Liddy Clark

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Liddy Clark (born 6 November 1953 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an actress and Australian Labor Party politician.

[edit] Acting career

She has various credits in film and television to her name. She is possibly best known for her two roles in the cult series Prisoner. She played child killer Bella Albrecht in 1979 and Sharon Smart, the victim of a crooked religious cult, in 1983.

She was a regular cast member in the series Fire and has also made guest appearances in Matlock Police, The Sullivans, Kingswood Country, A Country Practice, Home and Away and Echo Point.

Film credits include: Mad Dog Morgan, Blue Fin, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Touch and Go, Kitty and the Bagman and Annie's Coming Out.

[edit] Political career

In 2001 she defeated Santo Santoro in the normally safe Liberal seat of Clayfield in the Queensland Legislative Assembly. She still holds the seat, the most marginal in Queensland, and will be contesting it at the 2006 state election.

She was briefly Minister for Indigenous Affairs in the government of Peter Beattie, but resigned following the so-called "Winegate" affair. A bottle of wine was taken aboard a government jet travelling to a "dry" indigenous community in North Queensland. Two of Liddy Clark's staff were moved from their jobs over the affair and following an independent inquiry Liddy Clark was cleared of any wrong doing in the affair. She lost her seat at the 2006 Queensland Election.