Political Career
Hirsh worked as a psychologist for the Victorian Department of Education from 1980 to 1985, when she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Wantirna.
Hirsh was re-elected at the 1988 election, after which she was promoted to the position of Government Whip, but made an unsuccessful attempt to switch to the seat of Knox in 1992. After losing her seat, she returned to private practice as a psychologist. She made two unsuccessful attempts to move to federal politics, as the Labor candidate for the federal seat of La Trobe at the 1996 election and 1998 election. She taught at the Mountain District Learning Centre, in addition to her practice, from 1996 to 1998, before giving both away in 1999 and taking on a position at the Chisholm Institute of TAFE.
In the Labor landslide victory at the 2002 state election, Hirsh won an upset victory in the Legislative Council seat of Silvan Province, which had previously been thought to be a safe Liberal seat. In 2003, she was elected as the chair of the parliamentary Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee.
She did not contest the 2006 election.
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