Background
Fox is the daughter of Australian children"s author, Member Fox and teacher Malcolm Fox.
Fox is the daughter of Australian children"s author, Member Fox and teacher Malcolm Fox.
Fox attended Blackwood High School in Adelaide"s south and attended the University of Adelaide and the City University, London.
Fox worked as a journalist at the Adelaide Advertiser for three and a half years, traveled to France, where she worked for Elle Online and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, before returning to Adelaide, where she undertook a Graduate. dip in Education, and then worked as a high school teacher of English, French and History at Loreto College, Marryatville. Fox was linked with the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (Schools Development Authority). She subsequently ran in the marginal Liberal seat of Bright at the 2006 South Australian state election against shadow minister Angus Redford, who was attempting to switch from the Legislative Council to the House of Assembly.
In March 2009 Fox became Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier during a ministerial reshuffle in the Rann government.
In April 2010, Fox was appointed Deputy Speaker and the Chairman of Committees in the House of Assembly. In 2011 she was named as the Société Anonyme Transport Services Minister.
She was also appointed as Minister Assisting the Minister for the Arts. In 2014 she was not returned to her seat.
In September 2014 she was appointed to the Lifetime Support Authority.
In January 2015 she was employed by DECD in a high school.
Fox was involved in politics from a young age, handing out Labor how-to-vote cards at the age of 14. At the 2004 federal election, she stood against member Andrew Southcott in the safe Liberal seat of Boothby and achieved a 9.9 percent primary and 2 percent two-party swing.