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Jennifer Ann Gardiner (born 16 October 1950) is an Australian politician and former Nationals member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1991 to 2015. Early years Gardiner was born in Penola, South Australia. She attended primary school in Victoria. Her secondary education was undertaken in Victoria and then in New South Wales. After leaving school, she obtained a Bachelor of Business through the Mitchell College of Advanced Education in Bathurst, New South Wales, now part of Charles Sturt University. National Party political activity Gardiner commenced her working life as a junior clerk working in a legal office in Tamworth where she played an active role in the Young Australian Country Party – NSW (YACP – NSW) – the NSW youth branch of the Party now known as the Young Nationals. Gardiner worked her way up to become State Secretary of the YACP – NSW and was elected as a delegate to the Central Council of the Australian Country Party – NSW in the mid-1970s. Gardiner moved to Sydney and began work at the New South Wales headquarters of the then Australian Country Party as a research officer working under the leadership of Colonel Bill Ford OBE, general secretary and then as Executive Officer to Charles Blunt, general secretary. She was eventually to become the General Secretary of the NSW Branch of the National Party of Australia between 1984 and 1991 and the first woman to hold that position. During her term as General Secretary of the NSW National Party, at the request of the National Party Federal Leader, Doug Anthony, Gardiner undertook an analysis of the implications of a Hawke Labor Government proposal in 1984 to increase the number of Members in the Australian House of Representatives. The Opposition Coalition was formally opposed to the proposal. Gardiner's analysis indicated that the National Party could benefit from an expanded House and National Party Senators crossed the floor to vote with Labor in support of the motion. Gardiner was also influential in persuading the Liberal Party to avoid three-cornered contests in country NSW seats. During the failed 1987 Joh for Canberra campaign to install Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen as Prime Minister, in a highly unusual move for a paid party official, Gardiner issued a media release critical of the Queensland National Party. Gardiner was general secretary when the NSW National Party achieved its most successful post-WWII outcome at the NSW general elections held on 19 March 1988 when the party won 20 out of 26 seats contested in the Legislative Assembly that swept the Unsworth Labor Government from office. In an unpublished manuscript, Gardiner has written about the history of the NSW Young Nationals. New South Wales state political career Gardiner was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council on 25 May 1991 replacing the Honourable Judy Jakins, MLC. She was re-elected to the Council in both 1999 and 2007 and had the fifth highest quota in both elections. She was number two on the Liberal/Nationals election ticket and since 31 March 2003 was the Deputy Leader of The Nationals in the Legislative Council. In Parliament, she served on the following committees: General Purpose Standing Committee 2 Privileges Committee Procedure Committee Committee on the Independent Commission Against Corruption (2003–2007) Temporary Chair of Committees (2003–2007) Select Committee on Electoral and Political Party Funding (2007–2008) Joint Select Committee Upon Gun Law Reform (1991) that drafted gun control laws On 16 February 2014 Gardiner announced she would be retiring at the 2015 election. Gardiner served on the Advisory Council for Charles Sturt University between 1991 and 1995. References . Discover the Jenny Gardiner popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jenny Gardiner books.
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Something in the Heir
Jenny GardinerHe's a prince with a problem, she's a commoner with a getaway plan.Modernday Prince Adrian of Monaforte has a most oldfashioned problem: his demanding mother wants him wed to her b...
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Throne for a Loop
Jenny GardinerGimme Some Sugar…Sawyer Patterson has never been one to care much about first impressions, except when it comes to royalty, because snagging a palace endorsement could make or brea...
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Anywhere but Here
Jenny GardinerMary Kate Dupree has reached a crossroad in her lifeless life. Literally. While running an errand for her oppressively controlling husband, she encounters a handsome hitchhiker who...
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Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
Jenny GardinerIt's all fun and royal games until somebody's heart gets hurt In his line of work, royal heir Darcy SquiresThornton has always been content playing second fiddle to close frie...
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Hard to Get Lucky
Jenny GardinerNot such a cutie patootie...Alyssa Heyward has held a powerful grudge against Josh "The Mad Tooter" Trumbull for the better part of her life. Not that obsessing over something that...
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Compromising Positions
Erin Delany & Jenny GardinerMercedes Fortunato is thrilled to finally land her dream job, working as a publicist for a U.S. Senator. Until she learns that the creeper Senator only wants her as another notch o...
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Shame of Thrones
Jenny GardinerLocked Lips Sink Ships...Lady Clementine needs a getaway. Badly. The best way to get her mind off of the unexpected loss of her beloved father is to usher her best friend Pippa awa...
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Where the Heart Is
Jenny GardinerReese Larkin had given up on ever going home again, until she realizes that home is the only place she'll ever be able to reclaim what's most important to her. After a call from a ...
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Falling for Mr. No Way In Hell
Jenny GardinerTaking the plunge…Lacy Caldwell’s mermaid gig at a cheesy roadside beach bar provided muchneeded income while she pursues her graduate degree. That is until the beloved owner dies ...
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Hard to Get Over
Jenny GardinerGo hard or go home…After losing her beloved neighbor Violet, Daphne Sweeney realizes her dream when Violet leaves her part ownership of the duplex she shared with her aged friend. ...
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Cabana Boy
Jenny GardinerAll men are not created equal…Fletcher Campbell thought he'd been hired by famous film producer Justine Gaynor to be her righthand man, but quickly learns that she only wants him f...
