Education
At 16 she finished her secondary schooling and attended the Royal College of Music in London, specializing in the cello.
At 16 she finished her secondary schooling and attended the Royal College of Music in London, specializing in the cello.
She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Council since 2005, representing the region of South West. Talbot came from a family active in the Australian Labor Party where politics was actively talked. She spent the next 15 years working as a musician, however she said her life always turned back to her interest in politics.
In 2001 she became the Assistant Secretary of the Labor Party, a position she held until 2005.
lieutenant was in this role that she discovered the importance of engaging ordinary citizens in politics to create a better community, thus it was important to have active and healthy political parties.
While attending Murdoch University in Perth in 1983, she joined the staff as a federal member of parliament, her first formal job in politics. She left her staff roll to become a member of parliament, and later as the first President of the Western Australian branch of the Labor party to be elected by popular ballot in 2008.