Pru Goward, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pru Goward

Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner and politician

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1952

Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Profession: writer, politician, civil servant, biographer, journalist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Prudence Jane Goward (born 2 September 1952 in Adelaide), an Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2007 to 2019, representing the seat of Goulburn. She was the New South Wales Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister for Social Housing, from January 2017 to March 2019 in the Berejiklian government, and the Minister for Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, from 2015 until March 2019.
Goward has also previously served as the Minister for Mental Health, Minister for Medical Research, and Assistant Minister for Health between April 2015 and January 2017, and the Minister for Women between 2011 and January 2017, in the second Baird government and the Minister for Planning during 2014 and 2015.
With the first Berejiklian government she returned to Community Services portfolio which she previously held between 2011 and 2014, in the O'Farrell and first Baird governments. Prior to entering politics, Goward served as the Australian Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination with the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.