anti- carbon tax petition”.

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Who is Sophie Mirabella Dating?

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Mirabella appeared as a panellist on the ABC TV talkback show Q&A on a number of occasions. On one show in 2012 a fellow panellist (GetUp! director and unsuccessful Greens Senate candidate Simon Sheikh) had a seizure live on air, with his head falling forward on the desk. Mirabella was criticised for not responding to his situation, other than to look at the unconscious man with a look of repulsion. A spokesperson for Mirabella said she was unaware it was a medical emergency. Of the panelists, only Greg Combet physically responded to the situation. Sheikh made a full recovery off camera.

Facts & Trivia

Sophie Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Sophie Mirabella celebrates birthday on October 27 of every year.

On 18 September 2013, Mirabella conceded defeat, the same day Abbott and his government were sworn in.