About Isobel

A life-long sense of community service and social justice led Isobel Redmond to enter politics in 2002 as the State MP representing the people of Heysen in the Adelaide Hills – this was after a long career in law and raising her three children.

Born and raised in the very outskirts of Sydney Isobel’s parents instilled in her and her four siblings a strong work ethic and understanding for people less fortunate than themselves.

Isobel continues to take a great interest in ageing and disability issues as a result of the volunteer work she and her family undertook when she was younger.

Coming from a family of modest means and before university fees were abolished, Isobel worked in the public service to pay her own way while studying with the NSW Barristers Admissions Board at night.

After marrying her American husband Jim and while deciding where they might live, Isobel remembered visiting the Adelaide Hills as part of a three-week bus tour around Australia at the age of 18. She told her friend travelling with her at the time that she would come back and live here one day and she did – Isobel and her husband Jim moved to Stirling.

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