Maralyn Parker

Maralyn Parker is an award-winning education columnist for The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Australia.
Parker taught in primary and high schools in NSW, South Africa and England. She was the NSW Department of Education’s first Information Officer in 1983. She had several books on education published during the late 1980s. She worked as a freelance education journalist for several years before being employed as the Education Columnist for The Daily Telegraph in 1993.
Parker is known for her support for public education in Australia. She believes that school education is particularly underfunded in Australia and that the federal and state governments must seriously reinvest in Australia's public systems. Parker's columns appear weekly in The Daily Telegraph. She also runs a blog on education.
Parker’s awards include the inaugural NSW Professional Teachers Associations Award for Journalism and the Australian College of Educators Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Parker is listed in the Who’s Who of Australian Women.
Personal life
Parker was born in Griffith, New South Wales. Her father Henry Arthur (Harry) Rush was the owner of the Griffith Plaster Works. Her mother Doreen Kitty Rush (née Pfitzner) was an artist, designer and dressmaker, and the Griffith District Commissioner for NSW Girl Guides in the early 1960’s.
Parker attended Griffith North Public School and Griffith High School. She was awarded a teacher’s college scholarship and trained as a teacher at Wagga Teachers College in 1964 and 1965. She did further study at the University of Sydney and the University of Wollongong. She has a Master of Arts (Journalism) from the University of Technology, Sydney.
She has three daughters, Rachel and twins Jessica and Alexandra.

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