Career
Gibbs was elected to the Australian Senate for Queensland in 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party. Her first term began on 1 July 1996, she was not re-elected at the Australian federal election, 2001, and her term expired on 30 June 2002. Gibbs" husband Bob Gibbs had been a Queensland ALP Minister for all but two years between 1989 and 1999 and had a stint as Queensland ALP President in 1995.
