11 Facts About Wendy Machin

Wendy Machin was later president of the National Roads and Motorists' Association from 2008 to 2014.

Wendy Machin founded her company Machin Consulting in the same year.

The bulk of its territory was merged into Port Macquarie at the 1991 state election, and Wendy Machin successfully transferred there.

Wendy Machin was Deputy Speaker and became the first woman to chair the New South Wales Parliament.

Wendy Machin appointed Minister for Consumer Affairs in the coalition government of John Fahey on 26 May 1993.

Wendy Machin was appointed shadow minister for Consumer Affairs, Roads and Fisheries until she resigned from Parliament on 28 August 1996 after the birth of her second child.

Wendy Machin's resignation prompted the 1996 Port Macquarie by election, won by then National Party member Rob Oakeshott.

Wendy Machin became the President of Save the Children Fund NSW in 1996, remaining in that position until 2000, as well as serving on the National Council for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.

Between 1997 and 2000 Wendy Machin was the Deputy Chair of the Australian Republican Movement.

Wendy Machin was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in February 1998, elected by a voluntary ballot run by the Australian Electoral Commission.

In 2005, Wendy Machin was elected to the board of the NRMA to represent the Coghlan region, which stretches from the Hunter River to the Queensland border.