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Naked Man On Main Street
Jenny GardinerThis collection of humorous and sometimes poignant essays from awardwinning author Jenny Gardiner will make you laugh and maybe bring you to tears. Sometimes compared to Nora Ephro...
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Bad to the Throne
Jenny GardinerSometimes you can let your heir down a little too much…When wildchild Prince Alexander goes on a naked bender in a Vegas swimming pool, cocktail waitress Andi McDonough decides to ...
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Blue-Blooded Romeo
Jenny GardinerThis devil has her blood boiling…Stella Whitaker’s never been one to mince words. But on a flight to Paris, instead of sending a seatchat message to her friend about the guy who cu...
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A Court Gesture
Jenny GardinerHard to get never felt so good…Prince Luca of Monaforte is a player. Or so the tabloids claim. Rarely is he seen without a gorgeous, tall, blonde celebrity on his arm, and never ha...
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Silver Spoon Romeo
Jenny Gardiner…Who needs a spoon when he’s so finger lickin’ good?Celebrity TV show host Sophie Pellegrino’s life needs a little kickstart. Watching her best friend fall headoverheels for a hand...
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Hard to Get
Jenny GardinerShrimply irresistible…Lola Quigley can't believe her good luck when she wins a spot on the Food Channel's popular Shop till you Drop. The show features amateur foodies competing to...
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Lady Killer
Jenny GardinerDon't go bacon my heart…Animal lover Coco Lovingston wants to recharge her soul after a bruising attempt to succeed as an actress in Los Angeles, so she returns home to Bristol, Mo...
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Hard to Get By
Jenny GardinerHard up…Sunshine Ferguson had finally gotten her Zen on. After years of being an uptight staffer for a hotheaded senator, she'd been forced to switch careers, changed her name to s...
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Big O Romeo
Jenny GardinerOh, oh, ohhh, what a feeling!Allie Ledbetter is outstanding in her field. Well, sort of. After all, she stands in a lot of fields as she releases her peregrine falcon to help fend ...
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Falling for Mr. Sometimes
Jenny GardinerIf this truck's arockin' don't come aknockin'Jamie Lundquist had gone soft. More like squishy. Usually a lean, athletic surfer girl, the stress of her newlydivorced parents dueling...
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Blue Collar Romeo
Jenny GardinerThings are heating up under this blue collar…Gisele Hornsby can’t believe her good fortune when she’s invited to attend the royal wedding of Prince Luca of Monaforte with her broth...
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Love Is in the Heir
Jenny GardinerYa gotta hand it to him…When the teenaged Duchess Pippa Grimaldi walked in on her best friend's brother Prince Christopher in a particularly private moment, she about died of embar...
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Accidentally on Purpose
Erin Delany & Jenny GardinerSuccessful Washington, DC photographer Lucy McSweeney has given up on looking for Mr. Right. With her biological time clock pounding a veritable drum beat, she's decided all she re...
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Red Hot Romeo
Jenny GardinerLove the wine you’re with…Alessandro Romeo is burned out after finally extricating himself from a nearly yearlong relationship with a hottempered Italian model who set fire to his ...
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Falling for Mr. Wrong
Jenny GardinerIf lusting after him is wrong, she doesn’t want to be right…Harper Landry sometimes feels like she’s turned into a professional dater. Which might not be such a bad job if it didn’...
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Slim to None
Jenny GardinerFrom bestselling author Jenny Gardiner: Abbie Jennings is Manhattan's top food critic until her expanding waistline makes staying incognito at restaurants impossible. Her cover blo...
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Skirt Chaser
Jenny GardinerSometimes you'd rather be caught with your pants down than your skirt up…Zoey Richards needs to get far away from her past. Following a broken engagement and an earful of Itoldyous...
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Falling for Mr. Maybe
Jenny GardinerIf it swells, ride it…Georgie Childress moved to Verity Beach to lick her wounds after her controlling fiancé pulled a runner mere weeks before the wedding. Jobless and desperate t...
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Falling for Mr. Right
Jenny GardinerHow could a man so perfectly wrong be so completely right?Maddie Henderson is the trivia queen of Verity Beach, and she's got a shelf full of trophies to prove it. Word's gotten ar...
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Black Sheep Romeo
Jenny GardinerOn cloud wine…Sometimes trouble seems to find Matteo Romeo whether he seeks it out or not. Long regarded as the black sheep of the famed Romeo winemaking family, he’s hardly surpri...
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Sleeping with Ward Cleaver
Jenny GardinerSleeping with Ward Cleaver is the funny yet poignant story of a woman at a crossroads in life, who years earlier married a man who swept her off her feet, but now finds that her Mr...
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Bird Dog
Jenny GardinerIf you can't be with the one you love, hug the one you're with…Elise Jackson is going through the motions of yet another wacky bachelorette party scavenger hunt, counting the minut...
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Bite Me - A Parrot, a Family, and a Whole Lot of Flesh Wounds
Jenny GardinerAuthor's note: Dear readers: this is a reissue of my memoir "Winging It: A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot Who's Determined to Kill Me". I have always wanted to offer...
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Red Carpet Romeo
Jenny GardinerLook who’s grown up now…Valentina Romeo loved a romantic wedding, and couldn’t wait to serve as an attendant in her favorite cousin Prince Luca of Monaforte’s upcoming nuptials. ...
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Boy Toy
Jenny GardinerDoes this ring make my ass look big?Izzy Strong has grown weary of the loser guys of L.A., having ditched the latest, a guy who couldn't seem to look up from his ESPN app to conduc...