Michaelia Cash

Michaelia Clare Cash (born 19 July 1970) is an Australian politician who has been a senator for Western Australia since 2008. A member of the Liberal Party, she has served as the leader of the Opposition in the Senate since 2025 and served as a minister in the Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison governments from 2013 to 2022. As well as being Attorney-General in the Morrison government, Cash also served as Minister for Industrial Relations from 2021 to 2022, and Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business and Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education from 2018 to 2021. Previously, she served in the Turnbull government as the Minister for Jobs and Innovation from 2017 to 2018 and Minister for Employment and Minister for Women from 2015 to 2017.