Editing Sharman Stone

{{Short description|Australian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Honourable]]
| name                = Dr Sharman Stone
| image               = Sharman Stone 2017.jpg
| office              = [[List of Australian special interests Ambassadors and Envoys|Ambassador of Australia for Women and Girls]]
| term_start          = 21 November 2016
| term_end            = 8 March 2020
| predecessor         = [[Natasha Stott Despoja]]
| successor           = [[Julie-Ann Guivarra]]
| constituency_MP1    = [[Division of Murray|Murray]]
| parliament1         = Australian
| predecessor1        = [[Bruce Lloyd]]
| successor1          = [[Damian Drum]]
| term_start1         = 2 March 1996
| term_end1           = 9 May 2016
| office2             = [[Minister for Employment Participation (Australia)|Minister for Workforce Participation]]
| term_start2         = 27 January 2006
| term_end2           = 3 December 2007
| primeminister2      = [[John Howard]]
| predecessor2        = [[Peter Dutton]]
| successor2          = [[Brendan O'Connor (politician)|Brendan O'Connor]]
| birth_name          = Sharman Nancy Bawden
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1951|4|23}}
| birth_place         = {{VICcity|Pyramid Hill}}, Victoria, Australia
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| nationality         = 
| spouse              = [[Douglas Maxwell Stone|Doug Stone]] <small>(divorced)</small>
| party               = [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]
| relations           = 
| children            = 3
| residence           = 
| alma_mater          = {{unbulleted list|[[Monash University]]|[[La Trobe University]]}}
| occupation          = Farmer
| profession          = 
| religion            = 
| signature           = 
| website             = 
| footnotes           = 
| honorific_suffix    = {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|size=100%}}
}}
'''Sharman Nancy Stone''' {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (née '''Bawden'''; born 23 April 1951) is a former Australian politician who represented [[Division of Murray|Murray]] in the [[Australian House of Representatives]] between March 1996 and July 2016 as a member of the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]]. She subsequently served as the Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls from when [[Natasha Stott Despoja]] stepped down from the role in late 2016<ref>{{cite press release|last1=Bishop|first1=Julie|last2=Cash| first2=Michaelia |author-link2=Michaelia Cash|title=Ambassador for Women and Girls|url=http://foreignminister.gov.au/releases/Pages/2016/jb_mr_161121.aspx|publisher=Australian Government|date=21 November 2016}}</ref> until 2020.

==Background==
Stone was born in [[Pyramid Hill, Victoria|Pyramid Hill]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], the daughter of Harvey Bawden and Nancy Chalmers. She graduated from [[Monash University]] with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), from [[La Trobe University]] with a Master of Arts, from Hawthorn College of Advanced Education with a Graduate Diploma of Education, and was awarded a [[PhD]] by Monash<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=[[Monash University]] |title=Sharman Stone Alumni Profile|url=https://www.monash.edu/arts/alumni/our-alumni/meet-our-alumni/sharman-stone |access-date=18 November 2024 |language=en-US }}</ref>
. She was Manager of International Development at the [[University of Melbourne]], Director of Communications at the [[Victorian Farmers Federation]], and a farmer before entering politics.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stone, Sharman Nancy (1951 - ) |work=The Australian Women's Register |url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0202b.htm |publisher=The National Foundation for Australian Women; [[The University of Melbourne]] |date=19 January 2016 |accessdate=23 July 2016 |author=Heywood, Anne }}</ref>

==Political career==
Elected to federal parliament at the [[1996 Australian federal election|1996 federal election]], Stone was appointed [[Parliamentary Secretary]] to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage in October 1998. Following the re-election of the [[Howard government]] in October 2004, she became Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance and Administration. On 27 January 2006 she was appointed [[Minister for Employment Participation (Australia)|Minister for Workforce Participation]], succeeding [[Peter Dutton]].

After the defeat of the Howard government in November 2007, Stone took up the role of [[Shadow Cabinet|Shadow Minister]] for Environment, Heritage, the Arts and Indigenous Affairs. Following [[Malcolm Turnbull]]'s defeat of Brendan Nelson for the leadership of the Liberal Party, and the retirement of Senator Chris Ellison, Stone became Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship in the subsequent reshuffle. Stone announced her retirement from politics on 26 March 2016,<ref name="stone">{{cite news|title=Sharman Stone: Liberal MP for Murray retires from politics after 20 years|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-26/sharman-stone-murray-victoria-standing-down-from-politics/7277610|accessdate=26 March 2016 |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |date=26 March 2016}}</ref> which took effect from the [[double dissolution]] of the Australian Parliament on 9 May, in advance of the [[2016 Australian federal election|2016 federal election]] on 2 July.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/IPS/Documents%20relating%20to%20calling%20of%20the%20double%20dissolution%20election.pdf|title=Documents Relating To The Calling Of The Double Dissolution Election For 2 July 2016|work=Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia|date=8 May 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508072551/https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/IPS/Documents%20relating%20to%20calling%20of%20the%20double%20dissolution%20election.pdf|archivedate=8 May 2016}}</ref>

==Author==
Stone is an author of numerous publications on race relations, environment and geology (with [[Douglas Maxwell Stone|Doug Stone]]) among others, including ''[[Aborigines in White Australia]]'' (London and Melbourne, 1974).

Stone was appointed a [[Order of Australia|Member of the Order of Australia]] in the [[2024 Australia Day Honours]] for "significant service to the people and Parliament of Australia, and to the community through executive positions".<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Honourable Dr Sharman Nancy Stone |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/3017066 |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{BLP sources|date=August 2007}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060920215533/https://www.latrobe.edu.au/alumni/profiles/stone.html La Trobe University Alumni Graduate Profiles]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060826113944/http://www.latrobe.edu.au/agoramagazine/politics/article1.html "Pioneer to politics by Catherine Naghten"], ''[[Agora]]'' – The Magazine for [[La Trobe University]] Graduates
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070106071151/http://mediacentre.dewr.gov.au/mediacentre/MinisterStone Ministerial Website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070202122504/http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?ID=EM6 "The Hon Dr Sharman Stone MP"], [[Australian Parliament House]]
*[http://www.sharmanstone.com/ Personal website]

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