Concetta Anna Fierravanti-Wells is an Australian politician and a member of the Liberal Party.
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Concetta Anna has been a Senator for New South Wales since 2005 and has also served as Minister for International Development and the Pacific in the Turnbull Government from 2016 to 2018.
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells family
Concetta Anna is the daughter of Giuseppe and Antonia Fierravanti, both of whom were born in Calitri, Italy.
Concetta Anna’s father arrived in Australia in 1953 to work at the Port Kembla steelworks, and was joined by his future wife six years later.
Fierravanti-Wells acquired Italian citizenship by descent in 1985, but renounced it in 1994 prior to standing for parliamentary preselection.
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells preselection
Fierravanti-Wells was an unsuccessful candidate for Liberal preselection at the 1994 Warringah by-election, which saw future prime minister Tony Abbott elected to parliament.
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However, she was president of the party’s Italian special branch from 1995 and elected to the state executive in 1996, also serving as a delegate to state council from 1995 and to federal council from 2000.
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells aged care
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells was the shadow minister for ageing for four years, during Tony Abbott’s time as opposition leader.
She has made a detailed submission to the Royal Commission, critical of the government’s attempts to reform the troubled sector.
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells email
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells’s email is; senator.fierravanti-wells@aph.gov.au.
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells resignation letter
On 13 February 2016, Fierravanti-Wells was appointed Minister for International Development and the Pacific following a rearrangement in the First Turnbull Ministry.
However, Fierravanti-Wells resigned from the ministry on 21 August 2018, following the Liberal Party leadership spill that day.
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