Career
Thomson was an economic research officer, ministerial adviser, Implementation Manager with V/Lincolnshire and Executive Officer of Youth Policy Development Council before being elected to the Legislative Council for Melbourne North Province in September 1999. She was Minister for Consumer Affairs 1999–2002 and Minister for Small Business 1999–2005. She was Minister for Information and Communication Technology from February 2002 and Minister for Consumer Affairs from January 2005, until 2006.
Due to the Upper House reforms, her former electorate of Melbourne North Province was abolished.
She was Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier and Parliamentary Secretary for the Arts until the 2010 state election. Thomson was married to federal Labor Member of Parliament Kelvin Thomson and they have two children.
They separated in 2003.
