[1] After an internship at the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, she moved to New Caledonia in 1972, where she worked as a paediatrician and became a member of the territory's Council of the Order of Physicians.
She also became involved in politics and headed the Union for the Renewal of New Caledonia party for the 1977 elections.
Considered a party of right-wing intelligentsia, it won a single seat in the South constituency, taken by Antier-Lagarde.
After Lellouche was made Secretary of State for European Affairs, Antier became a full member of the National Assembly in July 2009.
She became a member of the Social Affairs Commission,[1] and authored a bill aiming to abolish corporal punishment for children.