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Ms Ficarra in the 2020 Australia Day Honours List was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in recognition of her outstanding service to the people and Parliament of New South Wales.

On 28 April 2014, Ms Ficarra stood aside as Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier following implication in a hearing of the Independent Commission Against Corruption that she had solicited a donation to the Liberal Party from a prohibited donor. She denied the allegations.

She was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1995 and was appointed Shadow Minister for the Environment in 1998. In 2007 she became the first woman in the history of the New South Wales Parliament to have served in the Legislative Assembly and then be elected to the Legislative Council. In 2011 upon the election of Barry O'Farrell as Premier Ms Ficarra was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier.

Ms Ficarra was elected to Hurstville City Council in 1980 to become one of few young women in local government at the time. She was later the Deputy Mayor and then Mayor of Hurstville City and served in these roles for 16 years until 1995. During this time she was elected president and later life member of the Australian Local Government Women's Association.

Marie Ann Ficarra OAM (born 25 March 1954) is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2007 to 2015. She was previously a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Georges River, but was defeated during the landslide election of 1999. She was the Shadow Minister for the Environment for the New South Wales Opposition.