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| name = Margaret May<br />
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| constituency_MP = [[Division of McPherson|McPherson]]<br />
| parliament = Australian<br />
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| predecessor = [[John Bradford (Australian politician)|John Bradford]]<br />
| successor = [[Karen Andrews]]<br />
| term_start = 3 October 1998<br />
| term_end = 19 July 2010<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1950|6|30}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Ba (town)|Ba, Fiji]]<br />
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| nationality = [[Australia]]n<br />
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| party = [[Liberal Party of Australia]]<br />
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| occupation = Electorate secretary<br />
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'''Margaret Ann May''' (born 30 June 1950), is an Australian politician who was a [[Liberal Party of Australia]] member of the [[Australian House of Representatives]] from October 1998 to July 2010, representing [[Division of McPherson|McPherson]], [[Queensland]].<ref name="Retirement">{{cite news|url=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/another-federal-liberal-mp-to-retire-20090814-el33.html|title=Another federal Liberal MP to retire|last=AAP|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=15 August 2009|date=14 August 2009}}</ref><br />
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May was born in [[Ba (town)|Ba]], [[Fiji]], and was educated at [[Seaforth, New South Wales|Seaforth]] [[TAFE]] College in [[Sydney]]. She was a financial administrator with the [[New South Wales Department of Education]] 1982–88 and an electorate secretary before entering politics.<ref name=pbiog>{{cite web |title= Mrs Margaret May MP, Member for McPherson (Qld) |publisher= [[Parliament of Australia]] |url= http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/biography.asp?id=83B |accessdate= 27 January 2010 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20091005013428/http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/biography.asp?id=83B |archivedate= 5 October 2009 |df= dmy-all }}</ref><br />
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May was elected to the seat of McPherson at the [[1998 Australian federal election|1998 election]]. She defeated her Labor challenger local Councillor Eddy Saroff at the [[2007 Australian federal election|2007 election]] and was subsequently appointed to the Outer Shadow Ministry as Shadow Minister for Ageing until the [[2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election|change in Liberal leadership in December 2009]].<ref name=pbiog/><br />
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On 14 August 2009 she announced that she would retire at the [[2010 Australian federal election|2010 federal election]].<ref name="Retirement" /><br />
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