January Kronberg

Background

Kronberg was born in Melbourne and is married with two children and two stepchildren.

Career

She received a Graduate Diploma of Training and Development in 2004 from the University of Melbourne. She worked in a computer service bureau and in executive search and selection. She was a lecturer in marketing at the Box Hill Institute from 1996 to 2006.

She was re-elected again in November 2010.

On 22 November 2012, The Age newspaper reported criticism of a Victorian state parliamentary ‘Inquiry into Liveability Options in Outer Suburban Melbourne’, of which Kronberg was the inquiry chairperson, as it had just one reference to transport issues – in London. Labor parliamentarian and committee member Natalie Hutchins, the member for Electoral district of Keilor, said the government’s neglect of transport issues was a disgraceful oversight.

"I think it"s a bit of a disgrace in that it doesn"t mention public transport or trains or buses or roads, which is probably one of the most significant issues we"ve heard about with the growing outer suburbs," Ms Hutchins said. In March 2014, amongst speculation that she was being pressured to retire to make way for fellow Liberal Member of Parliament Mary Wooldridge, who was without a seat to contest due to a redistribution that had abolished her former seat of Electoral district of Doncaster, Kornberg announced she would be retiring at the November 2014 state election.

Achievements

• Kronberg was elected to Parliament at the November 2006 election, becoming the only Liberal Party candidate to win the third position on any Upper House ticket.

Views

Quotations: "I think it"s a bit of a disgrace in that it doesn"t mention public transport or trains or buses or roads, which is probably one of the most significant issues we"ve heard about with the growing outer suburbs,".