Amber-Jade Sanderson is an Australian Labor Party politician who is the member for Morley in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of Western Australia. Since 21 December 2021, she has been Minister for Health and Minister for Mental health. From 19 March 2021 to 21 December 2021, she was Minister for Environment, Minister for Climate Action and Minister for Commerce. She rose to prominence when she chaired the Joint Select Committee on End of Life Choices.

Early life and career

Amber-Jade Sanderson was born on 25 October 1976 in Mascot, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. Her parents were Ten Pound Poms who had immigrated from England to Perth as teenagers during the 1970s. She spent her early childhood in Bayswater, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth. When she was about five years old, her parents separated. She moved to London with her mother in 1986, and started living in England for the most part over the following 14 years. She attended eight or nine different schools in total, including St Columba's School, Bayswater Primary School and John Forrest Secondary College in Morley.